The model, who rarely gives interviews, spoke about the pressures she was under and how for many years she had no-one 'to take care of' her, apart from the spell she spent dating Hollywood star Johnny Depp.
She told Vanity Fair magazine how uncomfortable she felt while working on a shoot for style magazine The Face with photographer Corinne Day which helped to propel her to fame.
Vulnerable: Kate Moss has revealed she suffered a nervous breakdown after being asked to straddle Marky Mark in the infamous Calvin Klein campaign
'I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird,' she said.
'But they were like "If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again". So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it.'
Moss, 38, said she was not happy with her 'boobs' and even made the only man on the photoshoot turn his back while the pictures were being taken.
Following in her fashionable footsteps: Kate Moss's daughter matches her supermodel mum in fur-trimmed boots on sunny day out
BLOGS OF THE DAY: ''Heroin chic' Kate never took drugs'
The supermodel claimed her mental health suffered while working on a campaign for Calvin Klein in the early 1990s.
'I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts,' Moss said.
It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it. I couldn't get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die.'
The original: Seductive Sixties siren Brigitte Bardot in a scene of the film 'Les Femmes' from 1969
She went on: 'It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. There's a massive pressure to do what you have to do.'
Moss said Depp came to her aid during their four-year relationship, but following their split she said there was 'years and years of crying'.
She told interviewer James Fox in Vanity Fair's December issue: 'I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.'
Now Kate has few qualms string-vest to cover her modesty, heavy eyeliner and her hair tousled, Miss Moss pouts in the manner of former French model and actress Brigitte Bardot.
The interview is accompanied by a striking image of Kate, 38, in a series of photographs for the magazine's December issue.
Mother daughter duo: Kate was seen with her daughter on a visit to a farm house last weekend
Kate, who has a nine-year-old daughter Grace from a previous relationship, is now happily married to Jamie Hince, guitarist with Indie rock band The Kills.
The pair now live in London’s leafy Highgate area and Miss Moss has reportedly cut back on her partying in order to try for a baby with Mr Hince.
In her new autobiography Kate Moss distances herself from the term 'heroin chic, saying she never touched the drug.
The nickname was given to Kate in 1993 and sparked a trend where young women were desperate to copy her look.
However despite being branded as one, Kate Moss says she was never a user and was given the nickname because people thought she looked like she took heroin.
'If I was anorexic or if I was on heroin, maybe I would have been a bit more "Oh dear!",' she told the Daily Mirror.
'But I wasn't
any of those things that they were painting me to be.
A friend of Miss Moss – who is known for her wild antics and former drug-use - previously said : 'Kate has made no secret among her circle that she’d love to have a baby with Jamie.'
'There’s no doubt in my mind that the prospect of another child is a massive motivation for her to clean up her act.
'She eats like a horse now, too, while back in her catwalk days she could easily "forget" to have lunch and dinner.
'She’s still Kate, but she’s somehow different. It’s a change for the better, if you ask me.'
Vanity Fair's December 2012 issue is on sale from Friday.
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