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 age 26, 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]
