Posted on 03/17/2015 9:13:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The French government is expected to throw its weight behind amendments to a new health bill that would ban the fashion world from hiring underweight models, slapping violators with fines or even prison sentences, the health minister said Monday
The bill, which will be debated in parliament on Tuesday, also proposes banning websites and other forums that are viewed as promoting anorexia and other eating disorders.
“This is an important message to young women, young women who see these models as an æsthetic ideal,” Health Minister Marisol Touraine said, adding that the Socialist government is likely to back the bill.
“It’s important for fashion models to say that they need to eat well and take care of their health.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
I’m glad that France has solved all its other problems!
The need is strong to tell everyone else what they can or can’t do. What about live and let live?
Too much government=insanity.
Discrimination against thin people.
Cue up the Edna Mode quote.
by getting rid of skinny models they are paving the way for ugly models, which then paves the way for sharia compliant hefty bag models....
Slippery Slope Man, Game Over...
One hamburger away from death.
Well they must have solved their Muslim terrorist problem so well that all they have to worry about is skinny models. Life is good in France.
“It’s important for fashion models to say that they need to eat well and take care of their health.”
HA! The modeling companies are there to make money. The advertising companies are there to make money. The models themselves are fed a daily breakfast of cocaine that keeps them going all day, and pay them millions of dollars. Where else can a girl with an IQ of 70 make $10million?
And on more thing... I bet ain’t nary one of them models knows how to make a decent green bean casserole. PFFT!
There is thin, there is skinny, and then there is what ever the hell is wrong with that chick.
In the fashion world, Playboy Centerfold girls are considered "plus size".
When they talk about "skinny models", they are talking about girls like this:
They did specify Super Skinny. Ya know, the kind that make a Kate Moss-type heroin addict seem zaftig by comparison.
Personally, I’d much rather have France set quotas for fat, average and thin people on TV. And for good looking vs. ugly people on TV too. Especially news anchors.
Yikes. How can that possibly be considered beautiful?
I’m sure it wasn’t stupidity, it was psychological.
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