"Ah dearest [Maid], what euill starre | On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad, | That of your selfe ye thus berobbed are"?

    . . . Ah dearest [Maid], what euill starre
   On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad,
   That of your selfe ye thus berobbed are,
And this misseeming hew your [love]ly looks doth marre?

     Edmund Spenser, The faerie queene I.viii.42.  Adapted to the anorexic supermodel from

   . . . Ah dearest Lord, what euill starre
   On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad,
   That of your selfe ye thus berobbed are,
And this misseeming hew your manly looks doth marre?

     Lady Una to her Redcrosse Knight at the point that he emerges, extremely emaciated, from a long imprisonment.
     The French model and actress Isabelle Caro is widely thought to have died of complications consequent upon anorexia nervosa.

Isabelle Caro