Under the headline "No Anorexia", images across newspapers and billboards showed Caro naked, vertebrae and facial bones protruding. In later interviews, she said she had weighed about 27kg about 59 pounds when the photos were taken. Caro said on her blog and in interviews that she had suffered from anorexia since she was The ad campaign was launched at a time when the fashion industry was under scrutiny about anorexia, after a year-old Brazilian model died from the eating disorder.
He added that he did not know the exact cause of death. Ms Caro appeared in posters for an anti-anorexia campaign in , but the ads were banned in several countries. It was not clear why it took so long for her death to be made public. On her birthday this year she invited all her followers and fans to her party. That was the kind of person she was. She was very open-minded. Bigler had got to know Caro personally after writing a song about her called "J'ai fin," a wordplay that roughly translates as "I'm done" but is also near-identical to J'ai faim, the French for "I am hungry.
In a video tribute posted on YouTube yesterday he wrote: "Thank you Isabelle for your courage and for the messages you passed on. I hope that up there you enjoy what you love: art, poetry, reading and the love of others. Caro's poster campaign caused anger among some campaigners who feared that her skeletal image might inspire young women rather than encourage them. On "thinspiration" internet forums yesterday there were a number of tributes glorifying the model's anorexia problems.
One blog placed a picture of a painfully thin looking Caro alongside the words "die young, stay pretty". However, concern over anorexia has not been matched by deeds. The anorexia-linked death of the Brazilian model prompted efforts throughout the international fashion industry to address the health repercussions of using ultra-thin models — but no binding measures. French fashion industry representatives signed a government-backed charter in pledging not to encourage eating disorders and to promote healthy body images by promoting "a diversity of body representations" and not showing "images of people that could help promote a model of extreme thinness.
But London Fashion Week organizers dropped plans in for something more concrete, international health certificates for models, because industry executives around the world refused to cooperate. In France, a bill that would have cracked down on websites that advise anorexics how to starve was passed by parliament's lower house but never considered in the Senate. Swiss singer Vincent Bigler and Caro had been working on a video for a song he wrote about anorexia called "J'ai fin," a wordplay in French that means roughly "I am the end" but is pronounced identically to "I am hungry.
Bigler said he penned the song after being so moved and worried by seeing Caro on television, and meant the lyrics to focus on hope and healing.
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