France's National Assembly approved a bill that would make it illegal for anyone - including fashion magazines, couturiers, and advertisers - to incite extreme thinness. The bill will be reviewed by France's other house of parliament, the Senate, in the upcoming weeks. According to CNN ,if Senate passes the bill, it will be the strongest bill affecting the model market because "inciting extreme thinness" is such a broad term. Spain passed a law last year saying a model's BMI could not be lower than 18. France is following in their footsteps to change a market that accepts, and even encourages, anorexia.
Some couture houses aren't happy that the government is trying to regulate what is or isn't considered beautiful.... including protruding hip bones.
Personally, I think France is going in the right direction. But it is going to take a whole lot more than a bill to change the body image here! It seems like almost everyone you see on the streets has twig-like legs and flat stomachs. These parisians subsist on coffee and cigarettes!
I head back to the states in a week... and I can't wait to get away from the mini-meal atmosphere over here and pig out on all the foods that makes America great (or fat...): fudge brownies, queso and hot tortillas, massive Starbucks muffins, and REAL coffee!
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