British Mannequin Georgina Cooper Dies at 46

British mannequin Georgina Cooper died on the Greek island of Kos. She was 46.

The mannequin’s associates, Jade Parfitt and Erin O’Connor confirmed her loss of life on Thursday, Nov. 8, through Instagram. The Every day Mail reviews she died from a blood-brain hemorrhage because of lengthy COVID.

Her agent, Dean Goodman, advised the outlet she “tragically died [in Greece] a fortnight in the past.” 

“Georgina had been unwell throughout Covid and had developed some well being issues and had been out and in of hospital,” Goodman continued. “However she had plans for the longer term. She had simply married and was wanting ahead to her life. Everyone is devastated. She was a real famous person.” 

Cooper fell unwell on the Greek island and was taken to the island’s fundamental hospital. As soon as her situation worsened she was flown through air ambulance to Crete. She remained within the ICU for 5 days earlier than she died. Her physique was flown again to England the week of Oct. 28.

Cooper was a well-liked mannequin who rose to fame through the “Cool Britannia” wave within the Nineties. She is greatest identified for her gapped entrance tooth. Her modeling profession kicked off at 13, when her mom entered her into the Elite Look of the Yr contest in 1992, the place she got here in third place. There, she was noticed and finally signed by Premier Mannequin Administration. (The company’s clientele included Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell.) 

“She was a walk-in and he or she was a lot enjoyable. When she was younger, she made some huge cash and he or she had this very edgy streak that was of the time. Everybody discovered the hole between her tooth fairly superb,” former mannequin and Premier Mannequin Administration proprietor Carole White recalled, per WWD.

At 15, she appeared in a Bon Jovi music video. That very same 12 months, she started a working relationship with the late famend photographer Corinne Day. Ultimately, she discovered herself part of the group of “edgy” London fashions that included Jade Parfitt, Erin O’Connor and Kate Moss.

“I used to be so younger on the time I didn’t actually perceive how influential the work we have been doing was till I bought older and other people would praise me on the work we did collectively,” she stated in Corinne Day’s documentary Diary, per WWD.

Cooper modeled for British and American Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar U.S., i-D Journal and The Guardian’s Observer Journal. “She was very anti-fashion with this actual breath of recent air and a extremely nice mannequin,” former Elle U.Ok. editor Anne-Marie Curtis advised WWD.

Designer Markus Lupfer stated that Cooper had a “lighthearted vitality [that[] made each runway really feel like a celebration,” including, “Her spirit, type, heat, and vitality shall be deeply missed by us all.”

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Cooper gave beginning to her son, Sonny, and stop vogue within the early 2000s. “I attempted to proceed modeling, however it broke my coronary heart once I needed to depart him for work. I centered on modeling assignments in London, however my life was at a crossroads, and I made a decision that Sonny got here first,” she advised The Cultural Omnivore.

Ultimately, she labored as a midwife after which within the hospitality trade. She additionally labored for the British pub chain Fox & Goose, in line with her Fb.

In June 2024, she married Nigel Smith at her house in Maidstone, Kent.

She is survived by her husband and son.