Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell have taken to the water to learn synchronised swimming.
Moss was said to have turned Campbell onto the sport and to have kept up practice for her underwater swim ballet moves in Thailand, where she has been holidaying.
The moves include the egg-beater, which requires a scissor-like action with the legs, and the scull thrust, which defies description.
An observer at Moss’s £3,000-a-night villa in Phuket said: “Kate has spent five days’ solid preparing for this synchronised swimming display. Underwater music was piped through her hotel pool, allowing her to practise her moves and refine the art of water ballet. Sporting a nose clip and floral swimming cap – worn ironically – she had a hotel worker download an online handbook so she could learn all the moves.”
The source continued:”Kate has perfected all the basic sculling moves and twirls, plus the eggbeater – basically treading water – but has really struggled with the crane, which requires a great deal of core strength.”
Moss invited Campbell and others to her villa to show off her movies. “The only blip in the evening was when a rather tipsy Kate tried to jump back in the pool at midnight for an impromptu solo performance. Boyfriend Jamie Hince had to physically hold her back. But Kate reckons it’s been amazing for her bum and tum, and has really firmed her up,” said the source.