She has worked for major fashion houses Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein and Valentino and has been on the cover of the magazine vogue. At 19, the former Canadian top model Kayley Chabot takes the floor on the Internet to testify to theanorexia that she experienced during her modeling years. She recounts her extreme eating disorders and thealcohol abuseand of drugsshe knew in the world of fashion.
“I was only 15 and I was dying”
Kayley Chabot became a model at the age of 13 for the New York agency Ford Models. “They basically told me to lose weight and it was my job to stay slim. I heard them call me fat and I kinda quit eating“, she says on the site of the Dailymail. The young girl then falls into the spiral of anorexia: she does sports five hours a day, does not eat any more, takes laxatives, sees her Body Mass Index (BMI) dropping to 15, her hair falling out, and even becoming afraid to drink water. “I was only 15 and I was dying“, she testifies.
Fighting the standards of thinness
At the same time, Kayley quickly turns to alcohol and drugs to escape the mental and physical pain she feels. “It was a vicious circle. The drugs made it worse. They took away my appetite, which kept my eating disorder going and helped to dig deeper into the abyss of my depression“. In 2014, then aged 17, Kayley made the decision to stop everything and return home to Canada. She gradually recovered from her anorexia and decided to take advantage of her own struggle by creating a channel Youtube and an Instagram account and by teaching good nutrition and health habits to children in Bali. Kayley Chabot clarified that through her testimony, she blamed the standards of thinness and non-acceptance of oneself. Last May, a young Briton also chose the social network Instagram to testify to his fight against anorexia.
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