Top model dies of anorexia

[brownie]

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.

[GA Russell]

That is a shame.

Brownie, could you translate the height and weight into inches and pounds?

[Rooster_Ties]

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

[sheldonm]

....that would be here....what a shame!

m~

[Rooster_Ties]

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

[Guy Berger]

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"

[JSngry]

http://celebritysmack.blogspot.com/2006/11...f-anorexia.html

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last.

[Rooster_Ties]

http://celebritysmack.blogspot.com/2006/11...f-anorexia.html

Seems she went by the name Carolina Reston.

[Jazzmoose]

Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last.

You're on thin ice there, dude...

[clifford_thornton]

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.

[JSngry]

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22carolin...w=all&s=int

http://www.elitemodel.com.br/em_detail.php...Rows_rsFotos=15

[Noj]

Gorgeous girl, very sad. Time for the fashion industry to collectively fire down a sammich.

[slide_advantage_redoux]

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.

[brownie]

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!

[JSngry]

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? )

[Bright Moments]

Well, I am glad we got the skinny on this story at last.

ah - borat is on the board!

[PHILLYQ]

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".

[GA Russell]

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.

[Alexander]

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.

[rockefeller center]

Please update: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ic=3292&hl=

[brownie]

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.