![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/vegan-influencer-zhanna-samsonova-could-barely-walk-and-hadnt-had-water-for-six-years-before-dying-of-starvation/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23295482-1690965432265.jpg&description=VEGAN influencer Zhanna Samsonova found walking "very difficult" and hadn't drunk water in six years before she died. The 39-year-old is feared to have starved to death after attempting to live on an extreme fruit-only diet. 4 Zhanna Samsonova - who died July 21 - could barely walk in her final months, friends reveal Credit: INSTAGRAM/ZHANNA D'ART 4 She openly told her followers that she had not drunk water in six years, saying her body didn't 'require' it Credit: instagram/@rawveganfoodchef The Russian national - known as Zhanna D'Art to her social media followers - died on July 21 in Malaysia while on a tour of Southeast Asia. She previously told her followers that she spent the last four years of her life eating and drinking "only fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies and juices." Her mother Vera Samsonova said she had caught a "cholera-like infection" - exacerbated by her diet - just hours before she was due to fly home from her travels. Her friends, who said she suffered from anorexia, had feared that her diet was becoming increasingly restrictive in recent months. One friend, Olga Chernyaeva, told Russian newspaper Novye Izvestia how Samsonova could barely walk. "I watched her journey to death for seven years. About five months ago, I met Zhanna in Sri Lanka and she had a haggard look. 'Her legs were swollen... It was amazing that she was still moving - I think she did it through pain." Chernyaeva added that Samsonova refused to get treatment and she was forced to helplessly watch as she turned to "only bones" and was left bed-bound. "She was in bed for almost a month. If she got up, it was very difficult for her to walk - it took several minutes to overcome one step of the stairs." The raw food influencer also had touted online that her body does not "require" water. "I have not drunk water for the last 6 years. "This is a common occurrence in those who are on a fruit diet," she wrote on Instagram post from last year. "This is not something that I l){kind=link}
VEGAN influencer Zhanna Samsonova found walking “very difficult” and hadn’t drunk water in six years before she died.
The 39-year-old is feared to have starved to death after attempting to live on an extreme fruit-only diet.
The Russian national – known as Zhanna D’Art to her social media followers – died on July 21 in Malaysia while on a tour of Southeast Asia.
She previously told her followers that she spent the last four years of her life eating and drinking “only fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies and juices.”
Her mother Vera Samsonova said she had caught a “cholera-like infection” – exacerbated by her diet – just hours before she was due to fly home from her travels.