This is Isabelle Caro. She was a model. How old is she in that picture?
This picture was taken in France when she was 28 years old. It was the year she died.
This is the reality of Anorexia Nervosa. When does it become unacceptable for models to be this ill because they are convinced they need to work in the industry.
The technical word for her body is emaciated. She isn't starving, she is suffering from a mental health problem. This is where the mind losses control of it's body's well being. Now, isn't that a mental health problem?
When a woman becomes unable to discern their own body image, that is definitely a mental health problem. She needs treatment and if she had to put on weight in order to work, she may have done exactly that. At the very least those in the industry would be obligated to set her straight and help her realize she was far to thin to walk down an aisle with high fashion exampled to other women.
I applaud France. I hope it works.
April 3, 2015
(Reuters) - France (click here) will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday.
The move by France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of euros, comes after a similar ban by Israel in 2013, while other countries, like Italy and Spain, rely on voluntary codes of conduct to protect models.
The measure is part of a campaign against anorexia by President Francois Hollande's government. Lawmakers also made it illegal to condone anorexia and said any re-touched photo that alters the bodily appearance of a model for commercial purposes must carry a message stating it had been manipulated.
"The activity of model is banned for any person whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is lower than levels proposed by health authorities and decreed by the ministers of health and labor," the legislation says....
This picture was taken in France when she was 28 years old. It was the year she died.
This is the reality of Anorexia Nervosa. When does it become unacceptable for models to be this ill because they are convinced they need to work in the industry. The technical word for her body is emaciated. She isn't starving, she is suffering from a mental health problem. This is where the mind losses control of it's body's well being. Now, isn't that a mental health problem?
When a woman becomes unable to discern their own body image, that is definitely a mental health problem. She needs treatment and if she had to put on weight in order to work, she may have done exactly that. At the very least those in the industry would be obligated to set her straight and help her realize she was far to thin to walk down an aisle with high fashion exampled to other women.
I applaud France. I hope it works.
April 3, 2015
(Reuters) - France (click here) will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday.
The move by France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of euros, comes after a similar ban by Israel in 2013, while other countries, like Italy and Spain, rely on voluntary codes of conduct to protect models.
The measure is part of a campaign against anorexia by President Francois Hollande's government. Lawmakers also made it illegal to condone anorexia and said any re-touched photo that alters the bodily appearance of a model for commercial purposes must carry a message stating it had been manipulated.
"The activity of model is banned for any person whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is lower than levels proposed by health authorities and decreed by the ministers of health and labor," the legislation says....
