French lawmakers are weighing a ban on extremely thin models. New legislation debated in Parliament Tuesday would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from models proving that their ...

You can turn your head and ignore it all you want, but there’s no denying that fashion has a dark side. For decades, the industry has consistently faced criticism for promoting an unhealthy self-image ...

The French National Assembly has passed two measures that would outlaw hiring underweight catwalk models and promoting unhealthy behavior to lose weight. Under the measure passed Friday, agencies that ...

France's government is likely to back a bill banning excessively thin fashion models as well as potentially fining the modeling agency or fashion house that hires them and sending the agents to jail, ...

France recently became the fourth nation to ban ultrathin models from its fashion runways. Models exhibiting a body mass index (BMI) of 18 or lower would be prohibited from the industry for which ...

Unrealistic beauty standards and the media that perpetuate them — advertisements, fashion shows, the Internet at large — have come under increased scrutiny in recent years, forcing institutions such ...

"I used to be on a plane all the time," recalled plus-size model Sané Lou. "Now, I've spent the past year on my couch." The return of thinness as the fashion standard has undermined the position of ...