Jessica Simpson Brought To Tears By Anorexic Model Isabelle Caro (VIDEO)

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Jessica Simpson appeared on 'Oprah' on Wednesday, where she discussed her anger with John Mayer for calling her his "sexual napalm," revealed that her infamous "mom jeans" were actually a size 4, and promoted her new VH1 show "The Price of Beauty."

In one clip that makes the show look pretty interesting, Simpson and her best friends Ken Paves and CaCee Cobb travel to Paris to meet former model Isabelle Caro, who suffers from a severe case of anorexia. Caro made headlines when, at 62 pounds, she posed nude for an anti-anorexia billboard.

Caro said that a designer told her she needed to lose ten kilos (22 pounds) if she wanted to model. A few years ago she was in a coma and was expected to die, but now she's started eating little by little, she says. Caro is now trying to pass a law in Parliament saying that you can't model if you're too skinny. Jessica, who was brought to tears by her story, told Caro "To us, what you're doing right now makes you one of the most beautiful people that we have ever seen."

After watching the clip, which brought her to tears again, Simpson tells Oprah "It makes me very emotional because just the pressure that women feel to be thin or to be beautiful--the pressure that the media puts on women--is so unfair and so disgusting."

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[pthesmith]

11:56 PM on 03/06/2010

jessica simpson is neither articulate nor intelligent enough to host a program like this. she continuously brings the discussion back to herself. additionally, I believe she committed a faux pas in her conversation with Caro.

[stargazer13]

10:52 PM on 03/06/2010

Jessica Simpson you have have gained my respect !!

YOU GO GIRL !!! long time coming !! women are breaking under this pressure !

and have since it began ! I am glad you have chose to Highlight this very important issue !

it concerns the mental health of our society ! really if you think about it !

so many tears across the age spectrum ! to much to write !

[CityGardner]

11:35 AM on 03/06/2010

Good for you, Jessica Simpson, for having a heart and reacting with real feeling.

For myself, I *really* don't want to see a nude photo of this poor woman. Seeing her horribly starved, walking-corpse face was enough of a shock. I wish her good luck, and I hope she recovers from this terrible experience, and goes on to live a good and rewarding life.

[CheechandBruno]

01:58 PM on 03/05/2010

It’s really all in our heads; media plays too big of a role in the way people think they should look… I don’t let magazines and tv sway me to look any which way other than what I want to be, and less weight will never make me a happier person, so I choose to enjoy my life one day at a time and worry about what’s really important.

[NevaforLeadership]

07:16 AM on 03/05/2010

One of the top causes of Anorexia is publicity about the condition.

[Chauncey Zalkin]

11:56 AM on 03/05/2010

wow really why? where did you hear that?

[BlueTidalWave]

03:47 PM on 03/07/2010

That is absolutely false. Please do not spread lies.

[R Gary Fenske]

05:18 PM on 03/04/2010

O.K... I agree it is bad, and wrong, but if people like Jessica Simpson want to change things, then she needs to stop wearing so much make-up, and try to be "more natural", in EVERYTHING she does?? It's called, setting the example? You can't buy change... although, lobbyists do a pretty good job... but that is a different topic!!

[Chauncey Zalkin]

11:58 AM on 03/05/2010

what? that is absurd! makeup has nothing to do with anorexia. thats her taste in decoration. what on earth does that have to do with starving yourself until your sick? very judgmental. very arbitrary.

[qaan]

10:07 AM on 03/28/2010

I think the point RGF was trying to make was that some women believe that there are highly specific things that are needed for them to feel like they are able to be "above average" (or higher) than others with respect to external attractiveness. Whether it is makeup, breast size or overall weight, focusing on these things can lead to a person's devaluation of who they are as individuals.

Your point is correct in that anorexia is a very severe and life-threatening psychopathology which needs extensive long-term support to treat.

With respect to makeup, I think some women who have had bad cases of teenage acne may use it to cover up scars. Some women use a little enhancement. And some women see their faces as an unfrosted cake. That's when makeup can turn into goop, and women who use goop will attract men who are into goop. (Not that it's all about attracting men, but I think you get my point.)

[Retrofuturistic]

04:55 PM on 03/04/2010

There's something poisonously wrong with our culture. Women go around trying to be perfect because they think it will make them loveable.

But the entire culture (the media, the expectations of men who see women only as objects to be exploited for sex or money, even the religion) tells them they are "wrong", not valuable, and their gifts are not wanted. The smarter they are, the more they feel this.

So women end up feeling like everything they do is wrong: They're too pretty, not pretty enough, too smart, not smart enough, etc. If they have children, they are tying down a man. If they don't have children, there is something wrong with them. All of these things about the "wrongness" of women allow the men to blame them for anything that goes wrong; they are universal scapegoats. It's not Jesus who is the scapegoat to accept all of a man's sins; it's women.

[qaan]

10:17 AM on 03/28/2010

It's sad that people in general (And Americans in particular) are being taught to devalue themselves in so many different ways. Women have it much rougher than men in this respect. Just look at the magazines in the aisle of the supermarket checkout line. There are no photos of average-looking men and women. Why? Because beauty is something that almost everyone values, and we have been taught that these photos represent what beautiful people look like in real life.

Television. Movies. Fashion magazines. MTV. Billboards. Advertising in general has helped to create unrealistic images for people to aspire to, while simultaneously creating a market of insecure people to peddle their goods to. And people who have been brainwashed by these ads tend to judge people by those standards, so they make negative comments to people which serves to devalue them even more.

[TrueBud]

03:00 PM on 03/04/2010

The interview was about a girl who got into modeling and the unhealthy environment and bizarre expectations of that industry led her to a terrible situation. Part of those expectations were the unhealthy portrayals of women you are referring to. I don’t buy Jessica Simpsons summation at the end for a second. The fashion industry is vain, superficial, self-centered, and ludicrous. It ALWAYS HAS BEEN. Those in the industry have ALWAYS peddled a false ideal in one form or another. That this woman didn't have the slightest clue what she was getting into, didn’t understand the expectations, and didn't do ANY research into industry she wanted to work in is just reckless on her part.

Oprah and Jessica can try to make this about ALL women, but to blame “the media” is just easy and lazy. Marketing for all times of products depends on making you insecure about something; why would you buy the product that “solves” the problem if you didn’t think there was a problem? There are plenty of women who don't pay attention to some anonymous opinion of what they should and shouldn't look like. Even when the message is being pushed on them, this false ideal doesn't happen in a vacuum. Many of those who push unhealthy ideas about body type out there are women. Peer pressure, competition, even family pressure has a bigger impact than some random Vogue cover. Women do it to women; I saw it all through high school.

[SukiTheCat]

01:22 PM on 03/04/2010

I know being insensitive here, but somehow I can't feel sorry for someone that does this to themselves. I understand lots of women have self esteem problems, but there has to be a point where you just snap out of it and realize the error in your thinking; see a psychiatrist, go to support groups, why allow yourself to get down to 62 lbs?

[westphilly726]

02:20 PM on 03/04/2010

Cosign

[TeeDub]

06:19 PM on 03/04/2010

Way to miss the point. I give you credit however for the huge effort you obviously put forth to be so willfully ignorant.

[Stephanie Jevtic]

12:23 PM on 03/04/2010

Very nice, bon travail Jessica & Isabella

[thisisntme]

11:29 AM on 03/04/2010

Thank you Jessica Simpson.

[equianimi]

11:05 AM on 03/04/2010

I'm a guy, and everytime I see those Victoria's Secret commercials I just get sick. You can count every rib on those girls and they don't have any actual boobage, it's just pads in the bras. Sure it's fine to be stick thin if you eat plenty and just exercise plenty, but you know these girls are just starving themselves or they'd have some muscle somewhere.

[uhavenoface]

04:49 PM on 03/04/2010

it's like you started heading towards feminism but then you hit the supercharger and flew right through town and looped back to objectifying women all in one sentence. impressive

[TeeDub]

06:20 PM on 03/04/2010

concur...very impressive

[CityGardner]

11:43 AM on 03/06/2010

:^) Live long and prosper, Equianimi.

[IsyFleur]

10:24 AM on 03/04/2010

As long as women keep buying women's magazines and Victoria's Secret bras, they participate in this form of oppression.

[DWGRadio]

11:02 AM on 03/04/2010

That's right - go braless ladies!

[Chauncey Zalkin]

12:01 PM on 03/05/2010

DWGRadio: lol (some comments here are outrageous, sweeping suggestions.)

[nightwind928]

09:58 AM on 03/04/2010

I see a lot of posted here blaming men for this thing. Sorry, it's not a mans fault that you don't eat regular healthy meals and look like a walking corpse. Neither is it a mans fault that you cram that Twinkie into your face, drink that two liter of Pepsi and look like Shamu. The reason you have trouble is that YOU didn't take responsibility for YOURSELF. If your boyfriend is obsessed with your weight, dump him. Don't whine about how it's mens fault you look the way you do. It's YOUR FAULT. It's your life, your health and your piece of mind, not the entire male population on the planet. If a guy can't see you as the beautiful creature you are, then you need to find somebody who does. There are plenty of guys out here who think that a well proportend women is a beautiful thing. We don't read Vogue or Cosmo...we just know what we like. We didn't tell you to stick your finger down your throat and barf up your breakfast or starve yourself ...you did that all on your own because of your lack of respect for your own self image.

[MinisterMelinda]

10:08 AM on 03/04/2010

Compassion is not your strong suit, huh?
A drug addict should just stop doing drugs too and man up?

[jeffhrsn]

11:05 AM on 03/04/2010

Yes.

[TrueBud]

03:20 PM on 03/04/2010

Tough love.

[nicnack74]

10:15 AM on 03/04/2010

Clearly you don't have an eating disorder. Rarely is it that simple. EVERYTHING in western culture is about beauty and how to attain it. This starts in MIDDLE SCHOOL. Unless you have a parent actively promoting healthy self esteem around the clock, a female is destined to have flawed thinking about her appearance. That coupled with some compulsive behavior and control issues is a nice recipe for an eating disorder. Don't preach what you don't understand.

[machineiv]

10:36 AM on 03/04/2010

Middle school? Hell, look at Joan Benet Ramsey.

[TrueBud]

03:20 PM on 03/04/2010

"Don't preach what you don't understand."

Then why are you typing?

[Kate Stoune]

09:49 AM on 03/04/2010

She is trying to make the world a better place ... how can you not help but love and support this woman and her family in what they are trying to do?

I, for one, say Thank You Jessica & Co. :-)