Luisel Ramos

Luisel Ramos ( * ca 1984, † August 2, 2006 in Montevideo, Uruguay ) was a Uruguayan model.

She died on 2 August 2006 with only 22 years ago, when she was involved in a fashion show during Fashion Week in Montevideo. When leaving the catwalk she felt bad and then collapsed on the way to the locker room. The cause of death heart failure due to anorexia nervosa was found. The father of the model, the former international footballer Luis Ramos told investigators later the police that his daughter had not eaten for several days. You have kept a strict diet in the last three months before her death, and by shedding twelve kilograms. At the time of her death, she weighed only 50 kg at a height of 175 centimeters. This corresponds to a Body Mass Index ( BMI) of 16.3. The World Health Organization considers a BMI of 18 at the border with malnutrition.

As a result of the death of Luisel Ramos ordered the organizers taking place in September 2006 Madrid Fashion Week that only models may be used whose BMI is at least 18. So you triggered a debate in the Western press about a real relationship between size and weight for models. Many important fashion designers continue to exist on models with a BMI of 16 (size 0), but Giorgio Armani example banished these ultra-slim models from its fashion shows.

In October 2006, died at the Brazilian Ana Carolina Reston Macan another model also from anorexia. A third tragic death a few months later, when on 13 February 2007 succumbed to the younger sister of Luisel, the 18 -year-old Eliana Ramos, a heart attack occurred. It is thought that it was a result of eating disorders in their case.