Monday, October 30, 2017

14-year-old model who died from exhaustion was paid $8 a day

1:44 AM    
Official newspaper The Global Times

reported she died of “multiple organ dysfunction syndrome”, citing medical records, but it is understood tests are still being conducted.
Before she went into a coma she had told her mother back home in Russia by phone that she was exhausted.
Vlada is reported to have attended a 13-hour jewelry modelling shoot before collapsing after becoming the latest Russian teenage model to travel to China.
Now her parents “cannot afford” to fly her body home and she is expected to be cremated with her ashes returned to her homeland after a month.
However, Russian diplomats have asked that a cremation is delayed until her mother — Oksana — arrives in China.
On an earlier contract in China, Vlada received just $8.27 a day for her catwalk appearances once her air fares, hotels, food and insurance had been taken from her earnings, reported the Russian media.
The girl was “scared” to seek hospital treatment because she did not have medical insurance on her latest trip to China, say the media citing her mother.
The Chinese modelling agency involved in her latest trip has denied overworking her — but new facts have emerged that raise concern over the working conditions of a girl who was not accompanied by her mother.