Top 10 Fashion Models who Committed Suicide
Fashion models are praised for the glamourous lifestyle they lead but their world also has a darkside. All that glitters is not gold; we heard this aphorism on countless occasions in life. The glitz and glamour of the modelling world looks fascinating and appealing from afar and for a random person like you and me it’s a magical life! Lights, lavish and high-priced clothes; breath-taking shoes and accessories; striking hair-dos and dazzling after-parties dominate life on the runway. But there is some kind of emptiness or void that accompanies people in the modelling world which leads to tragic endings. Suicides are quite common in the world of modelling. Suicides in that world are so frequent that it can be termed ‘Fashion’s worst trend’. History has been witness to the tragic stories of models who committed suicides in spite of successful careers in the ramp. Let us have a look at some of those stars whose curtains closed before their time.
10.Kuljeet Randhawa
She was a Gladrags model and an Indian television actress who worked in ‘Kohinoor’, ‘Hip Hip Hurray’, ‘C.A.T.S’ and ‘Special Squad’. She ended her life on 8th February 2006 by hanging herself. Randhawa’s death had an eerie similarity to her friend’s Nafisha Joseph’s who too left this world in a similar fashion. It was strange as her friends and family seemed to have thought that things were looking up for her better modelling assignments and television roles.
9.Tom Nicon
Who says the fashion world and its added pressures gets only to the
female models? The dark side of life catches up without bias to both
sexes. Tom Nicon was one of the leading French fashion models who
committed suicide at the age of 22 by jumping from the window of his
fourth floor apartment. Though no suicide note was found it was
speculated that the drastic step was taken by Tom out of depression of
his break up. Tom had worked for Vogue, Louis Vuitton, GQ and Bruberry
and had been part of several fashion shows for high end fashion brands.
His career graph was impressive and had potential of reaching even
greater heights but that all stopped suddenly when he decided to put a
stop to his life.
8.Lina Marulanda
She was a Colombian model and television presenter who died after
falling from the balcony of her sixth floor apartment. Her death has
been considered as possible suicide as she was in the middle of divorce
with her second husband at the time of the incident. It was reported
that she was highly depressed and on medication at the time. Her death
has been considered as another heartbreaking tale of failure in matters
of the heart.
7Hayley Marie Kohle
She was a Canadian fashion model who began her career in the year 2000.
Like others, she too died by falling off the balcony of her high rise
apartment in Milan on 11th October 2008. Her death was ruled
as suicide. She was just 26 at the time of her death. It was told that
she went out to take a smoke in the balcony and suddenly took the
extreme step.
6.Lucy Gordon
Lucy Gordon was a British actress and model. She died by hanging herself in her apartment in Paris on 20th
May 2009. Trouble in her personal life has been attributed as a
possible reason behind the drastic step she took which included the
death of a close friend of hers, also by suicide. She also had a brief
appearance in Spiderman 3.
5.Ruslana Korshunova
Ruslana Korshunova was one of the most successful Kazakh fashion models
who established herself as a rising star in the fashion industry much
before the tender age of 20. Beginning her career at 15 her clientele
included Vogue, Vera Wang and Nina Ricci. She died by falling from her 9th
floor balcony in Manhattan on 28 June 2008. Though no suicide note was
found and there was no sign of any struggle in her apartment, her death
being termed as suicide was controversial. Many are of the opinion that
Ruslan was in fact murdered as she was happy and had recently returned
from an assignment in Paris looking forward to celebrate her 21st birthday.
4. Ambrose Olsen
Another name in the long list of fashion models who committed suicide.
Ambrose was a known face in the fashion world. He has worked for a long
list of clients which include TNT, Hugo Boss, D&G, Nautica, Yves
Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Giorgio Armani and Extreme
Attitude among a host of others. He committed suicide by hanging at the
age of 24 on 22 April 2010.
3.Daul Kim
Daul Kim was an international supermodel from South Korea who died by committing suicide on 19th
November 2009. She was found hanging in her apartment in Paris. Apart
from being a model, Kim was a painter and a blogger too and her
depression often found an outlet through these interests of hers. She
had often written about the loneliness in her life and her desire to
hurt herself. In fact she had blogged about how overworked and dejected
she was which perhaps led her to take that extreme step.
2.Nafisa Joseph
Miss India 1997 and among the top 10 semi-finalists’ of Miss Universe
that year, Nafisa Joseph wasn’t an ordinary girl. She appeared in the
television series C.A.T.S alongside Kuljeet Randhawa and was also the
presenter of a show in MTV India. She was one of the hugely successful
fashion models but hanged herself in her apartment on 29 July 2004. It
is said that the reason for her going the distance to end her life was
her marriage being called o
1.Marilyn Monroe Or Norma Jean
She needs no introduction, does she? One of the world’s most
beautiful actresses, fashion models and singers, Marilyn Monroe rose to
fame in the 1950s and 1960s. But on 5 August 1962, she left the world
in mysterious circumstances. Though her death was later pronounced as
suicide due to acute barbiturate poisoning, many theories exist with
respect to her death including murder. There were reports of her having
called President Kennedy before her death leading to a sort of scandal
for the Kennedy family. Conjectures about her death and its
circumstances are till today among the world’s most thriving conspiracy
theories.
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