Isabelle Caro, a French model and actress who became the international face of anorexia when she allowed her ravaged body to be photographed nude for an Italian advertising campaign to raise awareness about the disease, died on Nov. 17. She was 28. VIA / New York Times Read full Article here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/world/europe/31caro.html
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Bringing attention to an illness which takes many women an men from us too early. She is inspiration to many. Her message will still carry on, through the strength an courage it took to deliver it. This helped countless others find there truth. What are your thoughts on Isabelle's message?
Here is her appearance on The Price of Beauty.
Is there an easy cure for anorexia? I had a mild (I got over it) case of it during a divorce ... I could only eat if I didn't have to wait and maybe two bites. Situational anorexia? The best advice was to never weigh yourself and I haven't in twenty years. If someone could have saved her, she would have been. Weight and all those judgments ... there are ads on buses for laptop bands approved for those just 30 pounds overweight, not just the morbidly obese.
ReplyDeleteThe whole debate is so pedestrian: the absolute simple truth is mired in prejudice. Equal rights for the morbidly anorexic and overweight? It's messed up because it's about control and need; medicine is not the complete answer.
And anyone speaking against the let's-understand-and-it's-ok thing is hated and why?
Sometimes the whole purpose is to dialogue and not just gloss over the facts that for humans (and animals) too much or too little weight deeply effects health and some people are stuck in their bad place.
Lapbands and botox (nothing against botox, believe me: love it but it's not an answer either).
What to do.