Anorexic Fashion Model Isabelle Caro Dies At 28 (Photo)

Anorexic Fashion Model Isabelle Caro Dies At 28 (Photo)

French Model Isabelle Caro died in a Tokyo hospital where she was treated for 2 weeks for pneumonia on November 28th, reported today by Paris Match. Caro was the subject of much attention when her 2007 anti-anorexia media campaign was banned in Italy.

At 1.64m tall, Caro reportedly weighed 31kg when she was shot by celebrity photographer Olivero Toscani for the campaign sponsored by Italian fashion brand No-l-ita.

Caro agreed to be photographed nude and without makeup to show the world the problems that anorexia can cause and she told Stern that because of the attention from the advertisement she felt like she was “an ambassador for anorexia.”

The model, who lived in Marseilles south of Paris, had suffered anorexia since she was 12 and was hospitalised several times for malnutrition as a child.

Caro fell into a coma in 2006 when she weighed only 25kg.

In 2008 Cairo’s autobiography was published, The Little Girl Who Didn’t Want To Get Fat. She also appeared on the t.v. show, The Price Of Beauty, where she told U.S. popstar Jessica Simpson that she began modeling as a teenager and was told to “lose weight” by a casting director.

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Anorexic Model Speaks Out

Anorexc Model Speaks Out.

It’s sounds like a glamourus dream. Walking the catwalks of Milan, Paris, London and New York. Making money and wearing some of the most beautiful gowns known to man. For some it is. For others, it is a nightmare.

Fashion model, Inga Radziejewski speaks out about the pressures to be thin in the modeling world. “I was incredibly skinny but had fittings for designers like Christian Dior and the clothers were so small that even though I was anorexic I struggled to get in them.”

At her lowest weight she topped the scales at an unbelievable 98 pounds and wore a size 00. Way to small for the frame of a 5’11″ beauty.

Inga’s credits include H&M, Dior, Miss Sixty, Benneton and the James Bond Movie, “Quantum of Solace.”

At her worst she admits to eating only half and apple a day and drinking peppermint tea with brown sugar to energize her body. Eventually she left the catwalk to get help and now wears a size 12 and finds modeling jobs in Asia.

“In some ways it was very glamorous.” she says of her modeling life. “I lived in a hotel suite. But food was just not a subject anyone discussed. Not once was I asked if I’d eaten.”

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