I Googled her, using the image search function. In addition to the scary familiar pictures of her, there are three or four fashion shoots that look enough like her that I don’t doubt their authenticity (one of them by the same photographer as the billboard picture). I suspect more will come to light in the coming weeks. She was never a household name; few Benetton models are.
If you want me to produce her original Hawaiian birth certificate, that might be beyond my present abilities.
I can provide tons of pictures of models that ‘look enough like’ me. That doesn’t mean I have ever been a fashion model.
I did the Google image search too and didn’t see any photos of Isabelle Caro where she wasn’t shockingly emaciated. There are quite a few images mixed in there of well-known non-56-lb runway models tagged ‘Isabelle Caro’, including Magdelena Frankowiak. I still say she has never been a model, and I don’t think you will be able to produce any evidence she has. Her wiki is pretty good - no mention there of her doing any sort of traditional, product-promoting modeling. Neither does her blog.
Do any of them turn up in a Google search of your name?
I don’t read French. I imagine we’ll just have to settle for harboring our own suspicions until an in-depth magazine article (****Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair cover this sort of thing, just not yet for her) sorts out the career of this woman I’d never heard of before she died last week. All the initial news reports called her a model and mentioned the scary billboard; not sure what impact it was supposed to have if she weren’t in the fashion industry.
Are you talking naturally skinny or intentionally starving themselves skinny? To me personally, I find women who are ‘too’ thin or too fit or too athletic somewhat off putting. It usually sends a signal to me that they are probably overcompensating for some deep seated emotional insecurity, or their priorities aren’t that great (a person’s appearance is important, but not ‘that’ important that it should become your main focus in life). I don’t know if that sounds defensive or like sour grapes, but its really not the thinness (or how fit they are, etc) as much as the psychological implications behind it that I’d be factoring in with the attractiveness.
If a woman is just naturally 100 pounds, I could probably go with that. But a woman who starves herself down to 110~ would probably not be very attractive.
But if you are going strictly by appearance and not factoring all that stuff in, I really don’t know. As long as she doesn’t look physically sick I guess would be my answer.
As my friends know, if I weren’t happily married, I’d probably be stalking Keira Knightley right now. I think she looks great - thin, yes, but with the face of an angel:
http://www.vivagoal.com/images/wallpapers/keira-knightley-7.jpg
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http://thekeiraknightley.com/userfiles/2010/6/4/images/Keira%20Knightley%20'stalker'%20trial%20begins.jpg
http://www.celebrityspud.com/images/female-celebrities/keira-knightley/thumb.jpg
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http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Keira_Knightley%20-%204%20-%20Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean.jpg
That said, I’ve seen some photos where she looked waaaaaaaay too thin. FWIW, she sued The Daily Mail a few years ago for saying she was anorexic, and won a settlement.
If I were actually dating her, yeah, I wouldn’t mind if she put on ten pounds at least. But it’s her decision, not mine or anyone else’s.
The impact of the billboard is that she looks like she’s already dead. Unlike every fashion model.
I’ve been familiar with Isabelle Caro since the billboard came out in 2007. See this article from that time, which says she is not a model.
That billboard was a statement about the possible damaging effects of full-blown anorexia nervosa, which many people believe the modern super-thin aesthetic contributes to triggering in young girls. It was a direct contrast between the super-skinny but still beautiful and vibrant fashion models, and the ugly horror which is actual emaciation and starvation. The billboard was saying something like ‘Fashion models may be beautiful, but this is what can happen to you if you try to starve yourself to pursue that ideal of thinness - you can become a monster, and die’.
That’s definitely true for me. I think that’s her best role so far, and I find that pictures of her from that movie are the most appealing to me.
She also has a giant vein going up the side of her forehead. It’s really distracting - I can’t stop looking at it everytime I watch the show.
I’m female - I think Kate Winslet as she was during *Titanic *is gorgeous. If I recall correctly, she was frequently labeled as fat then. I wish I had a clue who’s popular now; the most attractive body type I can think of right now is Jennifer Grey when she was in Dirty Dancing (though she could’ve used a little more in the chest area), but that was a long, long time ago.
The cartoon, not the awful live action film, is a parody of sexiness. I have had trouble convincing various women of this. They believe that the unbelievably bony figure with enormous breasts is what men really want.
I’m not sure just where the line is for me. But, Aeon is definitely on the far side.
On a related note, wasn’t the animated Aeon Flux character drawn to resemble a young Sigourney Weaver? They certainly looked similar.
Articles written since then say something different, and the flood of in-depth articles following her death have not yet been published. We are looking at the same scant data and drawing different conclusions.
Aeon Flux was a satire of action movies/comics/anime in general, not just the sexiness part. I’m not ashamed to admit I missed that completely the first time I saw it, and dismissed it as a crappy knock-off. Grew to appreciate it later, though I thought the shorts were better than the storyline.
Ok, I’m a little ashamed, but I can handle it.
As for real life, I’m having a hard time thinking up celebrities that are particularly skinny, and who I would recognize. Most actresses have a very narrow build, but aren’t noticeably underweight. Musicians vary more, but honestly, I can’t remember what most of them look like.
Natalie Imbruglia is, or at least was, pretty noodley, but still sexy in a vulnerable, big-eyed, indie-kid kind of way.
Ellen Foley, despite being wafer-thin and buried under several layers of bulky-shouldered 80’s power-outfits, managed to be surprisingly sexy for the season she was on Night Court. That was almost all personality, though. I never saw her in anything else, though, so it might have been a short-term feistyness peak.
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I’m just saying, if Madonna really wanted to make out on stage with a late-90’s artist half her age, Imbruglia would have been a better choice. Better contrast of body types and stage personas.
Before Night Court, she was best known as the female vocalist on Meat Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” In concert, that role was covered by Carla DeVito.
Well, there you go. That pushed the envelope from feisty to downright domme-ey in places.
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Especially considering she seems to weigh about the same as Meatloaf’s left arm . . .
Hell, his left forearm.
The vast majority of women would look terrible at Keira Knightley’s weight. Knightley herself is a very rare case, in that she does look very good at that weight. To be fair, I’m not certain exactly why I find her as attractive as I do: Her face is nice, sure, but I can think of a fair number of celebrities with better faces who I would nonetheless not consider quite as attractive overall. My best guess is that it’s something about how she moves, since I find that she doesn’t fare nearly as well in most still photos.