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Brazil Mourns As Anorexia Claims Another Model's Life
Drudge ^ | 11/16/06 | Andrei Khalip

Posted on 11/16/2006 12:10:19 PM PST by Froufrou

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 hospital 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. Doctors consider the weight normal for a 12-year-old girl about 5 feet 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, 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 media 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.

O Dia tabloid carried a picture of the dark-haired, big-eyed girl in lingerie on its front-page with the headline "Dictatorship of skinny look kills a model."

(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...


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To: avacado

That's sickening.


121 posted on 11/16/2006 6:43:00 PM PST by dljordan
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To: avacado
Gasp!
122 posted on 11/16/2006 6:43:52 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Maury

It was more that I flat did not eat and my blood levels were dangerously low. Had I not seen a doctor, I'd have continued to starve myself. You are sooo not getting it.


123 posted on 11/17/2006 3:47:46 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: The KG9 Kid

Fried plantains are [words escape me!] I've not tried 'wet' tamales but they sound enticing.

What's for dessert?


124 posted on 11/17/2006 3:49:46 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: COUNTrecount

Gaultier, the designer? He did this??? Lord! There's no reason why even a big woman has to look like that!!!

MY EYES!


125 posted on 11/17/2006 3:50:58 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: null and void; pax_et_bonum

I'm embarrassed to say it, but I don't know how to post pictures. That's why I always value when someone posts them to me. There are pictures of my in the Flyer memorial thread, standing next to pax_et_bonum, who is a TOTAL cutie!


126 posted on 11/17/2006 4:02:27 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: ArrogantBustard; Palladin; null and void

Teehee, you made me laff! Lumpy and Bumpy! ~snorrfle!~

Tell me: hub's idea of sexiest woman is Sophia Loren. What's yours?


127 posted on 11/17/2006 4:07:01 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

That's hard to argue with ...


128 posted on 11/17/2006 5:24:41 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard; Palladin; null and void

I think if I were male I would go for Joey Hetherton or Tuesday Weld [in their day.]


129 posted on 11/17/2006 6:06:16 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Osage Orange

How about I have worked with eating disorders so maybe I see what is healthy and normal differently ;)


130 posted on 11/17/2006 7:19:40 AM PST by najida (If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
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To: Froufrou
I'm embarrassed to say it, but I don't know how to post pictures.

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131 posted on 11/17/2006 8:00:12 AM PST by null and void ("Jihad" just means "[My] Struggle", but then again, so does "Mein Kampf"...)
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To: Froufrou; sweetliberty
Tell me: hub's idea of sexiest woman is Sophia Loren. What's yours?

Sweetliberty

132 posted on 11/17/2006 8:05:12 AM PST by null and void ("Jihad" just means "[My] Struggle", but then again, so does "Mein Kampf"...)
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To: null and void

133 posted on 11/17/2006 4:13:05 PM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: najida
I work with people with lung disorders, such as COPD, etc.....I can't just "look" at someone and diagnose their degree of disease/disability. I can assume...and I could guess. But I can't definitively state it..without facts.

And that was and remains my point.

134 posted on 11/18/2006 6:41:10 AM PST by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: avacado
"It came from this site that still WORKS!"

They said they got them from an anorexia fetish site. If you don't want to be insulted you need to get your facts straight.
135 posted on 11/24/2006 6:04:57 AM PST by monday
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To: workerbee
"Whether her agency sent her to a specialist or not is moot. My point stands: this girl worked for an industry that takes the old motto "you can never be too thin" to an extreme. Girls 25+ pounds underweight are routinely encouraged to shed just a couple more so they'll be "perfect."

This girl was so thin she was fired from her job. Obviously the motto "you can never be too thin is BS". She could and was too thin to do her job. How can you imply her "industry" encouraged her "to shed just a couple more" pounds. Thats just dishonest.
136 posted on 11/24/2006 6:12:33 AM PST by monday
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To: monday

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"It came from this site that still WORKS!"

They said they got them from an anorexia fetish site. If you don't want to be insulted you need to get your facts straight.
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I TOLD YOU where I got them from. Deal with it! Now go away asshat!


137 posted on 11/25/2006 11:36:09 AM PST by avacado
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