Luisel Ramos

Ramos was born in La Unión, a middle-class neighborhood in Montevideo,{{Cite web|url=http://pa-fuera-telaranas.blogspot.com.ar/2008/10/modelos-muertas-por-anorexia-y-bulimia.html|title=Modelos Muertas Por Anorexia y Bulimia}} the daughter of former footballer Luis Ramos, who played for the Uruguay national team at the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England and Elsa Arregui, an athlete and gym teacher. Her sister Eliana Ramos was also a model.

On August 2, 2006, at 9:15 p.m., Ramos died of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa{{cite web| date = November 18, 2006| url = http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=166746| title = Tomato diet model dies of anorexia| publisher = Liberty Post| accessdate = 2006-11-27}} while participating in a fashion show during the Montevideo Fashion Week. Ramos had felt ill after walking the runway and subsequently collapsed unconscious 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 lettuce and Diet Coke for the three months before her death.{{cite news| date = October 5, 2006| url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/eating-disorder/survival-of-the-thinnest/2006/10/05/1159641434825.html| title = Survival of the thinnest| publisher = The Age| accessdate = 2006-11-27| location = Melbourne}} At the time of her death, she had a body mass index (BMI) of just 14.5. She weighed 44 kg (96.8 lbs) at a height of 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in).{{cn|date=September 2020}} The World Health Organization classifies a BMI of under 16 as severe thinness.{{cite web|title=Global Database on Body Mass Index|url=http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp?introPage=intro_3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509190552/http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp?introPage=intro_3.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 9, 2009|publisher=World Health Organization|accessdate=13 November 2012}} Her remains are buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo.

In the wake of Ramos' death, the Madrid Fashion Week (held in September 2006) set a minimum BMI of 18 for all models. In December that year, Italian fashion designers banned size zero models from walking down their catwalks.{{cn|date=September 2020}}

On February 13, 2007, Luisel's 18-year-old sister Eliana Ramos, also a model, died at her grandparents' home in Montevideo of an apparent heart attack,{{cite news| date = February 15, 2007| url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/sister-models-both-starve/2007/02/15/1171405328301.html| title = Family tragedy as two sisters, both models, die| publisher = Sydney Morning Herald| accessdate = 2007-02-15}} believed to be related to malnutrition.{{cite news| date = February 14, 2007| url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/second-model-sister-dies-of-malnutrition/2007/02/14/1171405285731.html| title = Second model sister dies of malnutrition| publisher = Sydney Morning Herald| accessdate = 2007-02-14}}

• List of deaths from anorexia nervosa

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• [http://www.modelsblog.info/index.php/2006/08/06/model-dies-on-the-catwalk/ News article: Model Luisel Ramos dies on the catwalk]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061018180155/http://vivirlatino.com/2006/08/03/uruguayan-model-dies-on-the-catwalk.php Model dies on catwalk]

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