Luisel Ramos
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Luisel Ramos Arregui (April 12, 1984 – August 2, 2006) was a Uruguayan model.
Biography
Early life
Ramos was born in La Unión, a middle-class neighborhood in Montevideo,[1] the daughter of former footballer Luis Ramos, who played for the Uruguay national team at the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England and Elsa Arregui, an athlete and gym teacher. Her sister Eliana Ramos was also a model.
Death
On August 2, 2006, at 9:15 p.m., Ramos died of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa[2] while participating in a fashion show during the Montevideo Fashion Week. Ramos had felt ill after walking the runway and subsequently collapsed unconscious on her way back to the dressing room. She died at the age of 22. Ramos' father told police that she had gone "several days" without eating. She was reported to have adopted a diet of lettuce and Diet Coke for the three months before her death.[3] At the time of her death, she had a body mass index (BMI) of just 14.5. She weighed 44 kg (96.8 lbs) at a height of 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in).[citation needed] The World Health Organization classifies a BMI of under 16 as severe thinness.[4] Her remains are buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo.
In the wake of Ramos' death, the Madrid Fashion Week (held in September 2006) set a minimum BMI of 18 for all models.[3] In December that year, Italian fashion designers banned size zero models from walking down their catwalks.[citation needed]
On February 13, 2007, Luisel's 18-year-old sister Eliana Ramos, also a model, died at her grandparents' home in Montevideo of an apparent heart attack,[5] believed to be related to malnutrition.[6]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Modelos Muertas Por Anorexia y Bulimia".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tomato diet model dies of anorexia". Liberty Post. November 18, 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-27.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Survival of the thinnest". Melbourne: The Age. October 5, 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-27.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Global Database on Body Mass Index". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Family tragedy as two sisters, both models, die". Sydney Morning Herald. February 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Second model sister dies of malnutrition". Sydney Morning Herald. February 14, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
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