She worked for the big fashion houses Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein and Valentino and made the cover of the magazine Vogue. At 19, the former Canadian top model Kayley Chabot speaks on the Internet to testify to theanorexia that she lived during her modeling years. She recounts her extreme eating disorders and thealcohol abuseand of drugsthat she has known 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. “Basically they 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 website of Daily mail. The young girl then falls into the cycle of anorexia: she plays sports for five hours a day, no longer feeds, takes laxatives, sees her Body Mass Index (BMI) drop to 15, her hair falls out, and even gets scared 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 psychological and physical pain she feels. “It was a vicious cycle. Drugs made it worse. They suppressed my appetite, which kept my eating disorder alive and helped drive the chasm deeper into my skin. depression“. In 2014, then 17 years old, Kayley made the decision to stop everything and return home to Canada. She gradually recovered from her anorexia and decided to profit from her own struggle by creating a channel Youtube and an Instagram account and teaching healthy eating and healthy 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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