France is highly concerned about folks who don’t eat enough. In fact, part of France’s parliament recently passed a bill that would make it illegal to advocate extreme skinniness.
A thin excuse for a law, you might say, but lawmakers say fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites are a threat to public health, pushing people into anorexia and bulimia. The bill drew special attention to Web sites that tell readers how to live on, say, an apple a day, and nothing else.
Others, however, say the proposed law (it still has to be approved by France’s senate) goes too far.
“We never will accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny,” said Didier Grumbach, president of the French Federation of Couture. “That doesn’t exist in the world, and it certainly will not exist in France.” (Associated Press)