Ruslana Korshunova seemed to have it all. She was young, slim, tall, and her stunning beauty earned her the nickname “Russian Rapunzel”. In 2005, she was hailed by British Vouge as the “face to be excited about”. Russian Vouge and French Elle called her the “fashion’s muse of the moment”. Her modeling work spanned Marc Jacobs, DKNY and Nina Ricci -everything that other models would die for.
So why did she take her life last June 28? Here’s the latest news about her death:
The mother of dead Russian super model, Ruslana Korshunova, has arrived in New York to take her daughter’s body home. Ruslana plunged from her ninth floor apartment in a Manhattan high rise, in what police say was almost certainly suicide. She died four days before turning 21.
Police in New York reported no signs of a struggle inside the model’s apartment and witnesses say they saw her leap from her balcony on Saturday, just three days shy of her 21st birthday.
-Aftermath News
According to the medical examiner’s office, the cause of death was “blunt impact injuries”.
Even the supermodel’s boyfriend had no inkling why Ruslana decided to take her own life in that desperate plunger from her Manhattan apartment.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the NYDailynews, a close friend said that when Ruslana broke onto the global modeling scene in 2005, she hated her hectic life.
“I’m so lost, will I ever find myself?” were the words that she wrote in March on her page on a Russian social networking site.
It’s unfortunate that a stunner like her would have to succumb to what seemed to be a bout of depression - but for a young Kazakhstani model to suddenly find herself being thrown in the limelight in a foreign land -it all may have proven to be too much.
