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CBC Canada has a report on a law under consideration in France's lower house that would require models to meet a minimum body mass index standard.
The link between high fashion, body image and eating disorders on French catwalks may lead to a ban on super-skinny models.
Style-conscious France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of dollars, would join Italy, Spain and Israel, which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in advertising campaigns in early 2013.
Under the proposed legislation, any model who wants to work has to have a body mass index (a type of height to weight ratio) of at least 18 and would be subject to regular weight checks.
The law would enforce fines of up to $79,000 [US] for any breaches, with up to six months in jail for any staff involved, French Socialist Party legislator Olivier Veran, who wrote the amendments, told newspaper Le Parisien.
The bill's amendments also propose penalties for anything made public that could be seen as encouraging extreme thinness, notably pro-anorexia websites that glorify unhealthy lifestyles and forums that encourage eating disorders.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is is a measure of relative size based on the mass and height of an individual.
c0lo's random thoughts:
- On one side: governments regulating the BMI... (large soda ban)... hmm?
- On the other side: how is this different from laws against public indecency, laws which are well-knitted into the fabric of westernized societies?
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Thursday April 09 2015, @01:11PM
I have a friend who is like that. She can eat as much food as I can (someone who is into power lifting) yet doesn't gain any weight. I'm 5'9" and 260 lbs and for a workout (3 sets of 10 reps) bench 455lbs, squat 685, clean and jerk 365, and curl 185, etc., on the other hand she is 5'6" and about 105 lbs and can't gain any weight. She has been doing the beer and ice cream thing as well and it does help to keep her weight up. Her and her husband have had a hard time conceiving a child because of the problems with her thinness. That said there are very few people who have this problem but there are a lot of people who starve themselves to look like a sack of antlers.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 1) by cwadge on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:08PM