{"id":10268,"date":"2011-05-14T00:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/05\/14\/mysterious-death-of-plus-sized-model-mia-amber-davis\/"},"modified":"2011-05-14T00:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T00:41:44","slug":"mysterious-death-of-plus-sized-model-mia-amber-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/05\/14\/mysterious-death-of-plus-sized-model-mia-amber-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious death of plus-sized model Mia Amber Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Facebook Tweet Mia Amber Davis went to a Los Angeles clinic this week for surgery on her knee to ease pain from an old basketball injury exacerbated by wearing high heels and playing tennis.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>But after what was supposed to be a routine procedure on Monday, she complained of dizziness and had to be transported to Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center. At about 9 a.m. on Tuesday she was pronounced dead.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cShe seemed fine leading up to the procedure,\u201d says Craig Harvey, chief investigator for the L.A. County Coroner. \u201cShe had no prior complaints and no significant prior medical history.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Davis\u2019s sudden and mysterious death at age 36 stunned her family, including husband Michael Yard, and rocked the fashion industry, where Davis was a highly respected and influential plus-sized model based in New York. She also worked as an actress, appearing in Road Trip.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe\u2019re really heartbroken,\u201d says Madeline Jones, editor of PLUS Model Magazine. \u201cWe feel like our whole world collapsed. And the plus-sized industry is never going to be the same. She was such an advocate for plus-sized women. Wherever she went she was made up from head to toe, not a hair out of place. She loved herself. She looked good and felt good.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The cause of death remains unknown. Results of an autopsy are pending, and reports that a blot clot was to blame are \u201csimply speculation,\u201d says Davis\u2019s cousin, Mignon Moore, a UCLA sociology professor.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe are absolutely heartbroken and devastated by the abruptness and tragic loss of Mia Amber,\u201d her family says in a statement released by Moore. \u201cShe was a role model for people of all colors, shapes and sizes. She was a shining star and always encouraged others to live out their dreams.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In Road Trip in 2000, a 300-pound Davis appeared in what was played as a comedic love scene with super skinny D.J. Qualls.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Tweet Mia Amber Davis went to a Los Angeles clinic this week for surgery on her knee to ease pain from an old basketball injury exacerbated by wearing high heels and playing tennis.&nbsp; But after what was supposed to be a routine procedure on Monday, she complained of dizziness and had to be transported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}