She passed out a few minutes before stepping onto the podium. Then after two days in a coma, Vlada Dzyuba, a young 14-year-old Russian model died of meningitis aggravated by overwork. Her mother was unable to obtain her visa in time to join her before her death.
The teenager was in Shanghai, China, on a 3-month contract with a large local modeling agency. If her contract stipulated that she could not exceed the 3 hours of weekly work, she had chained 13 consecutive hours just before her death.
“I am so tired, I would like to sleep so much”
“She called me and said, ‘Mom, I’m so tired, I would like to sleep so much,'” her mother told Russian media. “It must have been the start of the illness … and then her temperature rose. I was no longer sleeping, I called her all the time, begging her to go to the hospital,” she continues. The autopsy revealed that Vlada Dzyuba suffered from meningitis and exhaustion, which was fatal.
The girl did not even have health insurance. However, his contract did require medical coverage. The head of the Russian agency who took care of the young woman admitted not having personally verified that the terms of her contract were respected, reports the Daily Mail.
The Russian authorities speak of “forced labor” and denounce a recurring practice in the world of Chinese fashion. According to Siberian Times, China often recruits very young Russian models, most often from Siberia.
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