article_snippet: Paris (CNN)French lawmakers are weighing a ban on extremely thin models.
article_snippet: Dr. Olivier Veran, a doctor and French lawmaker who's proposing the measures, said it's time to put a stop to the practice of pressuring models to be so thin that it's dangerous for their health.
article_snippet: We want to combat the idea that an agency could urge a model to stop eating; for example eating cotton balls to lose their appetite, to always lose more weight," French lawmaker said.
article_snippet: Extreme cases such as that of French model
article_snippet: Similar concerns in Spain, Italy and Israel prompted Spain, Italy and Israel to adopt laws against the use of ultra-thin models on catwalks and in advertising campaigns.
article_snippet: And the French Parliament wants to outlaw what the French Parliament calls starving models by the end of the year.
article_snippet: I think that by the end of 2015," the French Parliament said, "we will no longer have anorexic models on the catwalk.
highlights_snippet: French lawmakers are considering measures setting limits for how thin models can be .
  
highlights_snippet: "We want to combat the idea that an agency could urge a model to stop eating," lawmaker says .
  