Nonude Junior Model

Carangi is thought to be one of the first famous women to die of AIDS. Carangi was smallest preteen models in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the third and youngest child of Joseph Carangi, a restaurant owner, and Kathleen Adams, a homemaker. She had two older brothers. Her father is Italian, and her mother is of Irish and Welsh ancestry. Joseph and Kathleen had an unstable, violent marriage, and Kathleen abandoned the family when Carangi was eleven years old. Though she associated with the lesbian community, she did not want to take up "the accepted lesbian style". She was a favorite model of various fashion photographers, including Francesco Scavullo, Arthur Elgort, Joseph Petrellis, Richard Avedon, Denis Piel, Marco Glaviano, and Chris von Wangenheim.