Viveka followed contemporaries Nafisa, Kuljeet

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Viveka followed contemporaries Nafisa, Kuljeet(BCCL)
Well-known faces of the fashion industry, Nafisa Joseph, Kuljeet Randhawa and now Viveka Babajee, have ended their lives in a similar fashion...

Viveka Babajee, 32, a beautiful supermodel, was found dead under mysterious circumstances. She is the third Indian model who has settled the score with life in this manner. Here are some more names who have had a similar tragic end...

Nafisa Joseph
A good-looking model, bubbly VJ, glamorous former Miss India and Miss Universe finalist, Nafisa left one and all stunned when she hung herself in her Mumbai flat on 29 July 2004. Lies and deception in her love life forced the 25 year-old young to take the grave step. Just a few weeks before she was supposed to tie the knot with long-term boyfriend Gautam Khanduja, she discovered that the man was still married. Naturally, the marriage was called off and out of sheer agony, Joseph took the drastic step.

Kuljeet Randhawa
It seemed she had her fate connected to Nafisa Joseph. The two girls shared screen space in television series C.A.T.S, and were great friends as well. Within six months of Joseph's demise, Randhawa was found hanging in her Juhu apartment. According to her suicide note, it was her failure to cope-up with the pressures of life that made her choose death. Kuljeet was seen on TV in serials including Hip Hip Hurray, Kohinoor series and Special Squad. She, too, was barely 30.

Marilyn Monroe
The eternal beauty, who has many a talents to her name including modeling, acting and singing, Marilyn ended her life at the age of 36 years. When her popularity was soaring high and adulations and accolades, she was busy enjoying, there was one part of her existence that was suffering. Illness, personal problems and a tag of being unreliable and tough to work with forced her towards her doom. It was an overdose of barbiturates that took her life. Now, whether it was intentional or accidental is still being debated upon.

Apart from these names, there have been many models, who chose death when life left them with no option. For some it was a failed love, while for others the mad race to survive in the glam world became the catalyst taking them to doom. Some of the names we would like to mention include Lucy Gordon, Lois Hamilton, Margaux Hemingway, Daul Kim, Ruslana Korshunova and Lina Marulanda.

While they have found their answers to life’s woes by embracing death, the world has moved on. But a question lingers on...why? Why do so many models face a dark end? Is it the lack of will power that fails to fight back a gloomy love life? Or is it the never ending demands of their profession that brings such an end? Or something else we are yet to explore....