RIP Model Ruslana Korshunova

[MissAnia]

I just cannot believe this .... Poor girl... I am so sad... R.I.P.

[KI_egoiste]

Rest in peace beauty...

[mrs-elle]

It's just so unbelievable, I just don't understand why she comitted suicide..
Maybe she was a very close person and never talked about her problems, if so, she should have talked to her friends about it, or maybe going to a shrink. I think this was not happened then.
Why suicide
She was such a pretty girl. And looked so happy.

[dollrock]

It even was in my local paper yesterday. So, so sad. She was younger than me. I remember her best from the Nina ad. She looked like she had just tumbled out of a fairytale. Wherever she is, I hope she's happy and at peace.

[Sweet rus]

oh my god
it's too painful

[Sloan]

My thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family. Such a tragic loss.

[*Bianca*]

Really great post, Starry Night.

[Starry_Night]

thanks, Bianca

[Mea Culpa]

Originally Posted by L0VE

Does anyone know if this was her myspace?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=36091248

That quote is so sad. It sounds like it was over her relationship (s).


That looks like her with her ex above

That quote is from a System of a Down song called "Chop Suey"

[MissAnia]

I agree they have no respect, I am so mad about such people.

However, it's good that there still exist people like you all who can pay tribute to our lovely Ruslana

[nastassia]

Just unbelievable, and so sad...

[MissAnia]

[by patrick shaw, edited by me]

[Starry_Night]

^that's beautiful

[babyjane]

I saw one picture of her a few months ago and was immediately a fan. I don't usually pay much attention to models but she stood out she was so beautiful with that long hair, she looked like something out of a fairytale. I am shocked and saddened by her death. R.I.P. Sleeping Beauty

[*Bianca*]

I'm not sure when we should stop posting articles and such, but here is a new one about her family

Family, Friends still in disbelief as model's mother arrives in city

BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA AND CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Monday, June 30th 2008, 12:34 PM

Korshunova seen here in happier times with her brother, Ruslan.

The mother of the supermodel Ruslana Korshunova completed a 6,400 mile pilgrimage of pain today when she arrived in New York to claim the body of her beloved daughter - and bring her home to Kazakhstan for burial.

Valentina Kutenkova flew in from Almaty and was headed to the Medical Examiner's office to formally identify the green-eyed beauty who stunned her family - and the fashion world - on Saturday by leaping to her death from her luxury Manhattan apartment.

"She has to see her baby," said model's ex-boyfriend, Artem Perchenok, 24, of Queens, before he left to meet Kutenkova at the airport.

Korshunova's brother, Ruslan, said he was heartbroken and not conviced that his sister's death was a suicide, as the Medical Examiner ruled.

"She was a positive person," Ruslan, 26, in a telephone interview from the family home in Almaty, Kazakhstan. "She was not capable of such things."

Her brother recalled how his sister, who was discovered when she was just 15 and left Almaty shortly after that, was "thrilled she was home" when she visited in April.

"She had not forgotten her homeland," he said. "She missed it. She wasn't here very often."

A cousin, Nastya Chkopoya, 19, told The Daily News, "Everyone knows she was a good person. It's not suicide. Of course, she will be buried in her homeleand."

Although born in Kazakhstan, Korshunova was known in the modeling business as the "Russian Rapunzel" because of her flowing chestnut hair.

Just 20, she had already conquered catwalks around the world, graced the covers to top fashion magazines, and had been featured in ads for DKNY, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang and other leading designers.

Korshunova, who lived downtown on Water St., had just started dating 32-year-old Mark Kaminsky of Staten Island, and a friend said, "She was thrilled."

But in the months before, Korshunova went through a dark period and wrote in her online journal that she felt "lost" in America.

"Will I ever find myself?" she wrote in March on her page on a Russian social networking site.
Not yet old enough to legally buy a drink, Korshunova felt she was over the hill in a business that's always looking for a brand new face, her ex said.

"She was upset that she was getting older," Perchenok said. "Who isn't? But especially in this industry."

Perchenok said Korshunova had always been a very emotional person and they remained close even after the broke up last fall. They hung out at his parents' house in Queens the day before she died.

Perchenok said that if he had known about her dark online postings, he would have "sat her down for a talk." He said he would have not left her alone in her apartment.

"I would have been, like, 'What are you talking about? This isn't you,'" he said. "She just needed a hug."

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