Gia Carangi(1960-1986)

Was blacklisted from modeling because fashion editors discovered track marks on her body. At twenty-six, she became one of the first women in America to die of AIDS.

It kind of creeps up on you, in a world that's, you know, none that anyone will ever know, except someone that has been there. [on her drug abuse during her ABC 20/20 (1978) interview in the early 1980s]