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I had it all: cars, girlfriends, modelling career  — and a secret addiction

The British male supermodel Paul Sculfor was huge in the Noughties, but behind the scenes he was battling an addiction that nearly destroyed his life

The model and mindset coach Paul Sculfor
The model and mindset coach Paul Sculfor
The Sunday Times

It should have been a high point in the supermodel Paul Sculfor’s extraordinary life. He was 33, at the wheel of a Ferrari, a blonde model at his side. “It was the car of my dreams, the girl of my dreams, but I felt completely hollow,” he recalls. “I thought, I’m so unhappy. I’m doing what I think should be me and it doesn’t work.”

This was 20 years ago and Sculfor, the first man to earn the “supermodel” tag, was ubiquitous. The boy from Upminster, glowered over Times Square as the face of Banana Republic, shot by Bruce Weber. His full lips featured in every glossy in the world, puckered up for Christian Dior Tendre Poison. His ripped torso and extraordinary bone structure won