She had just turned 50. Her death was "sudden," no suspicious circumstances. Drugs?
Wow, how unfortunate and unexpected. I wonder if it was covid related. Very sad.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 23, 2020 2:41 PM |
She separated from her husband in August + just turned 50. I am guessing suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 23, 2020 3:11 PM |
Didn't she have about 5-6 kids?!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 23, 2020 3:13 PM |
probably depressed and ODed on pills/booze etc
RIP
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 23, 2020 3:14 PM |
A handsome woman (and I mean that with respect). She had a regal presence that's sorely lacking among current models.
Sad.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 23, 2020 3:16 PM |
Holy crap. That came out of nowhere (at least for most of us).
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 23, 2020 3:18 PM |
I’d guess suicide - possibly OD. The divorce from husband is a sign. Another reminder not to envy those who seem to have it all - the money often comes from a genetic line of mental illness.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 23, 2020 3:19 PM |
She had four kids - they appeared to adore her judging from their social media. The husband probably found someone else. It definitely sounds like a suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 23, 2020 3:21 PM |
The Independent mentioned this, "At the time of her death, she and her husband lived in a small village in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders." Are you 100% sure she was separated?
Stella was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, and The Hon. Deborah Mitford, one of the well-known Mitford sisters, 50-year-old Tennant also featured in the London Olympics closing ceremony in 2012, appearing as one of the models wearing British designs. She was discovered by Steven Meisel.
Stella officially retired from modeling in 1998, she made sporadic modeling appearances over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 23, 2020 3:21 PM |
2020, has been the WORST year ever! For so many reasons.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 23, 2020 3:22 PM |
Doesn't necessarily have to be suicide. Sometimes people just drop dead.
But yikes, what a surprise.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 23, 2020 3:25 PM |
Maybe in was COVID-19?????
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 23, 2020 3:28 PM |
Her oldest kid is 21. This is going to be rough.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 23, 2020 3:29 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 23, 2020 3:35 PM |
I checked her Instagram and it is still public but cleared of all photos. Maybe she was depressed.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 23, 2020 3:39 PM |
Wow, how awful. She has everything. Quelle horuerre.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 23, 2020 3:40 PM |
I find this shocking. She made an impact on me as a 90s kid. Such a unique look. I’m sorry for her family.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 23, 2020 3:46 PM |
I can’t imagine making it to the big age of 50 and then ending it all for a man. Don’t any of YOU bitches ever do that. There’s always another dick just around the corner.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 23, 2020 4:36 PM |
Stella with her late grandmother at Chatsworth.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 23, 2020 4:43 PM |
She was my favorite model for years. Yes, that steely, regal bearing was her signature vibe. Adding to that, was her aversion to smiling. I found her mysterious and utterly fascinating to look at. In retrospect, it may be that her detachment was a symptom of severe depression.
Ugh. Really bummed
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 23, 2020 4:54 PM |
It's very rare for women with multiple children to commit suicide. I'm not sure people know that.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 23, 2020 5:07 PM |
She was depressed....probably made worse by the pandemic.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 23, 2020 5:07 PM |
"It's very rare for women with multiple children to commit suicide. I'm not sure people know that."
Tell that to the Hart children...
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 23, 2020 5:10 PM |
Stella Tennant was part of a very memorable Gap denim campaign in 1996.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 23, 2020 5:17 PM |
Stella Tennant was part of a very memorable Gap denim campaign in 1996.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 23, 2020 5:17 PM |
She was the most androgynous looking of the 90s models. I never found her to be particularly beautiful or project model charisma. I think her biggest selling point was that she came from an aristocratic background. She always looked too lanky even for a model, like she had mild Marfan Syndrome. I think her best photos were those of her wearing stately gowns or outdoor shots.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 23, 2020 5:21 PM |
Looks like the less pretty sister of Josie Borain.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 23, 2020 5:28 PM |
Was she evicted?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 23, 2020 5:30 PM |
Yeah, she definitely had the androgynous thing going on which contributed to her mystique.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 23, 2020 5:31 PM |
Wow I had visited Chatworth and didn’t connect the dots to Stella. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 23, 2020 5:35 PM |
If she was living in Berwickshire she probably died of boredom.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 23, 2020 5:36 PM |
She was a major coke head back in the 1990s. Often leads to heart attacks later in life.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 23, 2020 5:37 PM |
Covid doesn't cause "sudden death". One develops severe symptoms over days, not hours.
Abusing cocaine in the 90's would not lead to a silent heart attack in 2020.
Recent divorce/separation, getting old, and history of drug/alcohol misuse. Suicide is high on the differential of causes of death.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 23, 2020 5:57 PM |
Cocaine would have been the only way to stay this emaciated.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 23, 2020 6:02 PM |
Ugh. Too bony in that photo. Not an attractive look.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 23, 2020 6:11 PM |
[quote] She had four kids - they appeared to adore her judging from their social media.
I don't judge that much from social media.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 23, 2020 6:29 PM |
Sad, I remember seeing her in all the magazines in the 90s
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 23, 2020 6:44 PM |
History of chronic cocaine use can lead to dilated cardiomyopathy which for some people are silent time bombs when it’s asymptomatic until cardiac arrest or MI.
Looking at her frame it appears that level of thinness wasn’t her natural build. She has big bones and her upper thigh actually quite muscular. It’s when you get to the rest of her that there were signs of unnatural thinness.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 23, 2020 7:19 PM |
It sounds like she died of the same thing Ann Reinking died of. What ever that was.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 23, 2020 8:56 PM |
Her face looks nice, like she was aging naturally and not going overboard with injections and plastic surgery.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 23, 2020 8:58 PM |
Shows how a perfect life can turn on a dime. A dream country house, a hunky husband, and boom!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 23, 2020 9:14 PM |
Tremendous! She'll never need a facelift.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 23, 2020 9:29 PM |
She was unusual and truly striking. A one-of-kind model, quirky in that way that is unique to the British aristocracy. She was so off the radar, I haven’t thought of her in years, but her passing makes me nostalgic for the 90s. I suppose she had some demons, the marriage separation, COVID quarantine...all looks suspiciously like an accidental overdose. If she deliberately took her own life (a la Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain) I suspect it would have been announced. There are probably toxicology reports to run. So sad for her children right before Christmas.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 23, 2020 10:43 PM |
Sad, I liked her
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 24, 2020 12:05 AM |
Always loved this pic with Stella and her chicken by Francois Nars.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 24, 2020 2:38 AM |
STELLA!!!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 24, 2020 2:49 AM |
Cane face?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 24, 2020 2:54 AM |
Is this dead woman related to notorious Stephen Tennant?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 24, 2020 3:03 AM |
Yes, r48. He was her great uncle.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 24, 2020 3:05 AM |
He was her great-uncle, R48.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 24, 2020 3:20 AM |
r48, yes!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 24, 2020 3:20 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 24, 2020 3:34 AM |
Stephen's mother was a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 24, 2020 3:42 AM |
Ugh... the nepotishm of it all
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 24, 2020 3:50 AM |
I adore R18.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 24, 2020 3:52 AM |
Covid can cause sudden death - blood clots can form rapidly and overwhelm the heart/lungs. One of the first cases I heard about was a 39 year old woman dropping dead in her home in New Orleans, not long after Mardi Gras. Her on/off again boyfriend said she had texted him to say she loved him and he didn't reply and felt guilty about it. Story stuck with me for some reason.
Anyhow, yeah, it can happen - especially then when people didn't understand the disease very well. Everybody gets colds and flu... but she had even been up and about doing stuff that day
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 24, 2020 1:00 PM |
Only in the UK would she be considered beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 24, 2020 1:04 PM |
Here's the link of the woman who dropped dead of covid in her kitchen.
She's prettier than Tennant - not a high bar though (sorry I know...RIP and all that)
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 24, 2020 1:05 PM |
The first known casualty in the U.S. in February was a middle aged woman in Santa Clara county who died suddenly, as well. She called in sick with flu like symptoms and worked from home answering e-mails in the morning. She was found dead that afternoon. An autopsy revealed COD was ruptured heart.
It can happen. Especially if she was vulnerable due to prior cocaine abuse.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 24, 2020 1:37 PM |
Here's the link for r61, hopefully. I've had trouble linking lately.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 24, 2020 1:43 PM |
Never head of her.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 24, 2020 1:52 PM |
I loved her wedding ensemble. Did she have a title?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 24, 2020 5:45 PM |
Nope
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 24, 2020 5:50 PM |
There is a saying in medical education: when you hear hoofbeats, don't go looking for zebras.
Sudden cardiac death from Covid - rare, and a zebra.
Cocaine use in the 1990's, subsequently 4 pregnancies with (I assume) great prenatal care, and sudden cardiac death from undiagnosed cardiomyopathy, zebra.
A known anorexic, with a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, aging person facing loss of industriousness, coping with one of life's major stressors: divorce (with possible financial repercussions) - suicide, a horse.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 24, 2020 9:27 PM |
r66. However you forgot to factor in the 4 children.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 24, 2020 9:47 PM |
I am with R66. Medical version of Occam's Razor.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 24, 2020 9:59 PM |
Her children are now aged 15-22, R67. While it's true that suicide risk in women decreases with each child, that protective factor is strongest when the child is under 2 years old. Her children, having passed the age of dependency, may not have been enough to tether her.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 24, 2020 10:03 PM |
R66, she was still more wealthy, lucky and privileged than 80% of British society. If everybody who faces divorce would kill themselves we would lose 35% of all people on this planet.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 24, 2020 10:10 PM |
R66, she was still more wealthy, lucky and privileged than 80% of British society. If everybody who faces divorce would kill themselves we would lose 35% of all people on this planet.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 24, 2020 10:10 PM |
Accidental overdose?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 24, 2020 10:13 PM |
It was ALS. She was diagnosed about a year ago.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 24, 2020 10:25 PM |
Says who, R73?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 24, 2020 10:30 PM |
Wow, that is so random R73 that I will not be surprised if true..
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 24, 2020 10:32 PM |
not true
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 24, 2020 10:33 PM |
R73 got lost on the way to the Rebecca Luker thread.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 24, 2020 10:48 PM |
You would have to be pretty desperate to kill yourself a few days before Christmas when you have children who will be devastated but some people become that desperate. I'm sure when the dust settles the full story will come out, I have to say it sounds like suicide, we may never know the real reason unless she left a note like Kate Spade and her note only hinted at the reason.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 24, 2020 10:50 PM |
Fuckin' tragic.
Can I have her stuff?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 25, 2020 12:15 AM |
This is very sad. She had a very distinctive look as a model. She still worked, I saw her photograph not too long ago. She was related to Colin Tennant of Mustique and Princess Margaret fame as seen in last season’s The Crown.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 25, 2020 3:17 AM |
Her maternal grandmother, Deborah Mitford the Duchess of Devonshire, was quite lovely.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 25, 2020 8:17 PM |
It could be that Covid intensified everything or something in her mind too, r78. I haven't read this entire thread but I believe the media reporting that she was concerned about never working again as a model. Don't know if there is any truth to that. But it seems that I've been reading about a fair amount of relationships breaking up (public people) since this pandemic starting to rage. Emotions are at a peak it seems for all of us but for some, maybe a bit more? Who knows. But on the other hand again, one would think that a pandemic would bring out "nurturing" feelings towards loved ones. Who knows.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 25, 2020 8:30 PM |
Wow, R83. The resemblance is striking
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 25, 2020 8:38 PM |
Very sad to hear this. From the outside she looked like she had the perfect life. Guess we never know what someone is really going through behind closed doors. Tragic for her children over Christmas.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 26, 2020 1:03 AM |
As we've heard and seen many times before, you can have everything and still be depressed. Take care of yourself!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 26, 2020 1:32 AM |
Too bad. She actually looked great as she aged. Any update on cause of death?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 27, 2020 1:47 PM |
This has been mentioned upthread but to see it all in one paragraph, wow.
[quote]Stella was also the bluest of blue-bloods. Her mother, botanical artist Lady Emma Cavendish, was the daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah “Debo” Devonshire, the youngest of the fabled Mitford sisters who was famously droll and beautiful and whose entrepreneurial flair transformed Chatsworth, the Devonshires’s storied family estate, into one of Britain’s great tourist destinations. Stella’s father, Tobias William Tennant, meanwhile, was the son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and younger brother of Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, who bought the Caribbean island of Mustique with a youthful inheritance and transformed it into the playground of rock and real royalty. As an insecure teenager, Stella recalled a visit to her eccentric aesthete uncle the Honorable Stephen Tennant who had been a noted Bright Young Thing and a celebrated beauty himself in the 1920s.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 27, 2020 1:53 PM |
Thank goodness we have our own American aristocrats among today's fashion models! The Hadids and the Jenners, for example.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 27, 2020 3:19 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 27, 2020 3:20 PM |
Do they know the cause of death yet?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 29, 2020 11:52 PM |
I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere R92, but I am still interested also.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 30, 2020 12:04 AM |
She killed herself after having been "unwell for some time"
by Anonymous | reply 94 | January 7, 2021 5:53 PM |
I am R66 and in my post I predicted successfully her cause of death.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | January 7, 2021 9:02 PM |
R95 Do mine next!
by Anonymous | reply 96 | January 8, 2021 5:54 AM |
r95 Do djt's also!
by Anonymous | reply 97 | January 8, 2021 5:58 AM |
Selfish act with all those children
Ex husband must feel like a douche bag and is likely loathed by the children now
by Anonymous | reply 98 | January 8, 2021 9:26 AM |