Mother of Anorexic Model Isabelle Caro Commits Suicide, Reports Say

NEW YORK (CBS) Less than two months after the death of  anorexic French model and actress Isabelle Caro, her mother has committed suicide, according to reports.

Marie Caro was "consumed with enormous guilt" and took her own life earlier this month, according to Britian's Daily Mail, which cites the Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes.

Isabelle Caro died in November after being admitted to a French hospital. She was 28.

"[Marie] felt guilty for having put my daughter in the Bichat Hospital. My daughter did not want to go to that hospital," Isabelle's stepfather, Christian, told the Swiss newspaper.

He had also said in a statement shortly after his stepdaughter's death that she died "from the successive consequences of negligence by the medical staff." He has since launched a legal complaint against the hospital, the Mail reports.

The model gained fame after she was featured in a 2007 advertising campaign warning against anorexia. Under the headline "No Anorexia," images across newspapers and billboards showed her naked, with her skeletal frame and facial bones protruding.

Caro said on her blog and in interviews that she had suffered from anorexia since she was 13. In 2008, she released an autobiography called "The Little Girl Who Didn't Want to Get Fat," in which she wrote that her mother appeared to resent her growing up, according to the Mail.