Georgina Cooper died 'after suddenly falling ill on holiday': Supermodel, 46, passed away in hospital while on trip to Kos with her husband just months after they got married, friend reveals

British supermodel Georgina Cooper - an icon of ‘Cool Britannia’ and a person of Kate Moss - has tragically died astatine the property of 46 connected a Greek land conscionable months aft she married, MailOnline tin uncover today.

Tributes person poured successful from chap catwalk stars including Jade Parfitt, Erin O'Connor, Jodie Kidd and Helena Christensen, who called her a 'ray of light' whose 'achievements successful the manufacture were huge'.

Georgina was staying successful Kos astatine the Marianna edifice apartments with her hubby erstwhile she was taken sick connected October 21 and unit called an ambulance.

She was initially taken to the island's main infirmary but her information was truthful superior doctors arranged for an aerial ambulance to alert her to Crete which has amended facilities.

Staff rushed her to intensive attraction wherever she stayed for 5 days earlier passing distant and her assemblage was flown backmost to England past week.

A root connected Kos said: 'She has been coming present connected vacation for much than 20 years. Her parents are friends of the edifice owners and she is simply a bully person of theirs.

'She came present successful July for her honeymoon and she came again successful October for a holiday. She was taken sick the time earlier she was expected to alert home.

'Georgina loved Greece and was ever coming present but she had wellness problems and was sick erstwhile earlier erstwhile she was here.

'But this was each precise abrupt and it is simply a daze for each of us. She was talking astir coming backmost successful May due to the fact that she wanted to find determination to unrecorded and possibly commencement a business. It's truthful sad.'

Her erstwhile agent, Dean Goodman told MailOnline today: ‘She loved Greece and told maine that she was going backmost with her caller hubby - but she has tragically died determination a fortnight ago.

‘Georgina had been unwell during Covid and had developed immoderate wellness problems and had been successful and retired of hospital. But she had plans for the future. She had conscionable joined and was looking guardant to her life. Everybody is devastated. She was a genuine superstar’.

Georgina was spotted by a modelling bureau astatine the property of 13 and her archetypal large breakthrough came erstwhile she appeared successful a Bon Jovi music-video erstwhile she was 15.

She past became one of the faces of the 1990s and was dubbed London's 'original spread toothed girl', working arsenic a muse for celebrated lensman Corinne Day, the biggest names successful the satellite of manner and appearing connected the screen of US Vogue and The Face.

George, arsenic she was known to friends, discontinue the catwalk to absorption connected raising her lad Sonny. She astir precocious worked successful hospitality successful Kent. 

Friend and chap exemplary Jade Parfitt told MailOnline: 'Her friends and household are perfectly devastated, Georgina was a ray of light, a precise fashionable exemplary who was riotous fun, ever laughing and being naughty successful each the champion ways. We each wanted to bent retired with George backstage. Her achievements successful the manufacture were huge'.

Georgina had walked down the aisle adjacent her location successful Maidstone, Kent, with the reception successful the section pub successful aboriginal June. 

The mates past honeymooned successful Kos, sharing a acceptable of blessed pictures from their wedding connected the island's Facebook assemblage site.

But she had returned to the Greek land astatine the extremity of October, wherever she tragically fell ill.

Mr Goodman added successful an Instagram tribute: 'I'm successful full shock, and talked to her not agelong agone to conscionable up aft she conscionable got married. 

'She was the archetypal spread toothed girl! I volition miss her immensely, rip successful peace, georgie girl, I volition ne'er hide you and ever emotion you, spot you connected the different side'.

It is not known however she died. In caller years Georgina had raised important amounts of wealth for assorted charities including for radical with liver and lung illnesses.

Her sister-in-law Tracey Wallace has described Georgina’s decease arsenic a ‘tragedy’. 

Ms Wallace, 45, said: ‘My spouse Shane was Georgina’s brother. It’s specified a tragedy. I don’t cognize what to accidental truly different than it’s precise sad.’ 

George was adjacent to chap Londoner Kate Moss and modelled for galore large British brands, including Alexander McQueen, Burberry and Stella McCartney.

The mother-of-one was besides a regular astatine shows for manner houses including Armani and Versace - and featured connected the screen of manner bibles including Vogue and The Face.

She said successful 2018: 'After I had my lad I conscionable couldn’t carnivore to permission him unsocial and I wanted to beryllium determination for him. I tried to proceed modeling but it broke my bosom erstwhile I had to permission him for work. 

'I focused connected modeling assignments successful London but my beingness was astatine a crossroads and I decided that Sonny came first'.

Friends and household are 'heartbroken' implicit her death. 

Her person Jade Parfitt, besides a model, shared the tragic quality of her passing connected Instagram. Jodie Kidd and Helena Christensen past shared achromatic hearts successful tribute. 

Supermodel and writer Erin O'Connor besides posted a moving connection for her friend, praising her bravery.

She said: 'Gorgeous George.... Shocked and devastated to perceive you are gone.

'You were an incredibly benignant and comic human-being, Georgina. I/we each admired and loved you truthful overmuch for the warmth, generosity and gentle mischief you brought to the world.

'Many years person passed since we (our small 90’s britannia pack) hung retired unneurotic during the huffy carousel epoch known arsenic ‘show season’ - but, you ALWAYS stuck retired to maine for keeping it existent and being arrogant of who you were.

'What an almighty beingness you led.. Full of tone and endless, inspiring humility. You volition ne'er beryllium forgotten. Phenomenal woman, wife, daughter, mum and friend; my thoughts are with your family, particularly your beauteous boy.

'Hugs and condolences to all.. RIP brave heart'.

George entered a modelling contention erstwhile she was 13 and ne'er looked back.

She said successful 2018: 'I got into modeling erstwhile I was 13 erstwhile my mum entered maine successful the Elite Look of The Year contention successful 1992—I placed 3rd successful the competition—it was an astonishing acquisition and it made my mum and dada precise arrogant of me. 

She went on: 'I started moving with Corinne Day erstwhile I was 15. I went to her level to conscionable her and Tara Hill. 

Corinne truly loved my look—she peculiarly loved the spread successful my teeth—and she liked my property too. 

'The pursuing week we did our archetypal sprout for Ray Gun magazine. It was an astonishing time—we each had truthful overmuch fun—and Corrine was superb to enactment with.

'I was truthful young astatine the clip I didn’t truly recognize however influential the enactment we were doing was until I got older and radical would compliment maine connected the enactment we did together'.

But aft struggling to equilibrium having a babe and her modelling, she decided to ore connected her family.

'I’m conscionable a South London girl who enjoyed traveling the world', Ms Cooper said erstwhile asked astir her career. 

But successful a informing to others she said: 'If could spell backmost and springiness myself 1 portion of proposal it would beryllium to invest. I’d besides archer each the caller models starting retired successful this manufacture to bash the aforesaid happening too'.