Pictures: Anorexic model Isabelle Caro

Isabella Caro, a French actress and model whose image appeared in this shocking Italian ad campaign has died at the age of 28. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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March 13, 2014 1:27 AM PT

Warning: These photos may be disturbing to some. They include photos from a billboard ad featuring late anorexic French model Isabelle Caro.

French model in anti-anorexia campaign dies

Caro was featured in an ad campaign by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani in 2007 for an Italian fashion house. Under the headline “No Anorexia,” images across newspapers and billboards showed Caro naked, vertebrae and facial bones protruding. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Caro said she weighed about 59 pounds when the photos for the campaign were taken. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Caro said on her blog and in interviews that she had suffered from anorexia since she was 13. She wrote a book published in France in 2008 titled “The Little Girl Who Didn’t Want to Get Fat.” (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Caro spoke out about her anorexia and her efforts to recover, and the menace of eating disorders on the fashion industry. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)