Gia Marie Carangi born 29. January 1960 in Philadelphia. She is regarded as the USA's "first supermodel." She may have been a beauty, but let's face it: she's no model for anyone! And as a human being, her lifestyle was anything but super...Gia Carangi began her modeling career in 1977, stepping in a pile of luck to become a supermodel, after a photog snapped pictures of her dancing at a disco. Those pictures ended up on an exec's desk at Vogue magazine: the rest is fashion industry history!
Gia's career was short but spectacular. Her last cover was a shoot for Cosmopolitan in the winter of 1982. [source: diva] During the winter of 1985, Gia began to suspect that she might have Aids.
In 1986 Carangi was officially diagnosed with AIDS, which was a newly recognized disease at the time. As her condition worsened, she was transferred to Philadelphia's Hahnemann University Hospital. Her mother stayed with her day and night, allowing virtually no visitors... On November 18, 1986, Carangi, 26 at the time, died of AIDS-related complications. sadly, no one representing the fashion world attended her funeral.
Angeina Jolie starred in HBO’s 1998 picture "Gia", a film that examined the harsh reality of sex, drugs and drama, and even documented the destruction of Carangi’s life and career.
Life is like a monster sometimes. "Death comes like a thief in the night," "Only the good die young," (insert your own cosmic explanation here).
RIP Mariana Bridi
Incredibly beautiful 20-year old Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa's feet and hands were amputated as a result of a severe and drug-resistant infection. She passed in Janauary 2009. Twice she came close to representing Brazil in the Miss World competition. Her death attributed to complications related to a rare form of septicemia caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat released a statement noting that the bacteria was known to be resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics.
Bridi had been in the hospital since the third of January.
From the AP story: "Bridi had been in the hospital in the city of Serra in southeastern Brazil since Jan. 3. She fell ill in December and doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones, local media said.
Doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones in December, local media said. But as her condition worsened, she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that spread."
The infection reduced the oxygen in her limbs, requiring her feet to be amputated last week and her hands this week. Doctors have no idea as to what cause the infection.
Doctors removed part of Bridi's stomach as they tried to contain internal bleeding. At the time of her death, she was no longer breathing on her own.
Horrible. Awful. Terrible. Unfathomable. Sad. Scarey. Imagine this is the slow beginning of some sort of malady that may be the 21st century equivalent of the flu epidemic, the one that took out a large chunk of the world's population in the early 1900s. Like Polio did up until 1954, Like Aids did in the 1980s, influenza frightened people and baffled doctors.
I'm NOT suggesting you worry about that happening. I AM suggesting that you take a moment to appreciate your own life and those of the friends and family around you. Be glad that your song and dance has not yet ended, and prepare for the day that it surely will.
And say a prayer for Mariana's soul. She must have gone through hell the last three or four weeks.
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Angeina Jolie starred in HBO’s 1998 picture "Gia", a film that examined the harsh reality of sex, drugs and drama, and even documented the destruction of Carangi’s life and career.
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Life is like a monster sometimes. "Death comes like a thief in the night," "Only the good die young," (insert your own cosmic explanation here).RIP Mariana Bridi
Incredibly beautiful 20-year old Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa's feet and hands were amputated as a result of a severe and drug-resistant infection. She passed in Janauary 2009. Twice she came close to representing Brazil in the Miss World competition. Her death attributed to complications related to a rare form of septicemia caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat released a statement noting that the bacteria was known to be resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics.
Bridi had been in the hospital since the third of January.
From the AP story: "Bridi had been in the hospital in the city of Serra in southeastern Brazil since Jan. 3. She fell ill in December and doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones, local media said.
Doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones in December, local media said. But as her condition worsened, she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that spread."
The infection reduced the oxygen in her limbs, requiring her feet to be amputated last week and her hands this week. Doctors have no idea as to what cause the infection.
Doctors removed part of Bridi's stomach as they tried to contain internal bleeding. At the time of her death, she was no longer breathing on her own.
Horrible. Awful. Terrible. Unfathomable. Sad. Scarey. Imagine this is the slow beginning of some sort of malady that may be the 21st century equivalent of the flu epidemic, the one that took out a large chunk of the world's population in the early 1900s. Like Polio did up until 1954, Like Aids did in the 1980s, influenza frightened people and baffled doctors.I'm NOT suggesting you worry about that happening. I AM suggesting that you take a moment to appreciate your own life and those of the friends and family around you. Be glad that your song and dance has not yet ended, and prepare for the day that it surely will.
And say a prayer for Mariana's soul. She must have gone through hell the last three or four weeks.
Tags: Gia Carangi, Mariana Bridi, supermodel, Vogue Magazine, Mariana Bridi, Gia Carangi
