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Saturday, February 10, 2007 at
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Posted by anybody
in the body and fashion

Extreme Diet Model Dies Six Months after Anorexic
Sister

Tom Hennigan in São Paulo,The
Times, February 15, 2007

A teenage model has been found dead from extreme dieting six months after her
sister, also a model, died at a fashion show from complications arising from
anorexia.

Eliana Ramos, 18, was found dead in her bedroom by her grandmother, with whom
she was staying in Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital. She is believed to have
suffered a heart attack. A full postmortem examination report has yet to be
released but local reports suggested that Ms Ramos, who was taking part in
Montevideo fashion week, suffered from “alimentary deficiency”. Her parents, who
were on holiday at the time of her death, were said to be devastated.

Luisel Ramos, 22, collapsed and died on the catwalk during a fashion show in
Montevideo last year. Eliana had just embraced her sister and wished her good
luck in what was their first fashion show together.

Her father said afterwards that his daughter had been on a regime of lettuce
and diet cola in an attempt to lose weight.

Her body mass index (BMI) was found to be below the level considered by the
World Health Organisation to be starvation.

Despite what happened to her sister, Ms Ramos, nicknamed Elle by family and
friends, had decided to continue her modelling career.

She had signed with one of Argentina’s top agencies and the blonde, blue-eyed
teenager was considered to have a promising career in Europe and the United
States in front of her.

The younger Ms Ramos had recently been signed up by Dotto Models, the agency
that represented her sister.

Yesterday Pancho Dotto, the agency’s owner, dismissed claims that an eating
disorder was responsible for Eliana’s death. “She was very healthy, she ate well
and played sports,” he said. “She was never extremely thin. It is absurd to talk
of alimentary deficiency, anorexia, bulimia and all that.

“It is clear that the deaths of the Ramos sisters are due to a genetic
problem and not an eating disorder.”

Luisel’s death, one of several among young South American models in recent
months, prompted an intense debate in the fashion industry about the use of
so-called “size-zero” models. In Madrid and Milan, fashion week organisers
imposed a BMI minimum for all models taking part in shows.

London’s refusal to ban “zero-size” models caused a furore about whether
organisers were doing enough to protect young girls desperate for success in an
industry that demands that its models should be thin.
In São Paulo
organisers of the city’s fashion week banned models under 16 and demanded a
health certificate from girls taking part in runway shows, partly in response to
the death last November of Ana Carolina Reston, 21, who died of complications
arising from anorexia. At the time of her death she weighed 6st (40kg)

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OH geesh, I hadn't heard about this. I wish I
could have been at the demonstration with ya. In my true account, 'Big Grrrls
Rock' We are beautiful.

March 31, 2007 | Miss
Vicki

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