NOTES
- Mother of a Brazilian fashion model who died from complications having to do with anorexia made an emotional appeal for parents to take better care of young models
- Ana Carolina Reston (21 years old) increases the growing criticism of the use of underweight models in the fashion world
- New significance after the death in Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos died of heart failure during a fashion show in Montevideo in August
- Reston died in a Sao Paulo hospital from a generalized infection caused by anorexia
- Obsessively deprived herself of food in pursuit of an ultra-thin look
- Died on November 14 from a generalized infection caused by anorexia
- Her BMI was well below the limit defined as starvation
- Reston weighed 88 pounds and was about 5 feet 8 inches tall
- Doctors consider this weight normal for a 12-year-old girl who is no more than 5 feet tall
- "Take care of your children ... no money is worth the life of your child, not even the most famous (fashion) brand is worth this." -Miriam Reston, told to the O Globo newspaper
- Her daughter had been trying to help her family with the money she made as a model
- Miriam spoke on national television and to local newspapers to highlight the tragedy
- She had pleaded with her daughter to eat more and see a doctor
- "She would reply, 'Mummy, don’t mess me around.'"
- Many top models come from Brazil
- Thousands of young girls dream of modeling careers, inspired by the international success of Gisele Bundchen or Adriana Lima
- Reston had worked abroad, including in Japan,
- Did some jobs for Giorgio Armani and the Brazilian model agency L’Equipe
- September, Madrid banned models below a certain weight from its top fashion show
- Models with a BMI of less than 18 were banned
- Other famous fashion venues like London consider following suit
- Reston’s BMI was 13.5
- The World Health Organization considers anyone with a BMI below 18.5 underweight
- A BMI below 17.5 (one of the criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa)
- BMI nearing 15 is usually an indicator for starvation
It's terrible that models that haven't even made a name for themselves yet, such as Reston, who was just beginning to work with top designers like Giorgio Armani, starve themselves for their jobs. I think that what Spain did was, although extremely controversial, an amazing thing to do...and I'm glad they did it. It forces their models to be healthy and thin. How did models react to this change? Did models get help to keep their jobs, or did they continue their unhealthy paths?
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