Kazakh Supermodel Committed Suicide

Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova, 20 years old, leaped from the 9th floor balcony of her Manhattan apartment yesterday. The young model died from blunt impact injuries. Her death had been ruled as suicide, as several witnesses saw her leaped from the balcony of her apartment and police sources reported that there was no sign of struggle inside her apartment.


The young Ruslana Korshunova appeared in the covers of European editions of Elle and Vogue and had represented the designers Betsey Johnson and Jill Stuart on the catwalk. She was also featured in recent years of British Vogue as “the next big thing” in the modeling community and was featured in ads by Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior and DKNY.

Her family and friends do not have any idea as to what could be the motive behind her suicide. Her friends said she was in good spirit prior to the incident and that suicide was incomprehensible. Nonetheless, it was revealed that in the latest months, the top model wrote emotionally revealing poems such as, "It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out... My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high."

Even as a very promising model, Ruslana Korshunova succumbs to depressed moments in life like any other talent. Thus it is very important to seek advice from friends and from the people we trust around the industry, as well as to open our selves to others and not just keep the burdens inside and pretend that we are happy. For any models (promising or not), success does not just simply mean reaching to the top of the fashion industry, it is also surviving all the emotional confusions and personal dilemmas that are meet and left on the way.