14 DAY TRIAL // Later last year, Isabelle Caro, famous for being the face and body of the “No Anorexia” campaign from a while back, died in hospital at the age of 28. Now, her mother has taken her own life, presumably because she was feeling guilty about Isabelle’s death.
As we also noted a while back, Caro made headlines around the world after accepting to pose sans clothes for a series of billboards meant to show the devastating effects of anorexia
In subsequent interviews, she underlined that she’d suffered from the disease since she was 13 and that her problems stemmed from what she liked to call a “difficult childhood.”
She also put out a book later, “The Little Girl Who Didn’t’ Want to Get Fat,” in which she suggested that her own mother resented her for growing up, which may have also contributed to her self-esteem issues, the Daily Mail informs.
Presumably tormented by guilt, Isabelle’s mother has now taken her own life, the British tabloid says, citing reports in the international media.
“The mother of Isabelle Caro, the anorexic French model who died last year, has committed suicide,” writes the Mail.
“Marie Caro, whose daughter made headlines around the world after a picture of her gaunt naked body appeared in a shocking ad campaign, took her own life earlier this month after being consumed with ‘enormous guilt’,” the same publication writes.
Confirmation seems to come straight from Isabelle’s step-father, Marie’s husband. He says Marie couldn’t live with the guilt, while also blaming the hospital staff about his daughter’s death at just 28.
“[Marie] felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital,” Mr. Caro reported said.
To make sure that such tragedies don’t occur again, he’s already lodged complaints with competent authorities, being convinced that Isabelle died “from the successive consequences of negligence by the medical staff.”