I'm doing my English research paper on the dark side of the fashion world. While I was researching, I found out about about a girl named Isabelle Caro.
She developed an eating disorder whenever she was 13 years old. It was triggered by a troubling upbringing.
She said," I had a very complicated childhood, very difficult, very painful. My mother's big phobia was that I would grow. She spent her time measuring my height. She wouldn't let me go outside because she'd heard that fresh air makes children grow, and that's why I was kept at home. It was completely traumatic."
She posed naked for the "No Anorexia" campaign. In Milan for fashion week her billboards were all over the city.
When asked if girls would be inspired by this add to become skinnier this was Caro response, “I hope not. To see my tailbone like an open wound, I show myself as I am. I'm not beautiful, my hair is ruined and I know I will never have long hair again. I've lost several teeth. My skin is dry. My breasts have fallen. No young girl wants to look like a skeleton...You couldn't believe anyone would want to look like that. I don't think there's any question about it."
"I’ve hidden myself and covered myself for too long. Now I want to show myself fearlessly, even thought I know my body arouses repugnance. I want to recover because I love life and the riches of the universe. I want to show young people how dangerous this illness is. Just because modeling is seen as glamorous, the industry seems to think this is outside normal health and safety issues. It is time it started taking care of its workers."
Caro died at twenty-eight years old from being anorexic. Two months after Caro's death, her mom's guilt grew and felt responsible. Her mother killed herself.
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