Jessica Simpson Visits Anorexic Model Isabelle Caro

During her recent guesting on Oprah, Jessica Simpson shares a video clip of her visit to Paris to meet Isabelle Caro, a former model who suffered a severe case of anorexia.

Isabelle Caro has made headlines when she posed nude at 62 pounds for an anti-anorexia billboard.


Along with her friends Ken Paves and CaCee Cobb, Jessica Simpson listens to Isabelle Caro as she tells her story in French. Then the interpreter shares:

"There was the fashion designer who told her you need to lose ten kilos if you want to be in the fashion world. She really decided to stop eating and to lose weight. So that's how she ended up being an anorexic. Three years ago she was in a coma. The doctor said that there was no hope left, but she survived. And after that, she decided that she had to start eating, little by little... And now Isabelle is trying to pass a law in Parliament which says that you can't model when you're too skinny."

Brought to tears by her story, Jessica Simpson tells the brave Isabelle Caro, "To us, what you're doing right now makes you one of the most beautiful people that we have ever seen."

After watching the clip, a teary-eyed Jessica Simpson tells Oprah Winfrey:

"It makes me very emotional because just the pressure that women feel to be thin or to be beautiful - the pressure that the media puts on women - is so unfair and so disgusting."

Forbes Most Powerful Celebrity And Actress Is Angelina Jolie

Forbes has released this year's Celebrity 100 list, ranking the world's most powerful celebrities from June 2008 to June 2009.

Angelina Jolie has made it to the top list, edging media maven Oprah Winfrey on the no. 1 spot for most powerful celebrities and snatching from Jennifer Aniston (not again!) the top spot for the most powerful actresses.


Angelina Jolie has made an estimated earning of $27 million last year, courtesy of her action movies Kung Fu Panda, Wanted, and the soon-to-released spy thriller Salt. The media attention from the birth of her twins, humanitarian efforts, and endless gossips and fashion citations have also contributed to her ranking.

Angelina Jolie's husband Brad Pitt ranked 9th on the list, thanks to constant media attention of his family life with the most powerful woman in the world and oh, his Academy Award nomination for doing the lead role in hit flick The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Brad Pitt's former wife Jennifer Aniston is on the 8th spot with a $25 million-earning from romantic comedies Marley and Me and He's Just Not That Into You and from the media gossips on her on-again, off-again romance with John Mayer.

Top 10 Most Powerful Celebrities:

1. Angelina Jolie
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Madonna
4. Beyonce Knowles
5. Tiger Woods
6. Bruce Sprinsteen
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Brad Pitt
10. Kobe Bryant

Top 10 Most Powerful Actresses:

1. Angelina Jolie
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Meryl Streep
4. Sarah Jessica Parker
5. Cameron Diaz
6. Sandra Bullock
6. Reese Witherspoon
8. Nicole Kidman
8. Drew Barrymore
10. Renee Zellweger

Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Celebrities is measured based on money and fame. Money is estimated from earnings made on films, television shows, endorsements, books and other entertainment ventures. Fame is calculated through Web hits on Google Blog Search, TV/radio mentions on LexisNexis, overall press mentions on Factiva, and the frequency of a celebrity's image appearance on the cover of 25 consumer magazines.

This 2009, Forbes' Celebrity 100 list couldn't help but admire La Jolie:

"She's rich. She's talented. She's beautiful. And now Angelina Jolie is the most powerful celebrity in the world."