BBC news reports that organisers of the Madrid fashion week are planning a ban of underweight models from their 2006 event.
A healthy BMI is between 18.5 and 25, and models falling below 18 are being banned, to give a better example for young women of healthy women's bodies.
Wow, that's a bit radical. Banning anyone based on their health seems to me to be a bad idea.
But it is to be commended - at least they're trying to do something to promte positive healthy body image.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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It's about time! They've paraded walking skeletons with fake tits around too long. Hopefully, New York, Paris and Milan follow Madrid's lead.
It is about time. These walking insect-thin clothes horses need help, not to be cheered, leered over and commended for achieving such physical rib-exposing levels.
I hadn't thought of the health angle...
But I do think that this is on balance a good thing. This aspiration of being skinny and plastic is dangerous really.
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