Fashion Model Commits Suicide...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Ruslana Korshunova, the 20-year-old supermodel whose face graced the cover of Vogue, committed suicide on Saturday when she fell from her ninth floor apartment in New York's financial district, according to the medical examiner's office.

Fashion model Ruslana Korshunova died Saturday in a fall from her apartment building in New York.

The cause of death was blunt impact injuries, the office said.

British Vogue had hailed the Kazakhstan native as "a face to be excited about" in 2005, according to The Associated Press.

Korshunova appeared in advertisements and on runways for such designers as Marc Jacobs, Nina Ricci and DKNY, AP reported.

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