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  My psychiatrist tells me weekly about facts I already know. He touches my bones and says that I cheat. My diet is not a diet, it is a daily party. I shall never go there again.
 
 Now, this lovely girl, whose body has been damaged by the same disease I’ve got, she’s losing her life, she’s paying the price for her power. We’re living a real tragedy, it is so real and I hate to remember this fact every morning when I step on the damn scale. Mirrors tell lies, scales tell the truth. 

yeah, she looks so fine

Here is the fact: If you think you can get me to break my fast, you’ll have to think again. Just look at me: I am nothing but skin and bones and I might easily die. And if death is the price I have to pay for my power, then I shall willingly pay it. 

   And people will never realize how bad and hard it is. Once a friend of Moms said “you’re a spoiled girl, just go and eat something, its done right?!”. No, it’s not, you’re making it even worse with your cursed words idiot.    Somewhere there are people who understand cases like mine, they pay the attention and try to provide them with the cure, they definitely make others lives better, I miss those people in my world. This lovely model who I used to adore since I was thirteen.
                     
 Anna Carolina Reston, she’s dead now. She had suffered with this sickness and then she passed away….and paid the price.
 Skinny tyranny killed my model girl

November 17, 2006 - 6:34AM
The mother of a Brazilian fashion model who died from complications of anorexia has made an emotional appeal for parents to take better care of aspiring young models.The death of Ana Carolina Reston, 21, follows growing criticism of the use of underweight models in the fashion world, an issue given new significance after the death in August of Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos of heart failure during a fashion show in Montevideo.

Reston died on Tuesday in a Sao Paulo hospital from a generalised infection caused by anorexia, an eating disorder in which sufferers obsessively deprive themselves of food in pursuit of an ultra-slim look.

Reston weighed only 40 kg and was about 1.72 metres tall. Doctors consider this weight normal for a 12-year-old girl no more than about 1.5 metres tall.

“Take care of your children … No money is worth the life of your child. Not even the most famous (fashion) brand is worth this,” her mother, Miriam Reston, told O Globo newspaper.

She said her daughter had been trying to help her family with the money she made as a model.

Miriam spoke on national television and to local newspapers to highlight the tragedy. She said she had pleaded with her daughter to eat more and to see a doctor.

“She would reply, `Mummy, don’t mess me around,’” Miriam told O Estado de S.Paulo.

“Dictatorship of skinny look kills a model,” said the front-page headline of O Dia tabloid, which carried a picture of the dark-haired, big-eyed girl in lingerie.

Many top models come from Brazil and thousands of young girls from all walks of life dream of modelling careers, inspired by the international success of Gisele Bundchen or Adriana Lima.

Reston was not famous but she had worked abroad, including in Japan, and did some jobs for Giorgio Armani and the Brazilian model agency L’Equipe.

In September, Spain caused a storm in the fashion world when Madrid barred models below a certain weight from its top fashion show. Models with a body-mass-index (BMI), which takes into account height and weight, of less than 18 were banned.

Reston’s BMI was just 13.5 while the World Health Organisation considers anyone with a BMI below 18.5 underweight. A BMI below 17.5 is criterion for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, and a BMI nearing 15 is usually used as an indicator of starvation.
 

I am paying the price, sooner or later.