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."

“Never Anorexic, Just Didn't Have Time To Eat!”

"I was never anorexic, I just didn't have time to eat!"

And who else could be the most possible person to say these lines but the famous fashion model who is notorious for her waif look image – surprise, surprise, the Supermodel Kate Moss (once again).

“I didn’t eat for a long time. Not on purpose. (I was constantly) doing shows and flying economy … nobody ever fed me.

“You’d be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn’t eat it. Or I’d be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I’d get in, there wasn’t any room service.

“You go to a show, and there’s no food at all, so if you’re doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.”


The 34-year old supermodel has denied that she was anorexic during the height of her modeling career in the mid-1990s where it was estimated that she just weighed 7 stone. Once criticized for her weight, the supermodel replied “It was just the time. It was a swing from more buxom girls like Cindy Crawford and people were shocked to see what they called a 'waif'. What can you say? How many times can you say 'I'm not anorexic'?”

In her recent magazine interview, Kate Moss again defended her physique as she reasoned out, “I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, ‘I don’t want to be this skinny.”

Come to think of it. With her perpetual thin-framed, waifish look, how many times will Kate Moss claims she's not anorexic, just didn't have time to eat? And how many times will critics disagree?