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Code of conduct introduced over use of skinny models Code of conduct introduced over use of skinny models
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:11a.m.

Australia is to introduce a new "code of conduct introduced over use of skinny models.

Models will have to be a mixture of shapes and sizes and the industry will have to reveal which photographs have been air-brushed.

Magazines will be encouraged to use more models with healthy looking bodies.

Australian authorities are concerned that the use of skinny women is leading young girls to believe that being stick thin is normal.


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Rachel
06 Oct 2008 3:56p.m.

In australia it's absolutely ridiculous the type of girls that get accepted for modelling academy's either their parents are rich or they starve themselves to get so thin. it's almost as though the perfect size is 8 or under, but honestly i'd prefer to wear clothes modelled by a girl realistic looking that scrawny and sickly looking. Is this really what the industry is trying to convince us? that looking fake and plastic is "hot" "sexy" and "cool"? i have a 9 year old foster sister who barely eats because her friends call her fat, she's not obese or anything but it goes to show the impact that the "skinny" norm is having on our future.

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