Key points of a bill, "Draft law aimed at fighting incitement to extreme thinness or anorexia," passed Tuesday by the French lower house of parliament:
In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve — and could be used to hit fashion industry heavyweights, too.
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PARIS — In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with "thinspiration" and starvation tips.
France - It's the first firm decision to penalize extreme thinness promoted by the fashion industry & Co...
France, the home of high fashion and ultra-thin catwalk models, is to adopt legislation which bans websites that promote eating disorders.
In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders.
The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness. The bill targets pro-anorexia websites and publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
France's lower house of parliament today adopted a groundbreaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone to publicly incite extreme thinness.
Her frame was so skeletal that doctors warned Hayley Wilde she was just over a week away from death. But three years on, after an eight-year battle against anorexia, she has bounced back in the most emphatic fashion by giving birth to a boy.
An anorexic has given birth after doctors told her she was so ill that she only had 10 days left to live. Hayley Wilde, 20, looks a perfect picture of motherhood - but it is a world away from the skeletal image taken three years ago.
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