Goes Isabelle Caro, symbolic model of anorexia
Many will remember the campaign she anorexic "No Lita, very few know his name his name.
Isabelle born of an affair between his mother and a famous French artist, a slender man and striking contrasts with the image of her husband, a large man who will recognize the child and a father. Isabelle was born small and delicate and of its frailty that the mother is particularly proud because it is the only link left between Isabelle and her real father. This frailty is continually encouraged to secure: Isabelle is forced to wear shoes and small clothes, not
can leave the house because "the air makes it big" and when it is forced to do so, the mother covered with scarves to protect the face.
Isabelle remembers how his father's master was on the move and the commitment of the mother to accommodate children in foster care, who could play free in the garden while she was forced to watch from the house of finesre he was a prisoner. At 6 years the mother of Isabelle, a teacher, decided not to send her to school with other children but to keep her at home to study under his guidance. Only diversion granted the violin lessons, which takes Isabelle in her own home by a private music teacher.
reappears in the same period the real father of Isabelle, a musician, and his mother moves them to participate the filming for a music video together. When Isabelle sees her father understands everything despite having only seven years and that strange day remains the only one photograph of him with an inscription on the back: this is my father! Isabelle to coincide with the beginning of his illness poses a special day in which a stomach ache to leave home, the hospital is weighed and measured. Those numbers called out by the doctor draw the mother's face an expression of disappointment that leads to fast Isabelle: " I'd do anything to make her happy, I realized that I weighed too much for her. So from that day plan I stopped eating plan "she recalls.
Since that day 15 years have passed, full of diet and fasting, pain and sacrifice. 15 years they have left on the body of Isabelle signs of struggle, the war more bitter: 31 pounds of bones, psoriasis, blonde fuzz all over his body under the cheekbones and black .. the hallmarks of the evil that has invested and tries to destroy it: anorexia. Even nose and chin are not what nature had given her: she underwent surgery to refine them and make them "perfect", just those two parts of the body of the mother obsessively insisted on hiding them under layers and layers of scarves. Looking at the photo of the year No-lita says: what a horror! The images of his own body, the sick, does not identify the woman emaciated and admits that participating in the famous campaign helped her to respond: it has taken over 4 pounds and says: "I eat very little, almost nothing, but I stopped to vomit. I began to distinguish the taste of things .. I tasted the ice cream is delicious. "
Isabelle has forgiven her mother " because there was nothing I could do ." A mother of this famous campaign is not happy, a mother from which Isabelle has distanced himself (the girl lives in Marseille, the mother remained in Paris). Isabelle says: "I'm sorry that she did not approve, but for me it's important that people know and see what can really bring anorexia. I hid myself and covered for too long: now I want to show no fear even though I know that my body is repugnant. The physical and psychological pain that I immediately make sense only if they can be of help to those who have fallen or have the temptation to fall into the trap that I'm trying to get out. I have many dreams for my future, I would to be an actress in theater. I'd like a family, children ... I live .
Isabelle In 2008 he published a book whose title is "the girl who did not want to grow" in which he describes his childhood and the journey into the tunnel that anorexia ll'ha flow off only 28 years
Isabelle died in Tokyo just over a month ago after complications from pneumonia. In 2007 he became famous for a controversial advertising campaign by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani in which he had stripped to show her skinny body and help the photographer to carry out a campaign against this terrible disease from which she herself suffered when he was only thirteen. In 2006, Isabelle had fallen into coma then weighed only 25 pounds and was three feet high and sixty-five.
early 2010 Isabelle Caro had also announced that weigh 42 pounds and it was hoped that the young man was slowly improving.
In 2007, with the campaign No Anorexia, she wanted to try to awaken consciences to warn about the dangers that affect many models and lots of girls. "This picture is horror. I agreed to participate in this campaign to warn young girls, showing them the dangers of the schemes, the dictates of fashion and the ravages anorexia. The goal is to raise awareness shocking, "he said Isabelle.
A message strong, decisive and harsh in some recent cases seems to have had no effect. Personally I hope that many young women, prisoners of the same disease, have received the message of courage and Isabelle who have tried to react and cure.
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