LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British Museum plans to display a statue of supermodel Kate Moss that it bills as the largest gold statue built since ancient Egypt.
The statue of Kate Moss will be displayed in the British Museum in a gallery holding anicent Greek sculpture.





Called "Siren," the statue will be part of a group of major sculptures by leading British artists to go on display at the museum in October, the museum announced.
The museum says the artist, Marc Quinn, claims it's the largest gold statue since ancient Egypt.
His previous work included the marble sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which appeared on a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
The Kate Moss statue, weighing 50kg, will be displayed in a gallery of the museum that houses ancient Greek sculpture. The museum calls it a "fitting setting" for the statue of Moss, "interacting with the great Greek beauties that surround it."
Moss, whose slight frame was at the forefront of the waif look in the mid-1990s, is now nearly as well known for her celebrity lifestyle as her modeling career.
The one-time girlfriend of British rocker Pete Doherty is a tabloid newspaper and celebrity magazine favorite, and now dates Kills guitarist Jamie Hince.
She has recently mixed her modeling work with designing collections for the British clothing giant, Topshop.
Other artists exhibiting include Damien Hirst, who most recently created a $100 million diamond-covered skull, and Angel of the North creator Anthony Gormley.
The exhibit is expected to run from October 4 through January 25, 2009.

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Not mentioned in this article was the statue's incredible attention to detail, down to Ms. Moss's most minute features.

Not only are her nose and eyes perfectly sculpted, but a smattering of finely crushed diamond sits precariously inside one nostril and each gaunt thigh is pocked with tiny needle jabs.

Why? That's all I want to know...why?

Did she cure cancer? feed starving children? create jobs for thousands of people? fight segregation and racism?

No, she is one of the fortunate ones that God happened to gift with a beautiful face and body (that she nearly destroyed by damn near starving herself to death in the name of fashion, which, incidentally, exacerbates the body image issues in our society). So, because she's beautiful, and has made a fortune based on essentially nothing but her looks, we now have a giant statue of her to gaze upon. I'm actually surprised that she doesn't want it merely gold plated over paper mache' so that the world won't say, "OMG! 50kg!"

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Ok... Now I have half a bottle of Pepto-Bismol in me I can comment.

She is not "beautiful", just has a pretty face and is really fucking skinny. That's why all those misogynistic homosexual fashion designers love to torture normal humans by naming her an impossible standard of "beauty".

When I see her I want to force-feed her bacon double cheeseburgers and pour milkshakes into a tube through her nose to her stomach.

My standard of beautiful? Alicia Machado fits the bill a whole lot better.... or at least she's not rattling around in it right, Kid?

I couldn't turn that down.

There's no way.

Hopefully I'd be able to convince my wife to work it out in counseling or something, but I'd HAVE to take that opportunity.

Okay, I had to google image search her...
yup...she's gorgeous.

but I don't think she deserves a statue either... what has she done? I guess I'm taking this opportunity to bitch about our society in general and our priorities. Why do the beautiful get our attention rather than those who are intelligent and using thier gifts for the good of all? Why can't those people be celebrated rather than society always feting the superficial?

Oh, I didn't say anything about either of them deserving any statues.... and I totally agree on how superficial our society has become.

*sigh*

I tried to come up with an example of someone deserving a statue... couldn't think of anyone alive who does, and some of the living-impaired who might qualify, well... I'll not say anything so as not to offend.

I think there are probably plenty of people still living who deserve statues... The teachers who convince kids to stay in school, even though our common urban culture works its damnedest to lure them away. The people who volunteer in soup kitchens and shelters, even though they may have a comfortable home waiting for them. Firemen, police officers, nurses... There are plenty of people out there who deserve our respect but rarely get it.

Homer: Oh, one thing I'm good at and I can't do it any more.
Marge: Homey, you're good at lots of things.
Homer: Like what?
Marge: Like snuggling?
Homer: Yeah. But none of my friends can watch me.

You would have thought they would do this for Diana
She was the peoples princess and did a whole lot of good for the world

Yes, they do... although I think most would prefer to not have a statue of them erected.

Sheeyeah, right. The Queen would have FITS. She'd sooner see a gold statue made of one of her corgis.

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Yes lets have a staute of a heroin junkie who is talentless and olny makes money cause she cant put clothes on and take them of and walk whoop de do, How about Princess DI , Margaret Thatcher , Mother Teresa,AMelia Earhart,Betsey Ross,Rosa Parks, all women who stood for something and did good things for the better of others. The only thing that comes to mind when poeple Mention Kate Moss is crack whore who dated Johnny Depp.

All I'm saying is, she's not a healthy looking girl. IMO, not much to look at although (I guess???) she's an accomplished model or something?

Don't know, don't really care either. Next topic.

A detailed sculpture of my nuts would attract more attention.

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For one brief, shining moment, I had a vagina joke to make out of that... And then it was gone.

Maybe the statue is one big "Just say no" ad campaign.