14 DAY TRIAL // Isabelle Caro, the French model and actress who, back in 2007, participated in the “No Anorexia” shock campaign, has died at the young age of 28. A rep for her doesn’t mention the causes but he does say she’d been very sick.
Caro first grabbed international headlines when she agreed to pose naked for a series of billboards that would go up in Italy during fashion week, ads meant to shed some light on what anorexia really meant.
She had the disease since she was 13 and, the Daily Mail reports, she struggled with it until her final day, when perhaps her frail body no longer had the energy to sustain itself and gave way.
Oddly enough, though Caro passed away in November, it’s just now that word of her death breaks out.
“Her longtime acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, said that Caro died on November 17 after returning to France from a job in Tokyo,” the Mail reports.
“Dubreuil-Prevot said she did not know the cause of death but that Caro ‘had been sick for a long time,’ referring to her anorexia,” says the same report.
In 2010, Caro also made an appearance on Jessica Simpson’s reality show “The Price of Beauty” to speak of the 2007 shock campaign and the message she had for all girls who considered a career in modeling.
She said she developed anorexia at 13 after a fashion designer told her she needed to lose 10 kilos (22 pounds) if she wanted a career in the industry – and constantly being told she was too fat eventually took its toll on her.
At the time she shot the appearance, she was determined to overcome the disease, but she was just as thin as she was back in 2007, when she first said she wanted to fight anorexia because she loved life too much.
“I’ve hidden myself and covered myself for too long. Now I want to show myself fearlessly, even though I know my body arouses repugnance,” she said at the time, when her “No Anorexia” ads were unveiled.
Below is Isabelle Caro on “The Price of Beauty” speaking of anorexia and the pressure the fashion industry puts on models to stay thin. She was only 28 years old and her death should not be in vain.