Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there lived a young girl whose hair made of gold.

The people in the village saw her, they said,

oh, how beautiful she is is and they showed her a beautiful

house on beautiful planet Mars and they said come live here forever and the young girl said oh Mars is a planet where life is different, clean and pretty, but how do you get there?

Where do you find a taxi? Do you take a bus? And how do you know you're there when you're there. But the people in

the village were very poor and every night they crept into the house where the

girl slept. They cut off a piece of her golden hair and they sold it for money.

She'll never notice, they said. And soon all the gold was gone from her head. And the people said,

oh, she's not beautiful at all,

and they took her from the beautiful house.

They drove her into the street.

She went away and she never came back.

Some people became hungry again,

and they went back to the beautiful house,

looking for gold.

But there is no one there.

Her face graced the cover of Vogue and Cosmopolitan dozens of times.

She represented brands like Dior, Versace, Armani, and Eve St. Laurent.

She was photographed by some of the world's greatest photographers,

including Francesco Scavullo and Richard Avedon.

She popularized the concept of a single name long before Madonna, and she grew up in the great northeast. That's Northeast Philadelphia.

Gia Marie Karangi moved to New York City in 1978 when she was barely 18 years old to pursue a career in modeling.

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