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Brazil the world’s most skinny-obsessed country

6:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Brazil| Health| Latin America| Women · Comments Off

1 Mar 2007

anorexia_narrowweb__300x479%2C0.jpg According to a U.N. study released yesterday, it’s no wonder why women are dying of eating disorders in Brazil. Spain’s El País reports that the South American country is the world leader in production — and consumption — of weight loss drugs. They even beat the U.S.

The number of people in Brasil obsessed with achieving the perfect body is three times that of the United States. For the Brazilian Health Minister, the data from the report “is alarming”. The rise in consumption of weight loss products in Brazil could be attributed to, according to the U.N. report, the level of internal production, given that in 2005 98.5% of the total supply of the drug Anfepramona, used all over the world to lose weight, was made in Brazil.

According to the report, Argentina is a close second to Brazil in the consumption department, making them the second in the world for the use of appetite suppressants.

Via / El País

Eliana: Second model in the family to die

6:22 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion| Health| Uruguay| Women · Comments Off

14 Feb 2007

A sad twist in sad case of Luisel Ramos, the Uruguayan model we told you about last summer, who died on a catwalk in Montevideo. Uruguayan press reports that Luisel’s sister, Eliana, 18 and also a model, has died the same way her sibling did: from cardiac arrest.

Doctors are saying that Eliana was a “normal sized girl” who was “healthy”. Her rep, Argentine agent Pancho Dotto, calls the speculation that her death might have been brought on by malnutrition “absurd” and says that she didn’t suffer from anorexia or bulimia (read the whole report in Spanish).

Curiously, these are the same things that were said about Luisel, though her father initially said that his daughter had not eaten for days.

So, what is it? Eating disorders shared by two sisters who happen to be involved in the industry most associated with the illness, or a genetic heart problem?

Via / Espectador.com

Image via El Nuevo Día

Five skinny models kicked out of Spain’s Cibeles

1:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Fashion| Health| Spain| Women · 5 Comments

12 Feb 2007

2006-12-07T155957Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_2_OUKEN-UK-ITALY-MODELS.jpg Spain’s Cibeles Fashion Show, the country’s most important fashion industry event, wasn’t joking when it said it wouldn’t accept ultra-skinny models on its runways. The policy was instated this year to ensure that tragedies like those happening among Latina models in South America wouldn’t repeat themselves in Spain, and today the decision was put into action as Cibeles rejected five of its 69 models for “extreme thinness”:

The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, decided in September 2005 not to allow women below a body mass to height ratio of 18 to take part.

Spain changes sizes to help women’s health

5:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Spain · 1 Comment

25 Jan 2007

Something great is going on in Spain: first the country’s most illustrious fashion show, Pasarela Cibeles banned ultra skinny models from the runways in an attempt to adjust the perception that being impossibly skinny is something women should aspire to. Now, the Spanish government is going a step further by requiring clothes companies to change the sizing system on clothes to better women’s health and self-esteem:

The program, designed by the Health Ministry, will also prevent those companies from using window displays featuring clothes smaller than a European size 38 (10 in Britain, 8 in the United States). They will have five years to phase in the change.

Supermodel says families to blame for anorexia

5:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Controversia| Health| Women · 1 Comment

19 Jan 2007

Sadly, posts on VL about Latina models or aspiring models dying from eating disorders are not uncommon. Now a supermodel (otherwise known as Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex) from a hotbed of these deaths, Brazil, is speaking out and pointing the finger at families, not the fashion world:

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen says weak families are to blame for anorexia — not the fashion industry that has been widely criticized for promoting waifish silhouettes.

“I never suffered from this problem (anorexia) because I had a very strong family base. Parents are responsible, not the fashion industry,” she said in the Friday edition of O Globo newspaper.

I think that the fashion industry is to blame in the first place, for centering the universal ideal of beauty around impossibly thin models. Families are to blame as well, of course, but in many cases the victims hide the disease, and loved ones don’t find out until it’s too late.

Who do you think is to blame?

Via / Yahoo! Entertainment

Another aspiring model dies of anorexia in Brazil

2:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Controversia| Women · Comments Off

8 Jan 2007

Even after Brazilian modeling agencies signed a policy which restricts anorexic models from entering the profession, yet another woman has lost her life to the disease. Maiara Galvao Vieira, a 14 year-old aspiring model is the fifth Brazilian woman to die of complications related to anorexia in 3 months:

Galvao Vieira, who was 1.70 meters tall [about 5' 7"] and weighed about 38 kilograms [about 84 lbs.] was in the Miguel Couto hospital for over a month, after having been in three other public hospitals and no one being able to diagnose the disease.

And no, it wasn’t in some small town in Brazil, it was Rio de Janeiro. According to 20 Minutos, the victim’s parents say that she was so weak that she was unable to climb the stairs to her school.

Meanwhile, UK experts charge pro-anorexia websites with “literally killing people”.

Via / 20 Minutos

Brazil makes models prove they aren’t anorexic

11:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Fashion| Health · Comments Off

5 Dec 2006

In line with Spain’s decision earlier this year to ban “skinny” models from their famed Pasarela Cibeles fashion week, Brazil has decided to make sure no models that are hired in that country suffer from eating disorders such as anorexia. The decision seems to be a reaction to the tragic death of a Brazilian model in November, a victim of anorexia:

Brazilian modeling agencies announced last Friday that they will demand to see a medical certificate before hiring women who dream of being models, after the death of two models because of complications related to anorexia.

Representatives of the largest modeling agencies in the country met in Sao Paulo to decide uppon new hiring rules to avoid that the repercussions caused by the model, Ana Carolina Reston Marcan, 21 años, damage the industry’s image.

The reasoning sounds a bit selfish, but the result — women not starving themselves — will be worth it.

The agencies are requesting that all models take a blood test to prove that they are in good health, and no model can be any smaller than a size 38 (about size 4).

Via / 20 Minutos

Another Model Dies Because of Anorexia

8:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Fashion| Health| Women · Comments Off

17 Nov 2006

Another model has fallen victim to the fashion industry’s and society’s obsession with uber skinniness and died from complications because of anorexia. Brasilera Ana Carolina Reston, 21, died Tuesday this week in a Sao Paulo hospital from a generalized infection caused by anorexia. Ana Carolina, who stood at about 5 feet 8 inches, weighed only 88 pounds at the time of her death. This weight is considered normal, but only if you’re a 12-year-old girl no more than about 5 feet tall.
Additionally Ana Carolina’s body-mass-index was 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.

Debate over Uruguayan model’s cause of death

5:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Fashion| Health| Uruguay · Comments Off

8 Aug 2006

Last week we told you about a Uruguayan model, Luisel Ramos, who died of a heart attack while on the catwalk during Fashion Week in Montevideo. According to her father, the model had been starving herself for days, but now others have come forward to dispute that allegation, including her boyfriend who had dined with her the day night before the fashion show.

…amongst the pain of yesterday, after Luisel’s burial, her boyfriend Hairo Berrondo clarified that this [the starving] wasn’t true. Berrondo said that he has known her for ten years, and that he’s been her boyfriend for two and a half.

“The night before the fashion show we went out to eat pizza, with two friends of hers…she had a diet soft drink but ate well,” he said.

In response to the different versions of the story being circulated by the media, the model’s boyfriend confirmed that “[Luisel] was neither anorexic nor bulimic.”

Berrondo also dicsounted the possibility of her doing drugs or being an alcoholic. “She didn’t even drink beer,” he said.

According to Spain’s 20 Minutos, an autopsy proved that the model did not suffer from an eating disorder nor was she addicted to drugs or alcohol.

Via / La Nación

Image: Reuters

Uruguayan model dies on the catwalk

1:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion| Health| Uruguay · 2 Comments

3 Aug 2006

A few days back there was talk about whether Miss Universe’s fainting spell after her coronation wasn’t due to a lack of food. Apparently, that speculation isn’t that far off the mark, as a model in Uruguay has apparently died on the catwalk after having starved herself for several days:

A young Uruguayan model died of heart failure while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week in Montevideo (Uruguay), according to officials at the hotel where the show was held.

22 year-old Luisel Ramos felt ill after walking the catwalk, fainted on her way to the dressing room and died in spite of the medical attention she received from a mobile hospital unit, sources told EFE.
The doctors who treated her diagnosed her with heart failure.

The young woman’s father told police that the model had gone several days without eating.

In Uruguay’s close neighbor, Argentina, more and more women are struggling with body obsession. The United States leads the world in deaths caused by eating disorders, followed by Japan and Germany.

Via / 20 Minutos-EFE

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