Anorexia victims

Anorexia Victims : Hila Elmalich, Luisel Ramos, Ana Carolina Reston

• Posted by Magnetic Blue
• November 20, 2007

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Hila Elmalich Before and After

Israeli model Ilanit Elmalich, who once worked for the Israeli branch of the Elite modeling agency, died Nov. 14 of complications from anorexia on her 34th birthday.
Quoted from inmyheartblog

When Israeli fashion model Hila Elmalich died last week after years of fighting anorexia, she weighed less than 60 pounds. Her death sent a shockwave through Israel’s fashion world. Elmaleh, who had been in and out of hospitals for several years, collapsed at home and died Wednesday of heart failure. The Israeli fashion photographer and modeling agent Adi Barkan was her friend. He spent hours at her bedside over the years. “I don’t know how to feel, I don’t know what to say,” he told ABC News.
Quoted from ABC News

This isn’t the first death caused by Anorexia Nervosa…

Luisel Ramos and Ana Carolina Reston

Pro Anorexia

On August 2, 2006, at 9:15 p.m., Luisel Ramos died of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week in Montevideo, Uruguay. Ramos had felt ill after walking the runway and subsequently fainted on her way back to the dressing room. She died at the age of 22. Ramos’ father told police that she had gone “several days” without eating. She was reported to have adopted a diet of lettuce leaves and Diet Coke for the three months before her death. At the time of her death she had a body mass index (BMI) of about 14.5 due to having weighed little more than 7 stone (98 lb, 44 kg) despite being 5 ft 9 in tall (1.75 m). The World Health Organization considers a BMI of around 16 to be starvation.
Quoted from Wikipedia

Ana Carolina Reston Macan was a Brazilian fashion model of part Lebanese heritage. […] In January 2004 Reston made her first overseas trip to Guangzhou, a Chinese city close to Hong Kong. While attending a casting call there, she was reportedly informed that she was ‘too fat’, a criticism, it has been said, that led to her decline into anorexia nervosa.

At the time of her death Reston weighed only 40 kilograms (88 lbs.), measured 172 cm (5 feet 8 inches), and had been hospitalized since October 25 for kidney malfunction due to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, which included a diet consisting only of apples and tomatoes. She had a body mass index (BMI) of about 13.4, below the index value of 16 which the World Health Organization considers to be starvation. Her condition became more serious and deteriorated into generalized infection that led to her death at the age of 21.
Quoted from Wikipedia