Isabelle Caro

Isabelle Caro (born September 9, 1982 in Paris ; † November 17, 2010 ibid) (born Melody Caro) was a French model and actress who suffered from anorexia and publicly warned about the risks of the disease. In 2007 she became known to a wider public in many countries through a photo campaign in which she posed naked , emaciated .

Life

Caro was the daughter of a teacher and a well-known artist. After graduating from high school, she graduated in theater studies. In her thesis she addressed her idol Isabelle Huppert . Emulating this, she dyed her hair reddish blonde and had freckles tattooed on her face. She then attended the Cours Florent drama school in Paris.

According to her own statements, she had been suffering from anorexia since she was 13 and had her lowest weight of 25 kg after moving to Marseille in 2006. As a result, she was in a coma for four days in the hospital.

She became known in 2007 through a campaign by Benetton photographer Oliviero Toscani , which wanted to point out the dangers of anorexia and denounce the mania for slimness (text: Anorexia / No ). At that time - she posed naked on large posters - she is said to have weighed 32 kg and was 1.65 m tall. In 2009 she weighed 45 kg. In France, the Toscani photographs were not shown because, according to the state authority for advertising control, they "threaten to violate human dignity".

Caro got modeling contracts, but only after she stepped into the spotlight with her ailment. To provide information on the topic of anorexia, Caro ran a weblog and published her autobiography in 2008 .

Isabelle Caro died on November 17, 2010 of the effects of her anorexia after spending about two weeks in a hospital in Paris of pneumonia and probably of general exhaustion. Shortly before her death, she is said to have weighed less than 30 kg. Isabelle Caro's mother died of suicide in January 2011.

That same month, Isabelle Caro's father sued the Paris hospital, where his daughter died, for negligent homicide . He justified this with the fact that Isabelle Caro had not died of pneumonia, but of neglect. In 2015, a documentary about Isabelle Caro's anorexia was released.

Filmography

• 2010: Adèle and the Pharaoh's secret as mummy 'Nosibis', directed by Luc Besson
• 2014: See me disappear (documentary about Isabelle Caro), director: Kiki Allgeier , montage: Gesa Marten

literature

• Isabelle Caro: La petite fille qui ne voulait pas grossir. Autobiography. Flammarion, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-08-121394-X (French) (translated: The little girl who didn't want to get fat )

Web links

• Isabelle Caro in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 'No Anorexia' model Isabelle Caro dies aged 28 bbc.co.uk
2. ↑ Isabelle Caro: Father of skinny model sued hospital in: spiegel.de
3. ↑ Isabelle Caro: A woman between life and death ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: stern.de 
4. ↑ How an Anorexic Marketed Her Disease. welt.de
5. ↑ The backbreaking job - a model in the delusional body. t-online.de
6. ↑ Italy bans 'No Anorexia' poster. BBCNews. Retrieved January 19, 2011
7. ↑ Skinny model Caro dies of pneumonia. zeit.de
8. ↑ ^{a b} Are anorexics just plain arrogant? welt.de, July 2, 2015.
9. ↑ Mother of the dead skinny model Caro commits suicide. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dnews. Retrieved January 18, 2011.  
10. ↑ Skinny model's father sues the hospital. In: Spiegel Online from January 19, 2011.
11. ↑ She just wanted to be a model. In: faz.net of April 17, 2011.
12. ↑ IMDb entry