Posts Tagged ‘Luisel Ramos’
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
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.
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