Gia Carangi was born on 29 January 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Blondie: Atomic (1980). She died on 18 November 1986 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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]