Isabelle Caro, French anorexia model died at 28

Isabelle Caro, French anorexia model died at 28. Catch here all the latest news and updated reports, French model Isabelle Caro, who gave anorexia a face, has died at the age of 28 after years of battling the illness.

Caro famously posed naked for an advert designed to make the fashion industry re-think its fixation on size zero. The 2007 “No Anorexia” campaign, which featured the anorexic model, was banned in Italy, according to Reuters.
She died on November 17, but her family asked for her death to be kept private, Le Parisien newspaper reported.Isabelle Caro (12 September 1982 – 17 November 2010) was a French model from Marseille, France, who became well-known after appearing in a controversial ad campaign “No Anorexia” which showed Caro with vertebrae and facial bones protruding in a picture by photographer Oliviero Toscani. She suffered from severe anorexia nervosa since she was 13 years old. Her anorexia was caused by what she calls a “troubled childhood.” When she appeared on CBS’s The Insider, it was revealed that at the worst of her eating disorder, her weight had gone as low as 25 kilograms (55 lb; 3 st 13 lb) at a height of 1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in); her most recent weight being 33 kilograms (73 lb; 5 st 3 lb).