Today’s Record-Breaking Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In the nineties, porn stars dropped by the dozens from AIDS, a fact made public when Brooke Ashley tested HIV-positive after breaking the anal intercourse record, with fifty men. More safeguards have been established since. However, murder, suicide, and overdose permeate the doings of artists occupied expressing their talent in this medium. Trinity Loren (thirty-three) and Linda Wong (thirty-six) died from overdoses, as did J.D. Ram (twenty-six) and Jill Munro (twenty-five) on heroin, soon after appearing in Consenting Adults. Lolo Ferrari, billed as “the woman with the largest breasts in the world,” at seventy-one inches via silicone, broke a Guinness World Record for another obsession, undergoing twenty-two breast-enhancement procedures. It was believed her death, at thirty-eight in 2000, was from a rupture though according to her husband, Lolo picked out a white coffin and laid out a pink dress for her wake three days before she died of an overdose. When it was discovered that a nonlethal dose of medication was in Lola’s bloodstream, her husband said she instead died in her sleep, suffocating on her breasts. Lolo had planned an operation to reduce her stupendous size to an expression more manageable, such that suspicions of foul play surround her death.
Lolo and her Assets
Culled from: Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
Morbid Art Du Jour!
Claude Monet’s painting of his wife Camille on her deathbed:
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment. To such an extend indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.” – Claude Monet