Luisel Ramos (April 12, 1984 – August 2, 2006) was a

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an model.

Biography

Ramos was born in La Unión, a middle-class neighborhood in

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, the daughter of former footballer Luis Ramos, who played for the Uruguay national team at the

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in England and Elsa Arregui, an athlete and gym teacher. Her sister

Eliana Ramos Eliana "Elle" Ramos (December 23, 1988 – February 13, 2007) was a Uruguayan fashion model. Modeling Ramos was a fashion model in Latin America and was signed to Dotto Models, a prestigious modeling agency based in Argentina. Outside of ...

was also a model.

Personal life

Death

On August 2, 2006, at 9:15 p.m., Ramos died of

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caused by

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while participating in a fashion show during the Montevideo Fashion Week. Ramos had felt ill after walking the runway and subsequently fainted 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

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and

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for the three months before her death. At the time of her death, she had a

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(BMI) of just 14.5. She weighed 44 kg (96.8 lbs) at a height of 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in). The

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classifies a BMI of under 16 as severe thinness. Her remains are buried at

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. In the wake of Ramos' death, the

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Fashion Week (held in September 2006) set a minimum BMI of 18 for all models. In December that year,

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fashion designers banned

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models from walking down their

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s. On February 13, 2007, Luisel's 18-year-old sister

, also a model, died at her grandparents' home in Montevideo of an apparent

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, believed to be related to

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References

External links

News article: Model Luisel Ramos dies on the catwalk

Model dies on catwalk
1984 births 2006 deaths People from Montevideo Uruguayan female models Deaths from anorexia nervosa Neurological disease deaths in Uruguay Burials at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo {{Uruguay-model-stub

Biography

Personal life

Death

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References

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