Model Kate Moss has said she does not miss her hometown of Croydon in south London. Pictures: PA/Google Street View Kate Moss has admitted it "wasn't easy" growing up in Croydon. Speaking to Reader's Digest, Kate said she doesn't long for her home in south London where she spent most of her childhood. The model, 47, said she and her friends would hang around Surrey Street Market looking for style inspiration, before she was famously discovered at the age of 14. Kate said she "never had a plan" for the first days of her fashion career and soon had to learn to be "fussier" with her modelling jobs, after struggling to manage her hectic schedule.