Deadly Thinness: 10 Stories about famous women who died from anorexia

Anorexia nervosa - an eating disorder characterized by refusal of food in order to reduce body weight. This disease often suffer models and young girls who want to meet the criteria put forward by the model houses and the media. Models and ordinary women who want to lose weight very much, go for everything to achieve their goals, not noticing how are captured insidious disease, from which not so simply to escape.

< Carla Alvarez

Carlos Báez Mercedes Alvarez was born on October 15, 1972 in Mexico City. At 20 years young beauty came to the casting for the filming of the show and pulled out the winning ticket: Charles starred in over 20 films and television series, received huge fees, he has participated in advertising campaigns and is considered one of the most beautiful actresses in Mexico. But Charles was terrified to get better: having a typical Hispanic figure with prominent hips, Carla torture yourself diets, sports, and eventually "dohudelas" to anorexia. Soon, the disease is now bulimia, and in 41 years the star died. Last, 99-series saga "How beautiful love" with the actress came out 5 months before her death - 31 May 2013

Karen Carpenter

. Carpenters Group's success was fantastic: three Grammy Awards, nine gold albums, ten singles gold, one multiplatinum album: Brother and sister Carpenter became idols of generation. However, the star of children parents have always been close and priority brother: the success of the musical group the parents attributed exclusively to Richard and Karen - although it was a vocalist - has always remained in the shadows. Just escaped from the custody of parents Karen commend deserved: crowds of fans, fashion photography, invitations to tour ... It was on tour Karen start to gain weight: ate somehow, without the regime, often - junk food and as a result much stout. Once, during an interview with journalists asked if their favorite is pregnant, and then Karen seriously frightened that the image of "a thick aunt," her entrenched. Given the fact that the fashion was thin-voiced "Twiggy" panic Karen explained. The girl ran to lose weight, and chose the most radical way: do not eat almost anything. Six months later Karen weight during the growth of 172 cm down to the level of 40 kilograms. The family panicked and put the girl to the hospital, where Karen got recovered and rested. At family dinners, it ceased to be content with lettuce, I began to eat normally, and it seemed it was all over ... If the family knew that immediately after a meal, Karen goes to the toilet and ... Karen was bulimia. One morning, Karen was found dead in the kitchen. Her heart could not stand. Her weight at that time was 36 kilograms.




Isabelle Caro

Now Isabel called global symbol in the fight against anorexia. Unlike many, Isabelle never aspired to be thin. The girl stopped to eat normally at age 12 due to a mental deviation mother. At that caused panic and aggression maturing daughters, rounded hips and breasts, the increase ... Mother stopped to let the girl on the street, has limited its class household chores and playing the violin and strongly emphasized that to grow, to get in shape - badly. Isabelle stopped eating, the body remained childlike flat, to once again not to incur the wrath of the mother. Soon she became a model for jobs, but unnatural thinness prevented her to make a career. One day she was invited to the program of 'The Insider' CBS channel on which it is told about the problem, and it is almost saved Isabel: she helped the doctors, her weight began to increase, and she released a book about anorexia "Little girl, who did not want to get fat "in which the girls warned against repeating his fate. Unfortunately, the body had already suffered irreparable damage: Isabel constantly end up in hospital because of the failure of one or the other body. In the 28 years she died.



Ana Carolina Reston

In 13 years, Ana won a beauty contest and became involved in the modeling business. Reston was incredibly popular: she worked with modeling agencies Ford, Elite and L'Équipe, represented by products of famous brands, he took part in an advertising campaign for Giorgio Armani. Huge load and constant fear to fall out of the cage led to the fact that Ana lost appetite because of nerves. The model does not restrict your diet, she just did not want to eat. October 25, 2006 Reston was taken to hospital due to liver failure. The body mass index of Ana Carolina at that time was equal to 13, 5, while a reading below 17, 5 is considered hazardous to health. Condition sharply deteriorated model, and less than a month, Ana Carolina has died at the age of 22 years.



Christina Heinrich

From early childhood, Christie was fond of rhythmic gymnastics, girl felt quite promising and definitely talented. Her gymnastic career started very well, and literally there was talk a few years later that Christie has a good chance to get into the US Olympic team. This coincided with a period of hormonal changes the body Christi, and she began to gain weight for reasons beyond its control. Coach pretty severely reprimanded Christie and said that if it sees its future in the gym, it should immediately pull myself together and lose weight. Obsessed with the idea to get into the national team gymnast she sat on a strict diet and exhausting himself workouts, constantly weighed and was in a deep depression because each gram dialed. It all ended with anorexia nervosa, from which Christie was treated a little more than two years, but to no avail: at 22, she died of multiple organ failure

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Leila Pahlavi

The youngest daughter of the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his third wife, Farah Pahlavi, after his father's death Leyla was forced to flee with his mother and brother in the United States after the Iranian revolution. At first all went well: quite secular, educated, with perfect features and original appearance, she became popular model, starred for the Valentino brand and many others, but did not cope mentally with the new way of life. Accustomed to luxury and permissiveness, and Laila was fascinated by drugs, after treatment became depressed and began to abuse antidepressants, side effect which has been a sharp decrease in appetite. Life Leila looked like a pendulum: girl indulges in all serious, ate and drank in the pleasure, rolled grand party, and then tormented by guilt, punishing herself for revelry and stopped there. Anorexia, bulimia and dependence on medications killed the beauty in '31.



Luisel and Eliana Ramos

One of the biggest scandals associated with anorexic models, erupted after the death of a top model Luisel Ramos directly during a fashion show at fashion week in Montevideo (Uruguay). Three days before the show Luisel stopped there, allowing himself only lettuce and diet soda. The fateful day is still vygshla on the podium, but after the first call felt ill and went to the dressing room, where a few minutes later died of acute heart failure. With the growth of 175 cm she weighed a little more than 40 kilograms. Death Ramos became the point of no return: at the Madrid Fashion Week in the same year it was decided to avoid models with a body mass index less than 18. In December, the struggle with anorexia joined by Italian designers. The second round of the story was a year from anorexia died sister Luisel - Eliana Ramos, also a model, limit yourself to normal food, to maintain "zero" size. After the death of Eliana was decided not to accept models of this size.



Teresa Saiva

Case Saiva Teresa appeared in the center of a political scandal as anorexia and bulimia, which she had suffered for many years, brought her to a state of coma. Terry itself with life and her husband Michael were opposed to the artificial maintenance of life of the patient in the case of the dying brain, but the parents of Teresa has long fought for the preservation of their daughter in a vegetative state, but alive. Numerous courts, political statements, provocations and changes in US legislation had a great public outcry, litigation lasted almost 15 years, as a result of Teresa still cut off from the life-support system and allowed to leave.



Heidi Guenther

Heidi Young raved about the ballet. At 12 years old girl has appeared in regional theaters in Dallas and Houston, but dreamed of entering the ballet school in San Francisco. The first entrance exams Heidi failed, she was told that in order to meet the stringent criteria of the ballet school is necessary much to lose weight. A year later, the girl took, however, attention to the weight of Heidi by her mentor Anna Marie Holmes was a constant. A year later, Heidi landed badly after a spectacular jump and broke her leg. During the forced immobility of the girl gained 5 kilograms, and, returning to the ballet school, received a rebuff mentor on the inadmissibility of such an attitude to your body. "Or you'll get thin or you deduct." At Heidi had no choice, the girl coped with the "superfluous" weight, but the trauma was too great: for the recognition of parents, Heidi literally became afraid of food. Heidi began taking laxatives and various preparations for weight loss, her body could not stand it and at the age of 22 years, Heidi died in a car in which they were traveling with their parents at Disneyland. The fate of Heidi was filmed the movie "Dance of the more expensive life", released in rent in 2001.



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