Kate Moss statue 'largest since ancient Egypt'

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.

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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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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?