Kim McLagan
British model (1948-2006)
Kim McLagan (born Maryse Elizabeth Patricia Kerrigan; 30 December 1948 – 2 August 2006) was a British model during the 1960s. She was married to the Who's Keith Moon from 1966 to 1975, and to the Small Faces' and Faces' Ian McLagan from 1978 to her death.
Early life
Kerrigan, known as "Patsy" during her youth, was born in Leicester, but moved to Malaya (now Malaysia) at the age of three months when her father, Bill, started work managing a rubber and coconut plantation. She recalled spending most of her childhood being looked after by her nanny, and consequently learned to speak Malay at the same time as English. At the age of seven, she briefly spent time in England before living in Uganda and Tanganyika, both for two years each. By this time, her parents were concerned about her education, so she was enrolled in an Irish Catholic convent school in Bray, Wicklow. She had an unhappy experience there and attempted to run away on several occasions, before settling in Bournemouth at the end of 1963.
After starting work as a hairdresser, Kerrigan met Marie Fraser, who ran a modelling agency and school known as the Dawn Academy. At Fraser's urging, she joined the school, where she was persuaded to change her name from Patsy to avoid the perception that she might be attempting to "cash in" on the popularity of Pattie Boyd, a top model who Fraser thought Kerrigan strongly resembled. She decided on the name Kim.
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