Journalist and television presenter of lifestyle magazines, Nana Karayianni, was found dead in her apartment in the district of Kypseli in Athens. The 38-year-old talented young woman had been struggling with anorexia nervosa for many years.
Her body was found on her bed in her apartment. Her concerned father who did not have any contact with her since last Sunday, informed the police that broke into the apartment with the help of a locksmith.
Police has reportedly not found signs of a crime. The deceased had last posted in her social media accounts on Monday morning.
An autopsy is to investigate the reasons for her death.
Nana Karayianni has been suffering from anorexia nervosa for more than ten years.
When she was full in the lifestyle business, she would always deny she had an eating disorder. For her co-workers and friends, she was a woman on extreme low weight. In her own eyes, she was just thin who needed to be thinner.
Citing an older interview of Karayianni, private ANT1 TV reported that there There were times when she weighted just 25-26 kilos.
She had been hospitalized several times, last time one and a half month ago, when she suffered a respiratory inflection.
Nothing would remind of the glamorous healthy young woman she once was.
At times, she was addicted to solarium.
When the social media frenzy set foot in Greece, she would tell her internet “friends” that she would eat all the time. At the same time, she would turn more and more to a shadow of her own shelf.
It is not just the eating habits that cause her harm. The permanent fasting brings her organs to collapse. In August 2016, she was hospitalized in intensive care with kidney failure. “I almost touched the death,” she said during an interview.
“That was very serious. When I recovered from the coma I thought I was going to die. I was feeling awful. At other occasions, when I was brought to the hospital and got IV I was thinking Great! I get also hydrated! Perfect! But this time, I was terrified.”
“I would never thought I’d die of amorexia nervosa,” she said, when she was released from the hospital. “Doctors would tell me ‘you’re dying’ but I wouldn’t believe them.”
Her kidneys collapsed when actually she had started doing better, so she believe. “For two years,I was doing better, I had gained weight, I was eating normal, my health was OK, then my kidneys collapsed because my body was overwhelmed and exhausted from the anorexia. I was feeling tired and I thought it’s because of the summer heat. I was thirsty and I thought probably I have diabetes, I had muscles pain and I thought it’s from the computer. And suddenly I was in the intensive care” she said.
Meanwhile she had lost several jobs at television, her marriage was broken into pieces.
She was occasionally working as a radio producer.
She often and openly talked to the media about her problem and how anorexia got hold of her whole life. “I couldn’t think of my life before anorexia,” she said in one of her many interviews.
She was saying that she had a’ difficult’ childhood “when her parents divorced” when she was at primary school. “I was always in distress whether they loved me. I didn’t want to disappoint my parents. When I was in the hospitals, I liked it, because everyone was paying attention to me, everyone was interested in me” she confessed once.
She spoke many times about her long battle with the disease, her fixation “with her weight” and how it all started.
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Citing her neighbors, media report on Tuesday, that she was quite lonesome lately.
Anorexia nevrosa is more than an eating disorder that can end life-threatening. It is a nightmare that keeps thousands of girls but also boys in its claws.
In an interview last year, she openly spoke about her struggle. “I’m sorry that there are so many girls living with this. I don’t want anyone to come through this, it makes me feel so sorry.”
Nana Karayianni did not make it. The disease was stronger.
PS But I know one girl who made it. There is hope, girls!
UPDATE: autopsy conducted on Wednesday morning could not determine the exact causes of her death. Results of toxicological and histological samples are expected in the next days.
“She was addicted to solarium..” What a bogus statement for such a severe and intricate disorder as anorexia neurosis. A most asinine statement to say the least.
That so-called journalist behind this insensitive post should improve his/her editing skills in the near future. The poor lady is gone. Respect her loss and watch your language hereinafter. End of.