Zhanna Samsonova, aged 39, attempted to live on a diet of just fruit but, even earlier this year, friends said she “looked exhausted” and became concerned for her health
A vegan influencer who attempted to live on a diet of just raw fruit shared a haunting final social media post before she “died of starvation”.
Zhanna Samsonova, 39, said “life is meaningless” days before she died on July 21. Her last Instagram note included a selfie with her mouth open and the words: “Life is meaningless but worth living provided you recognise it’s meaningless.” Friends said Zhanna, a Russian national who toured the world to give dietary advice, “died of starvation” but the official cause of death has not yet been released.
The influencer, known as Zhanna D’Art, previously explained how she had only been eating and drinking just fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, smoothies, and juices for four years.
But one pal recently said: “A few months ago, in Sri Lanka, she already looked exhausted. I lived one floor above her and every day I feared finding her lifeless body in the morning. I convinced her to seek treatment, but she didn’t make it.” Her mother Vera Samsonova said she had caught a “cholera-like infection” just hours before she was due to fly home.