Jodie Kidd has admitted it was ‘totally wrong’ to be ‘drinking champagne and smoking cigarettes’ with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell at the age of just 16 at the start of her modelling career.

The model, 46, burst onto the fashion scene as a teenager, after being spotted on a beach in Barbados by photographer Terry O’Neil, and fronted campaigns for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Chloe.

Three years after suffering a horrific panic attack during a catwalk at 19-years-old, Jodie quit the industry all together, eventually moving from London to her hometown in West Sussex.

As she looked back on her wild days on the catwalk with Kate, 51, and Naomi, 54, Jodie said it’s ‘completely different’ compared to now.

Reflecting on her glittering modelling career on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong, It’s Right podcast, she said: ‘Nowadays it’s completely different.

‘But [when I was modelling] backstage all you had was champagne and it was very glamorous.

‘Big characters from Naomi running and strutting around to the designers to Kate, incredible characters.

‘And then everyone just drinking champagne and smoking cigarettes. 

‘I mean, I look back at it and it was very cool, but totally wrong for a 16-year-old girl to be doing that.’

Earlier this week, Jodie revealed that she has been stuck in bed for three days after being wiped out by the flu. 

She snapped a makeup free selfie and pulled a sad face as she shared an update to her Instagram Story. 

Jodie looked worlds away from her usual glamorous self as she laid in bed with her unbrushed hair. 

She wrote: ‘Oh lord as anyone else been hit by the flu. I’m day three in bed and I can’t move, this one is strong. 

‘Let me know if you have any home remedies.’ 

Elsewhere, Jodie recently claimed ‘men are better than women in certain things’ and that ‘we have to get over’ the idea that the sexes are ‘completely equal’. 

The model offered her thoughts on equality as she discussed motorsports on the Who We Are Now podcast with Richard Hammond and his daughter Izzy. 

The trio were discussing Formula 1 when Richard asked Izzy, 23: ‘What is it about racing that appeals to you as a young gal? The drivers are all men showing off…’ 

This prompted Jodie to interject, as she stated: ‘I think we’ve really got to get over this whole thing that we are completely all equal. Men are better than women in certain things.’

Taken aback by her comments, Richard was quick to comment: ‘Jodie Kidd said that not me!’ as Jodie quipped: ‘Am I going to be cancelled?’ 

Yet she then doubled down on her remarks as she continued: ‘It is just a fact of life. 

‘Every now and then you will get an amazing freak woman that will come, and I promise you there will be a woman competing in F1 soon.’ 

In response, Izzy reasoned: ‘I think it’s all about accessibility. As long as everyone has the same access to it, then it’s fine if the blokes are better at it.’

She added: ‘There almost needs to be a way of not thinking of them as men and women, they’re just drivers. 

‘It doesn’t matter if it’s a man or woman, as long as they have the same access to it, which like you said, I don’t think they do at the moment.’ 

Jodie went on to note that the motor racing wasn’t the only male-dominated industry, adding: ‘I  think men just might prefer that area traditionally. There might be some women who come along.’ 

Jodie got into motor racing in 2003 when she was asked by a friend to sign up for the Gumball Rally and shortly afterwards began her racing career after she completed the fastest lap on Top Gear at the time.