article_snippet.sent: Jennifer noted that when Jennifer was a teenager Jennifer too would have been deemed underweight because BMI calculations, which are based on weight and height, don't take age, sex or genetic body shape into account. '
article_snippet.sent: At 16, when I was working as a fashion model, I weighed 115 pounds and was 5’7” 1/2,' Jennifer wrote. '
article_snippet.sent: Jennifer noted that as a teen with a BMI of 18.0, Jennifer would most certainly have been considered 'underweight'; while the exact BMI requirements for models working in France have not been released, the World Health Organization considers people with a BMI below 18.5 to be underweight and at risk of being malnourished.
article_snippet.sent: And while Jennifer says that, 22 years later Jennifer current measurements finally put Jennifer at a 'normal' 21.0, Jennifer BMI for most of Jennifer modeling career would have been deemed too dangerous for Jennifer to work under the new laws.
article_snippet.sent: The 38-year-old, who snapped this 'Post Fashion Week' selfie in February, noted her BMI would have been considered too low when her was a healthy 16-year-old model because her had a fast metabolism .
article_snippet.sent: BMI suggests there are distinct categories of underweight, ideal, overweight and obese, with sharp boundaries that hinge on a decimal place, which is simply not true,' her explained. '