For many years, people have long debated between the link that exists between the fashion world and a condition that is known as anorexia. The necessity to be skinny in the fashion world has definitely accentuated this problem, which affects many adolescents who strive to look like the beautiful models that strut the catwalks every year.
Several well-known models have unfortunately died due to this problem that they could no longer control. Famous model Isabelle Caro died at the age of 28 after fighting a struggling battle with the disease. Before her death, Caro worked vigorously to raise awareness against this disease. She was featured in an ad campaign that was shot by the famous Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani in 2007. Under the headline “No Anorexia,” images were posted across newspapers and billboards showing Caro naked and vertebrae. At that time, she weighed 27 kilograms.
Notwithstanding that the campaign shocked the world, many fashion designers did not necessarily support the cause and blamed anorexia not solely on the fashion industry. And while it is true that anorexia cannot only be associated to the fashion world, the pressure that surrounds the models and consequently the adolescents who look up to their “perfect” features is an argument that cannot be dismissed.
Below, we feature a video of singer/actress/fashion mogul, Jessica Simpson, interviewing the the late Isabell Caro (who died not even a year ago, December 2010) in her VH1 show called the Price of Beauty where she talks to the model about her anorexia and her campaign against it. Caro had suffered from this disease since the age of 13.
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