Fashion model Isabelle Caro wanted the shocking images of her wasted body to serve as a warning to young women about the dangers of anorexia. Her gaunt frame, images of which have circulated widely on the Internet, “is everything but beauty, the complete opposite,” she said. But not everyone heeded her message. After news of her death became public, her photo appeared on an Internet forum beside the caption, “Die young, stay pretty.”
Caro, whose Nov. 17 death at age 28 was announced in late December, “struggled with anorexia since she was 13,” said the London Independent. Her low point came in 2006, when she was hospitalized in a coma, her 5-foot-4-inch frame weighing only 55 pounds. Born in Marseille, France, she began modeling during high school and was told by her agency to lose 20 pounds. “Despite her obviously frail physique,” she was never told to gain weight.
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