Jodie Kidd has revealed she has post-traumatic stress disorder from her experience of boarding school as a child – and admitted she’d be ‘mortified’ if her son followed in her footsteps at that kind of insтιтution.

The supermodel, 46, was enrolled at posh St Michael’s School in SusSєx from the age of ten – which closed in 1994 and is now a private estate. 

‘My childhood in the eighties was that period when we’re all sent to boarding school and children should be seen and not heard. 

‘I didn’t really see a lot of my parents,’ she said. ‘It was very difficult… I just remember the trauma.’

Jodie was also disturbed watching her brother Jack, who is six years older, get sent away.

‘My brother was seven when he went to boarding school. I have PTSD trauma moments of Jack being dropped off at his boarding school literally scraping his nails at the back seat of the car, not wanting to go. 

Jodie Kidd has revealed she has post-traumatic stress disorder from her experience of boarding school as a child

The supermodel, 46, was enrolled at posh St Michael’s School in SusSєx from the age of ten – which closed in 1994 and is now a private estate (pictured in 1995 at 17)

‘And running after the car, screaming as we were driving off – it was really quite traumatic.

‘I’ve probably got loads of abandonment issues and everything from it because you would just be dropped off with your tuck box and your trunk and that was it – “pick you up in a couple of months’ time!”‘

Jodie now has a 13-year-old son, Indio, by her ex-partner, former Argentinian polo player Andrea Vianini. 

She admitted her approach to parenting is completely different to the one she experienced from her mum and dad, Wendy and John, growing up.

‘It wasn’t until I actually had Indie that I was like, no, no, no – I want to be very present. That’s why I gave up motor racing and things like that,’ she explained. 

‘I didn’t want to be away every weekend, flying around a racetrack and not watching him play football on a Saturday or doing the weekend things that I never did with my parents. It was definitely this wrong I wanted to make right.’

Speaking on the Made by Mammas podcast this week, she explained: ‘I want to have that lovely being-there, going to all the footie games, supporting him and just being that really present parent that my parents weren’t.

Jodie now has a 13-year-old son, Indio, by her ex-partner, former Argentinian polo player Andrea Vianini (seen with partner Joseph Bates)

The school is pictured. It closed in the 90s and is now a private estate

She said: ‘My brother was seven when he went to boarding school. I have PTSD trauma moments of Jack being dropped off at his boarding school literally scraping his nails at the back seat of the car, not wanting to go’

‘Not that they were bad parents – they were amazing, and I love them – but I think it was very much that period in the seventies and eighties. So I very much wanted to turn that around.

‘But to think of doing that to Indie… I would just be like, no way. Absolutely not! If Indie said to me, ‘I want to go to boarding school’, I’d be absolutely mortified.’

Model and TV presenter Jodie, who runs the Half Moon pub in Kirdford, West SusSєx, and is engaged to former Royal Marine Joseph Bates, continued: ‘We pride ourselves that Indie’s a day [school] boy. 

‘Every day: pick him up, drop him off, doing the after-school stuff. It’s such a pleasure.

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‘I almost feel really bad for my parents that they missed that. I feel sad for them more than anything. They possibly do as well when they see us.

‘My dad, to Indie, is the most extraordinary grandpa. And my mum. 

‘He’s coming down next week – the first thing he’s going to do is take him up to London… I’m like, ‘Dad! You never did that with me!’ They get a second chance.’

It comes after last month Jodie admitted it was ‘totally wrong’ to be ‘drinking champagne and smoking cigarettes’ with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell at the age of just 16 at the start of her modelling career.

The model burst onto the fashion scene as a teenager, after being spotted on a beach in Barbados by pH๏τographer Terry O’Neil, and fronted campaigns for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Chloe.

Three years after suffering a horrific panic attack during a catwalk at 19-years-old, Jodie quit the industry all together, eventually moving from London to her hometown in West SusSєx.

As she looked back on her wild days on the catwalk with Kate, 51, and Naomi, 54, Jodie said it’s ‘completely different’ compared to now.

Reflecting on her glittering modelling career on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong, It’s Right podcast, she said: ‘Nowadays it’s completely different.

She added of boarding school: ‘I’ve probably got loads of abandonment issues and everything from it because you would just be dropped off with your tuck box and your trunk and that was it’ 

‘But [when I was modelling] backstage all you had was champagne and it was very glamorous.

‘Big characters from Naomi running and strutting around to the designers to Kate, incredible characters.

‘And then everyone just drinking champagne and smoking cigarettes. 

‘I mean, I look back at it and it was very cool, but totally wrong for a 16-year-old girl to be doing that.’