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An 21-year-old Brazilian model died of anorexia one day before she was scheduled to fly to Paris for a photo shoot, local media reported Wednesday.
Ana Carolina Reston was 1.74 meters (5.6 feet) tall and weighed 40 kilos (88 pounds) when she died on Tuesday.
Reston, who worked for Brazil's l'Equipe modeling agency, was hospitalised three weeks ago due to a kidney malfunction.
"She had no resistance and the medication had no effect because of her extreme weakness," her aunt Mirthes Reston told journalists.
A model since the age of 13, Reston had worked in Japan, Mexico, China and Turkey.
Her death came after organizers of a major Madrid fashion show barred excessively skinny models from their catwalks in September, citing legislation aimed at fighting anorexia, a sometimes fatal disease in which people starve themselves to be thin.
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