VEGAN INFLUENCER ZHANNA D’ART DIES DUE TO NIGHTMARE DIET

Zhanna Samsonova known as Zhanna D’art on social media has died due to what her mother described as nightmare diet. She died of starvation and exhaustion after living on ‘extreme diet of raw fruits and vegetables. Her mother Vera Samsonova 63 said she knew she was dying and urged her to come to their native Moscow to receive medical treatment.

Zhanna had been on raw plant based diet for 10 years. Her diet consisted of raw plants, fruits, smoothies and juices. She had been suffering from Anorexia and became so weak in her final weeks of her life due to the extreme diet. It was making her bed-bound and taking her several minutes to walk up one-step on a staircase. She had not drunk water for over 6 years and only took fruits and vegetable juices. She appeared increasingly emancipated but claimed to be in perfect health.

Her mother fought for years encouraging her daughter to seek medical help and eat a more healthy diet and Zhanna who had over 10 thousand followers on Instagram refused but was traveling across Asia promoting her health lifestyle. Her friends in her final moments of her life desperately urged her to get help and eat more substantive food as she was practically only bones, looking exhausted, emancipated. One of her friends Olga Chernyaeva said she watched the influencer’s journey to death for seven years, when she met her in Sri Lankan she had a haggard look. She said she tried to convince her to seek help from the doctor by comparing her body in the mirror and the photos of past years that it was impossible to convince her. Ms. Chernyaeva said she brought her fruits every morning for it was impossible to get her to eat something else. Zhanna did not believe that death exists. She refused to listen to warnings and it proved fatal.

The official cause was not determined as her mother Vera is fighting to get her body back to Russia amid bureaucratic delays. However, it is revealed that she died of a cholera-like infection that was exacerbated by extreme diet. She died on July 21 at the age of 39.