brownie Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 From AFP: Fashion model dies of anorexia From correspondents in Sao Paolo, Brazil Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston, 21, died of anorexia nervosa, Brazilian media reported. Reston, 1.72m tall and weighing only 40kg, had been in hospital since October 25 due to a kidney malfunction. Her condition became more serious and deteriorated into a generalised infection that led to her death on Tuesday. Born to a middle-class family in Jundiai, near Sao Paulo, Reston had worked for renowned modelling agencies such as Ford, Elite and L'Equipe, in countries like China, Turkey, Mexico and Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 That is a shame. Brownie, could you translate the height and weight into inches and pounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 (edited) No search hits on her full name. Is this perhaps her?? http://www.anacarolina.com The full name given in her bio on the site (can't cut-n-paste anything from their multi-media presentation), does NOT match the name in the article. (But models and actresses change their names all the time.) The website site (above) does mention the same city as the article, so who knows -- they could be one in the same. Who knows Edited November 15, 2006 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 ....that would be here....what a shame! m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 (edited) Not so fast -- here's another (different) "Ana Carolina" supermodel, also from Brazil... http://supermodels.nl/anacarolinaileck Edit: And this one is listed with a modelling agency in Sao Paulo (the city mentioned in the article). http://supermodels.nl/agencies/marilynsaopaulo Edited November 15, 2006 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 That is a shame. Brownie, could you translate the height and weight into inches and pounds? 40 kg = 88 lbs 1.72 m = 5'9" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 The website is for the 28 year old Ana Carolina da Fonseca. I'm thinking that it's a different model altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Ileck is 25. Sad nonetheless... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 http://celebritysmack.blogspot.com/2006/11...f-anorexia.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slide_advantage_redoux Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 http://celebritysmack.blogspot.com/2006/11...f-anorexia.html Seems she went by the name Carolina Reston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last. You're on thin ice there, dude... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yeah, the joke would be funny except that I don't find this funny at all. Sad is what it is. And I have been around a number of models (and non-models) enough to know the pressures (my old girlfriend was a fashion designer). It's a fucked-up world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22carolin...w=all&s=int http://www.elitemodel.com.br/em_detail.php...Rows_rsFotos=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Gorgeous girl, very sad. Time for the fashion industry to collectively fire down a sammich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slide_advantage_redoux Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last. You're on thin ice there, dude... Sorry, the class clown in me once again betrays me. Please accept my apologies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 That's her all right! Story in Brazil's Globo (in Portuguese only): http://oglobo.globo.com/sp/mat/2006/11/15/286645820.asp She died on the eve of leaving for Paris for a fashion photos assignment! She started her modeling career at 13! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last. You're on thin ice there, dude... Sorry, the class clown in me once again betrays me. Please accept my apologies. Ummm....Greg....uh....it's Clifford Thornton you should be apologizing to, not Moose... ("thin" ice. Get it? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last. ah - borat is on the board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Last night I was watching some of a documentary on eating disorders(HBO, name escapes me). What these women do to themselves is just horrifying. I was looking at some of them and thinking "if she gained 30 lbs. she'd look great". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 40 kg = 88 lbs 1.72 m = 5'9" Thanks Guy. That says a lot, does it not? Somebody is responsible for approving of her getting down to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 I recall reading an excellent book when I was in college called "Holy Anorexia" (by Rudolph Bell). It argues that Anorexia Nervosa (a condition, incidentally, that was first described by Queen Victoria's Royal Surgeon, Sir William Withey Gull, who has been accused of being Jack the Ripper in some accounts) is behind the behavior of many female saints and martyrs who believed that "mortification of the flesh" was necessary to attain God's favor. Many of these saints (including Catherine of Seina) fasted excessively. Their desire to attain perfect holiness mirrors the modern obsession with a perfect body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockefeller center Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Please update: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ic=3292&hl= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Update on the story. From Reuters: Brazil mourns as anorexia claims another model's life By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The mother of a Brazilian fashion model who died from complications of anorexia has made an emotional appeal for parents to take better care of aspiring young models. The death of Ana Carolina Reston, 21, follows growing criticism of the use of underweight models in the fashion world, an issue given new significance after the death in August of Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos of heart failure during a fashion show in Montevideo. Reston died on Tuesday in a Sao Paulo from a generalized infection caused by anorexia, an eating disorder in which sufferers obsessively deprive themselves of food in pursuit of an ultra-slim look. Reston weighed only 88 pounds (40 kg) and was about 5 feet 8 inches tall (1.72 meters) tall. Doctors consider this weight normal for a 12-year-old girl no more than about 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall. "Take care of your children ... no money is worth the life of your child, not even the most famous (fashion) brand is worth this," her mother, Miriam Reston, told O Globo newspaper. She said her daughter had been trying to help her family with the money she made as a model. Miriam spoke on national television and to local newspapers to highlight the tragedy. She said she had pleaded with her daughter to eat more and to see a doctor. "She would reply, 'Mummy, don't mess me around,'" Miriam told O Estado de S.Paulo. "Dictatorship of skinny look kills a model," said the front-page headline of O Dia tabloid, which carried a picture of the dark-haired, big-eyed girl in lingerie. Many top models come from Brazil and thousands of young girls from all walks of life dream of modeling careers, inspired by the international success of Gisele Bundchen or Adriana Lima. Reston was not famous but she had worked abroad, including in Japan, and did some jobs for Giorgio Armani and the Brazilian model agency L'Equipe, which declined immediate comment. In September, Spain caused a storm in the fashion world when Madrid barred models below a certain weight from its top fashion show. Models with a body-mass-index (BMI), which takes into account height and weight, of less than 18 were banned. Reston's BMI was just 13.5 while the World Health Organization considers anyone with a BMI below 18.5 underweight. A BMI below 17.5 being one of the criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa and a BMI nearing 15 is usually used as an indicator for starvation. Other famous fashion venues like London were considering following suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Notice the diet(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Carolina_Reston Ana Carolina Reston Macan (1985 – November 14, 2006) was a Brazilian model. She was born to a middle class family in Jundiai, on the outskirts of São Paulo. Reston began her modeling career at the age of 13 after winning a local beauty contest in her hometown. She was represented by reknowned modeling agencies such as Ford, Elite and L'Equipe in countries such as China, Turkey, Mexico, and Japan, including prestigious ad campaigns such as Giorgio Armani. She weighed only 40 kilograms (88 lbs.) and had been hospitalized since October 25 for kidney malfunction due to anorexia nervosa and bulimia, which included a diet of only eating apples and tomatoes. Her condition became more serious and deteriorated into generalized infection that led to her death at the age of 21. At the time of death she weighed just over 36 kilograms (80 pounds). She was the second anorexic model reported to have died in 2006. Luisel Ramos, 22, suffered a heart attack in August after living on lettuce leaves and Diet Coke for three months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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