The YouTube video below is not trivial. It is a documentary
about eating disorders, and we get to meet Isabelle Caro,
the young anorexic woman whose naked poster many will
recognize.
The storyline is dramatic: at 5'6" and 66 pounds, her daily life
is a long ritual of not eating, in terror of gaining anything. The
ending is more promising, she puts on 1 kilo over 30 days and
answers a modeling ad from a renowned photographer 'for an
anorexic'. 'It is a great day ' she says wrily, but her smile is genuine
and I felt happy for her.
Researching what happened to her, I learned she had died
a year later 'from exhaustion'. She had become a celebrity, travelling
the world over. Her mother - whom she resembled and was very thin -
killed herself soon after. Isabelle had no doubt realized her mother's
own aspiration to celebrity, because one only carries things to extremes
out of love.
Meet Isabelle:
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