Ruslana Korshunova R.i.p.

[nikki99]

[tony286]

a beautiful girl so sad.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

What a way to go out - and only 20 years old...

NEW YORK - A 20-year-old woman identified by local media as Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova plunged to her death from a Manhattan apartment on Saturday in an apparent suicide.

Police said only that the woman was discovered dead in front of an apartment building in downtown Manhattan, near the financial district and the South Street Seaport tourist area.

Korshunova had graced the covers of European editions of Elle and Vogue and walked the catwalks for designers including Betsey Johnson and Jill Stuart.

Witnesses described seeing her plunge from a ninth-floor balcony in the building on Saturday afternoon.

Local media, citing police sources, said there was no sign of a struggle inside her apartment and that Korshunova was believed to have leaped to her death.

A friend told The New York Post, however, that Korshunova had just returned from a modelling job in Paris and seemed "on top of the world."

"There were no signs," the unidentified friend was quoted as saying. "I don't see one reason why she would do that."

Korshunova, a native of Kazakhstan, had been profiled in British Vogue in recent years as a new face to watch, and she was featured in ads by Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior and DKNY.

A spokesman for Korshunova's agency, IMG, which also handles Heidi Klum and Kate Moss, said "We're shocked and our heart goes out to her family," the Daily News reported.

Sad...

ADG

[sicone]

Wow...

RIP

[Iron Fist]

a beautiful girl so sad.

If she were ugly it wouldn't be so sad?

[Spunky]

Poor girl..very sad at so young..RIP

[Mutt]

omg that is sad - suicide for sure?

[Iron Fist]

omg that is sad - suicide for sure?

Actually sounded more like an accident... she leaned against the balcony railing and oopsie!

[tony286]

If she were ugly it wouldn't be so sad?

I saw the pictures and thought she is beautiful and its sad. Is that hard to understand?

[tony286]

Actually sounded more like an accident... she leaned against the balcony railing and oopsie!

I knew a girl when I lived in NYC, she was bi polar and stopped taking her meds. She jumped nude off of her 20th story terrace.

[marketsmart]

very sad...

[RyuLion]

so sad........

[DWB]

cock or no cock?

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

As they say, that first step is a doosie...



Must be tough getting 10K+ a day to walk back and forth on a runway, and be paid even more posing for fashion rags with top photographers.

Now that I think about it (if it was suicide), boo fugging hoo...

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[Iron Fist]

Now that I think about it (if it was suicide), boo fugging hoo...

Thank you, that is EXACTLY what I think - it's not sad - it's just plain stupid.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Now that I think about it (if it was suicide), boo fugging hoo...

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Yeah because knowing what somebody does for a living means we know anything about her actual life.

[Iron Fist]

Yeah because knowing what somebody does for a living means we know anything about her actual life.

Never said that, but if you've got the resources to get help, then why shouldn't someone who's close to you provide that help? Her death is only tragic in that everyone who proclaims to care about her, would kick her to the curb if given the chance. Britney Spears is another great example of this.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Never said that, but if you've got the resources to get help, then why shouldn't someone who's close to you provide that help? Her death is only tragic in that everyone who proclaims to care about her, would kick her to the curb if given the chance. Britney Spears is another great example of this.

We had a friend of the family's son kill himself last year (almost exactly a year ago, actually). He had so much help given to him and his parents simply couldn't have cared more for him or done more to help him. They had given him so much love and gotten him all the help they could from the first time he started to show 'issues' at about 10 years old. Still, at 23 he pulled his car over on the highway, got out and stood in the path of a tractor trailer. Sometimes even when people give you whatever they can give you are still going to do it.

[Iron Fist]

We had a friend of the family's son kill himself last year (almost exactly a year ago, actually). He had so much help given to him and his parents simply couldn't have cared more for him or done more to help him. They had given him so much love and gotten him all the help they could from the first time he started to show 'issues' at about 10 years old. Still, at 23 he pulled his car over on the highway, got out and stood in the path of a tractor trailer. Sometimes even when people give you whatever they can give you are still going to do it.

Good point - then it isn't tragic or sad - it's stupid.

[Sarah_Jayne]

I just count whatever blessings are out there that even though I have been through depression I have never been to that level.

[bausch]

It has been confirmed as suicide and there has been speculation that she might have been bipolar too. She was posting on her blogs before death.

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Model's Web rants pined for love
BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA AND BRIAN HARMON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Sunday, June 29th 2008, 2:30 AM

Love meant everything to her.
Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova poured her heart out on the Web in the months leading to her apparent suicide.
"Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably," the sandy-haired knockout wrote in a poem that concluded: "And never regret anything that made you smile."
The Kazakh beauty wrote that love "blinds," "sets souls afire," and "is always the answer" in emotion-soaked passages posted on a social networking site.
Korshunova volleyed between Russian and English in her heartfelt prose, but love was a central theme no matter the language. "Do not confuse love and desire," she wrote in Russian in her most recent posting May 30. "Love is the sun, desire - only flash. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life."
The soulful note warns of the perils of sacrifice.
"Love does not take away from one in order to give to another," wrote Korshunova, a 20-year-old thousands of miles from her native Kazakhstan. "Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another."
Korshunova's most telling message came three months ago: "I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?"
She appeared angry in some postings, brokenhearted in others.
"I'm a bitch. I'm a witch. I don't care what you say!!!" she wrote March 11. "I know what it is. I know why my other relationships didn't work out, 'cause I'm unpredictable. Why are you afraid of it?"
In January, she wrote, "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," she wrote in a March note.

[bausch]

Has been confirmed as suicide

Model's death ruled a suicide

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sunday, June 29th 2008, 2:07 PM

The death of a model who plunged from the ninth floor of a Manhattan building has been ruled a suicide.

Ruslana Korshunova died from blunt impact injuries in the fall Saturday afternoon, said Megan Cuccia, a spokeswoman for the city's medical examiner.

The fall was from her apartment in the Financial District. Korshunova, 20, was a native of Kazakhstan who graced the cover of top fashion magazines.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008...a_suicide.html

[bausch]

In addition, Kazakh catwalker Ruslana Korshunova had lost a lot of weight in the last month and had trouble balancing her personal life and her demanding work schedule, her bewildered ex-boyfriend said yesterday.

"I think she just gave up," said Artem Perchenok, 24, who was with Korshunova on the last night of her short life.

The 5-foot-8 head-turner, who liked camping and fishing, kept her problems "bottled up," he said. "When a job would go bad, she'd take it out on herself."

But her latest beau, Mark Kaminsky, 32, of Staten Island - who said he talked with Ruslana hours before her suicide plunge - insisted the beauty was "liking what she did."

"She was a love for me," he said, noting the first time he saw her he gushed: "I'm in shock over your beauty."

To outsiders, it appeared the one-time Russian Vogue cover girl was living a charmed life.
She had a full schedule of high-profile modeling gigs in New York and had recently returned from Paris.

"She loved life," one Russian friend told The Post, while another, Maxim Ilin, said she "was the most cheerful and positive person I knew."

Perchenok speculated, "She was doing great [in her career]. Maybe she was overworked.

"It [her career] was taking off. She was busy, busy. When you're 20 years old and you travel the world, how can you complain? But . . . your family's back home and people are telling you what to do and how much to eat and how to walk."

The size-4 stunner appeared to have dropped some serious weight from her already thin frame and was complaining about a stomachache in the four or five days before her death.

Source: Nypost

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There is also speculation that the suicide may have been due to sadness because of a breakup with her ex bf...

[Sethseekstruth]

she was Mitt Romney's mistress

and she was killed because he is going to be offered the veep spot..read the Village Voice

[bausch]

Ruslana at fashion show for Bill Blass

[spacedog]

Pretty girls shouldn't kill themselves. Actually, most people shouldn't.. Life's too short as it is..

[Manowar]

I knew a girl when I lived in NYC, she was bi polar and stopped taking her meds. She jumped nude off of her 20th story terrace.

Ouch, a fast life will do that kind of stuff to you

[tranza]

That's sad...she was very beautiful...RIP

[After Shock Media]

I was about to guess it would be possibly issues related to weight.

Seems it is sad to some if they kill themselves quick. However not as sad if they need to starve themselves to dangerous levels (which could alter brain btw) in order to work. I guess slow suicide is permitted and not so sad.

[raven1083]

whats the cause of her death! Shes too young!

[Scott McD]

Damn, only 20 !

R.I.P

[After Shock Media]

whats the cause of her death! Shes too young!

My educated guess.

Impact.

[alby_persignup]

so young....sad.

[Kudles]

How come we are fighting a war and a stupid model who KILLS HERSELF gets news headlines everywhere? She did it too herself so obliviously she is a lot more happier now.

[The Duck]

excellent hair

[Marky333]

very young ... dang ... God rest her soul!

[Ramp]

rest in peace....

[pornguy]

As they say, that first step is a doosie...



Must be tough getting 10K+ a day to walk back and forth on a runway, and be paid even more posing for fashion rags with top photographers.

Now that I think about it (if it was suicide), boo fugging hoo...

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Must be a rough life. huh.

[carol.prime]

WTF! any pics of her ex? how could a young hot pretty girl would end his life just for a bitch whore guy??

[Michaelious]

Really sad story!

[SCORE Ralph]

Damn, thats harsh.

[Antonio]

Must be tough getting 10K+ a day to walk back and forth on a runway, and be paid even more posing for fashion rags with top photographers.

hahaha, if only

try telling that to Naomi Campbell

[cattivo-3xeg]

fuck that sucks

[SykkBoy]

one thing that tears up young girls more than porn is fashion modeling....

[payd2purv]

I can only imagine what kind of life she has had..

Everyone around her is just there to make money off of her or to fuck her.

If she was bi-polar tho.. then I feel less sorry for her cause she was just sick..

[bausch]

Clues are that it had to do with unrequited love and an ex boyfriend who broke her heart. That's what she was hinting at on her blogs. NOT the fashion industry.

[shekinah]

Poor she.. she's too young to die.. I'm sure she could still find someone else to love if she continued living

[CaptainHowdy]

Poor thing...

[bloggingseo]

That's just absolutely terrible