15 hottest models who live with chronic diseases and disabilities (With Pictures)

6. Crystal Renn

Modeling since the age of 14, Crystal Renn has overcome some amazingly difficult struggles. When she first started out, she was told that she needed to lose an exorbitant amount of weight in order to become successful in modelling. She developed Anorexia, an eating disorder and mental illness in which she engaged in highly restrictive eating and over-exercise. After starving herself for years, she began to turn things around. She gained the weight back and began to portray a positive body image for not only regular women, but for other models, too. Eating disorders never fully go away; it takes therapy, a solid support system, and round-the-clock effort to keep the urges and cognitive distortions at bay. But Renn is going strong.