Thread: Anorexic Model Dies at 28: Isabelle Caro

Originally Posted by Smedley Butler

Egads, I can never understand what makes some women think they need to starve themselves to a skeleton.

Psychologists say anorexia nervosa is an anomaly of self-perception. Believe it or not, anorexics are obsessed with self image, specifically about being too fat. It's a self-imposed distortion of beauty that is deadly, needless to say. Karen Carpenter of 'The Carpenters' died from the same anomaly.

Originally Posted by Smedley Butler

Most women need to have a little fat on them to look attractive and healthy. Having zero fat is not natural and doesn't look good at all.

She was 5'-5" and about 75 lbs when she died... She had been as small as 55 lbs at one time... What a pity.

Isabelle Caro

Originally Posted by Heimdallr

Psychologists say anorexia nervosa is an anomaly of self-perception. Believe it or not, anorexics are obsessed with self image, specifically about being too fat. It's a self-imposed distortion of reality that is deadly, needless to say. Karen Carpenter of 'The Carpenters' died from the same anomaly.


She was 5'-5" and about 75 lbs when she died... She had been as small as 55 lbs at one time... What a pity.

Isabelle Caro

Don't these women have honest friends that they trust who can tell them they look bad as a skeleton? (Actually in modern America that's actually a major problem for many people.)

When I heard that she died at 28, I half wondered if that was 28 years or 28 pounds.

I have had anorexic patients and have spent a lot of time studying the malady but can only scratch my head in confusion. I find far more questions than answers. There are just soooo many aspects involved; both psychological and physiological. Each case presents with a different set of possible factors.

The one commonality I find is a distorted self-image from a very early age. What creates the altered self-image I have no idea but tends to be related to feelings of self-worth and and a need to CONTROL something in their lives.

A girl may feel unable to control anything else in her life but she can, by God, control what she eats!

When a person's body mass drops below a certain point, conscious thought processes become altered and objective reality loses meaning. The number on a scale means nothing if one is certain of being fat (unworthy) and, when looking into a mirror, many of these girls actually SEE fat even when everyone else sees skin and bones.

Our sick society only encourages this behavior by presenting unrealistically thin women as the "ideal". If being 5'-10" tall and weighing 98 pounds is ideal, wouldn't one be more ideal at 78 pounds?

We parents and grandparents need to communicate better with our daughters and grand daughters to let them know what WE consider ideal and assure them they are loved and valued as worthy people. It is OUR job to show them what is healthy and what is not.

If we don't raise our kids, someone else will be delighted to do so.

P.S. Our sons are not immune either.

Here's Brittany Murphy. She starved herself down to a stick figure.

Add a little drug abuse and pnuemonia, and she's dead.


Brittany Murphy, anorexic with puffed lip versus normal

Brittany Murphy's Cause of Death | TMZ.com

Brittany Murphy's cause of death has been determined: An accidental death caused by "community acquired pneumonia," iron deficiency anemia, and multiple drug intoxication.

Unless she's playing space aliens, I can't imagine how anyone would think that's a good look.

The Olsen twins are famous for starving themselves.

Once a model or actress gets 15 or more pounds underweight, then people start speculating about crack or cocaine use (and the speculation is usually right).

Originally Posted by Former Liberal

I also have an eating disorder.
Im killing myself, 1 burger at a time!

Well, you'll probably make it into your 80s and you'll be a lot happier than those starving models.


Happy winners of a barbecue contest