8 celebrities who died of anorexia
The death of it-girl and TV presenter Peaches Geldof made headlines this week. Although the doctors called the incident inexplicable and sudden, close girls claim that she was sick with anorexia. We recall 7 more media characters who died from a terrible disease.
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1. A 25-year-old British journalist, TV presenter and model was found dead at her home on April 7th. Anorexia was named as one of the causes of death. Friends of the TV presenter confirm that Peaches has been fond of juice diets for the last year.
2. Favorite Dior since John Galliano, Brazilian model Anna Carolina Reston, who ate only apples and tomatoes, died at the age of 22. Her last work was the advertising company Giorgio Armani - the brand persistently invited the model to cooperate, even when her weight was less than 40 kg with a height of 174 cm.
3. Hila Elmaliah In the nineties, Hila was a popular Israeli model on the world catwalk. The disease appeared in a girl at the age of 21, and accompanied her for another 13 years. As a result, on her 34th birthday, the supermodel weighing 21 kg died.
4. The most media anorexic twins also worked as doctors. Sisters Maria and Kathy staged a 22-year-long competition. The goal is to become thinner than the opponent. As a result, the competition ended in death for both.
5. Not surprisingly, most of the victims of anorexia are models of the early 2000s, it was then that the trend was considered to correspond to “heroin chic”. So the sisters Luisel and Eliana Ramos also caught the occupational disease. The eldest - Elina - lost consciousness right on the catwalk during Fashion Week, and soon died. The 18-year-old youngest died of exhaustion six months later.
6. Unlike previous models, Frenchwoman Isabelle Caro's anorexia is not the result of her modeling career. The girl suffered from a severe form of the disease from the age of 13, and began working as a model with a photo shoot by Oliviero Toscani “No Anorexia”, in which a 28-kilogram Isabelle poses naked. By the way, one of the goals of such social advertising is to stop top models from losing weight.