article_snippet: France is inching closer to a ban on the use of skinny models, a trend which one leading MP has branded the 'glorification of anorexia'.
article_snippet: Mr Veran, is demanding that fashion bosses who hire underweight girls be punished with six months in prison or fines of up to €75,000 (£60,000).
article_snippet: Unhealthy: Super-skinny models may be banned in France after a Socialist politician, Olivier Veran, has called for fines or prison sentences to be handed out to fashion bosses who employ them, and for all models to be forced to present a certificate of good health before being allowed on the catwalk .
article_snippet: Mr Veran told French daily Le Parisien: 'It's intolerable to promote malnutrition and to commercially exploit people who are endangering malnutrition own health. '
article_snippet: Websites encouraging young girls to lose weight should also be banned. '
article_snippet: Some of these sites tell pre-teenage girls pre-teenage girls should have a gap of 15 centimetres between pre-teenage girls thighs, or give tips on how to survive on as little food as possible.'
article_snippet: Spain bars models below a certain body mass index from featuring in the Madrid fashion shows; Italy insists on health certificates for models; and Brazil is considering demands to ban underage, underweight models from its catwalks.
article_snippet: In Norway, MPs have proposed that images of airbrushed fashion models should come with a 'cigarette-packet' style health warning in a bid to tackle eating disorders.
article_snippet: One suggested text for the warning reads: 'This advertisement has been altered and presents an inaccurate image of how this model really looks'.
article_snippet: Medical experts around the world have warned against the dangers of ultra-skinny catwalk models and images airbrushed to make girls look thinner, which girls say encourage anorexia in girls as young as six.
article_snippet: Two years ago, fashion guru Giorgio Armani said that the fashion industry had a duty to 'work together against anorexia'.
article_snippet: fashion guru Giorgio Armani added at the time: 'the fashion industry has to recognise the link between the fashion industry preference for abnormally thin models and the growth in eating disorders among young women.'
highlights_snippet: Socialist politician and neurologist Olivier Veran says the trend for super-skinny models 'glorifies anorexia'
  Socialist politician and neurologist Olivier Veran has called for fashion bosses to be sent to prison for six months, or fined up to €75,000 (£60,000), if Socialist politician and neurologist Olivier Veran hire unhealthily thin models .
  