Kate King Talks Model Weight In Randall Slavin Images For Ocean Drive September 2015

Like so many females of every size and at every age, model Kate King has been the focus of a running commentary about her looks. Kate hits hard on this topic in her cover story for Ocean Drive Magazine’s September issue. Lensed by Randall Slavin, Kate is styled by Garth Condit in the fall collections of Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Altuzarra and more.

“From the time I was really young, for as long as I can remember, I was teased; I was that kid who was ostracized,” says King, who moved to Naples, Florida, at age 11, from Mississauga, Ontario, a Canadian city west of Toronto. “There was a group of boys that was really mean to me. The boys would insult me, call me ‘celery stalk,’” she recalls. “I stood up for myself by yelling back. It didn’t really torture me or anything like that; I had a really happy childhood. I don’t feel bad for myself. I kind of feel bad for them. It made me a stronger person—I let people’s comments bounce off me.”

Letting the comments bounce was more difficult when Kate weighed in at no more than 100 pounds on her 5’10” frame and was scouted in Manhattan at age 16.

” … I was tiny,” she says. “But I had an agent who said, ‘You need to lose weight from your hips.’ I was 16 and didn’t know how to process that. It kind of blew my mind. I knew it was outrageous.”