Eliana Ramos Uruguayan fashion model Date of Birth: 23.12.1988 Country: Uruguay

Biography of Eliana Ramos

Eliana Ramos was a Uruguayan fashion model who tragically passed away at the young age of 18. Her story is filled with an additional level of horror, as it is suspected that she may have inadvertently caused her own death through an excessively strict diet, a practice implicitly accepted by the fashion industry. Ramos primarily worked as a model in Latin America and was contracted with the prestigious Argentine modeling agency 'Dotto Models'. She had the opportunity to travel beyond South America, spending some time working in Mexico and living in Japan for almost three months. Interestingly, her sister, Luisel, also worked as a model in Japan.

On February 13, 2007, Eliana Ramos' body was found in her grandparents' house in Montevideo, Uruguay. At the time of her death, she was just 18 years old. A preliminary examination revealed that the cause of death was a heart attack, likely brought on by the model's overall weakness due to extreme malnutrition. Eliana's parents, Luis Ramos, a former player for the Uruguayan national team, and his wife, were away on vacation in another part of the country when their daughter passed away.

Fellow models indicated to the press that Eliana Ramos suffered greatly after the death of her sister, who died at the age of 22 from heart failure. However, they did not confirm the presence of any eating disorders in Eliana, suggesting that her death was not related to her dietary habits. Luisel Ramos, the older sister, tragically passed away in August 2006, immediately after a fashion show in a hotel in Montevideo. An autopsy revealed that she died from a heart attack.

Eliana Ramos' death caused quite a stir in Latin America, with the fashion industry being heavily criticized for its alleged role in turning young women into instruments and provoking anorexia among models. Eliana was not the first model to meet such a fate, as the deaths of Ana Carolina Reston and three other Brazilian models were also attributed to anorexia. Measures to protect young women from self-destruction through anorexia were implemented not only in Latin America but also worldwide. For example, on the Madrid Fashion Week, it was prohibited to use models with a body mass index below 18, and several Italian fashion organizations later announced strict control over models' eating disorder issues.