Super model Kim found hanged in Paris

[The Straight Story]

Super model Kim found hanged in Paris

PARIS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Supermodel Daul Kim left messages on her Web site saying she was "depressed" and "lonely" before her body was found hanging in her Paris apartment, police said.

Police said the 20-year-old South Korean model was found dead Thursday by a friend, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Despite her success in the fashion-promotion industry where she presented the latest lines of Chanel, Dries van Noten and others, Kim had recently indicated her deep despair on her Internet blog, the Telegraph said.

In late October she announced, "I left Seoul and I'm in Paris -- I'm happy!" But then Nov. 5 she wrote: "I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain the more lonely it is ... I know I'm like a ghost."

In her final entry Nov. 18, she posted an entry titled "Say hi to forever."



http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/11/20/Super-model-Kim-found-hanged-in-Paris/UPI-97371258767426/

[crim son]

1. Hanged. How horrible. n/t

[imdjh]

2. Countdown to someone speculating on her self hatred as evidenced by blond hair...

.... and the residual effects of colonialism.

BTW, I never heard of her before this.

[malaise]

4. +1

on both counts.

[ddeclue]

15. Umm Korea was a JAPANESE colony..not a western colony.

[tuckessee]

20. You must've forgotten about the last 60 years.

That being said I don't think it has anything to do with this poor girl's tragic suicide.

[ddeclue]

29. Oh that's idiotic.. we aren't a colonial power there.. I've actually lived there.

If you want to compare Japan's brutal treatment of Korea with our role there as comparable then you really don't know what you are talking about.

We have about 38,000 troops there total, most within a few miles of the DMZ or around Osan. We don't occupy South Korea nor could we given the size of their own army being 687,000 troops. We are merely there as a trip wire to give us an excuse to fight the North Koreans should they decide to invade the South. South Korea is a constitutional democratic republic and they very often are at odds with the United States on issues of policy. We don't run South Korea.

[Retrograde]

28. maybe she just liked her hair a different color

Is every person with pink, blue, purple or whatever dyed hair self-loathing? Maybe she wanted a look that would stand out and get her more notice - isn't that what being a 'supermodel' is all about?

BTW, I never heard of her either.

[NightWatcher]

3. stressed spelled backwards is desserts. she could have used some cake

"supermodel" what was she modeling for the "before" picture at the local methadone clinic.

[TacoD]

5. More blood on Bush's hands (nt)

[TwilightGardener]

6. Hunh??

[SidDithers]

7. Huh?...nt

Sid

[HughMoran]

22. trollish!

:wtf:

[sakabatou]

26. Riiiiiiiight....

[JonQ]

30. Hah! +1

[kestrel91316]

8. Why is a woman with so little flesh she has NO BREASTS held up as some

sort of ideal? Have we learned nothing since the days of Twiggy?

[Gwendolyn]

9. That's an ignorant comment. Not all women have big breasts, regardless of weight. nt

[Bobbieo]

10. Kestrel's comment is the fashion industry is starving its models to death!

[Gwendolyn]

12. The comment wasn't expressed that way.

And there's nothing to indicate that this young woman was particularly starving herself either.

Also, Asian women in general, are often slight of build and tend toward smaller breasts. Is this body type now considered "abnormal"?

[EndersDame]

13. That still is an ignorant comment. Some women are naturally small

and dont have large breasts. They should not feel ashamed of their bodies either

[EndersDame]

11. One of my friends learned to love and accept her body because of modeling

she is from a tiny BFE Texas town and was teased for having no breasts or hips and not being curvy. She weighed about 90 pounds and wore a training bra until she had her baby and then got to have an A cup and weighed about 107. Any way she came to Austin and was told that she should be a model (catalog) ad realized she was gorgeous and shouldnt have to measure up to some ideal that she never will be.I was shocked that she would have been jealous of my body and gave me a new perspective on things. I am glad that there are thin women, curvy women , muscular women etc . It would be so boring if we are all the same body type

[Gwendolyn]

14. I've known a couple of ladies who lived in the periphery of the modeling industry for awhile too.

And just as you said, it boosted their self-esteem. Some tall, thin and boyish built girls are teased terribly throughout school.

I agree with you completely Endersdame. All body types have their own appeal and I adore the diversity too. Even though there's a hoopla about the extreme nature of the modeling biz these days, more than ever women can be who they want. We need to defend that. :)

[EndersDame]

16. I think it is just as bad to say some one is not beautiful because they are too fat

as it is to say the samething for someone being to flatchested or skinny

[Gwendolyn]

18. Yep, absolutely.

And for those who are hurt by it the most... on the one hand you end up with women on torture diets struggling to get into a smaller size, and on the other you have women going under the knife to get breast and ass implants. Crayzee!

Btw it's always nice to run into you Endersdame, hope you're doing fine! :hi:

[kestrel91316]

19. She has no breasts whatsoever. Just look at that pic on the right.

Talk about ignorant comments.

And yes, I'm a woman. With smaller than average breasts.

[Gwendolyn]

25. So? Hate to tell you but there are lots of women who are "flat as a board."

Why should that bother you in the least? We're all individuals.

[EFerrari]

23. Because the American beauty standard is more like Peter Pan

than it is like living women? Anti-gravitational, pre-pubescent, and not strings attached? lol

[JonQ]

31. Yeah, women with small breasts should be deemed hideous

and kept out of sight. Or encouraged to use surgery to correct that horrible ailment.

[blogslut]

17. So young

To lose all hope so soon.

[Barack_America]

21. Tragic.

It's so sad that nobody seems to have reached out to her.

[TexasObserver]

24. I never knew Greg Allman and Yoko Ono had a child.

[TwilightGardener]

27. Sad story--but supermodel? Looks like a scrawny adolescent boy with a wig.

Is that what we gals should aspire to now?