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Child in a candy store?

After years of being thought a snooty freeloader, Tara is desperate to be liked. Therapy allows her to talk easily about her “shame” and feelings of inadequacy. But she doesn’t do solemn for long. Brightening up, she flashes the mischievous look and Cheshire-cat grin familiar from the gossip columns and off she goes, reciting one of her (rather witty) poems. “Even now, everyone thinks I must be on speedballs, but I’m not,” she says, proudly displaying the newly reconstructed nose made out of cartilage from her ear and skin from her scalp. The operation was carried out last August, after some terrifying pictures of her concave nose appeared in the papers. She claims they owe more to Photoshop's ingenuity than to her nonexistent septum, but she’s not denying that she needed the op. "I wish I’d had it done five years ago,” she says wistfully, “then people couldn’t say I must be on something. My doctor says if I ever use [cocaine], it will collapse again - and he won’t repeat the operation.”...

The It Girls – “posh, rich, society girls”, as she puts it – provided endless pictures and column inches. Manufacturers showered her with cars, dresses, shoes, perfume and holidays. “I was like a child in a candy store,” she says. “I just said: ‘Wow, thanks’. I didn’t know it wasn’t done to accept freebies. I was only 23 and very naive; I didn’t realize people expected something in return.”