French MPs have adopted
a bill aimed at banning the use of fashion models deemed to be
"excessively thin".
Models will need a
doctor's certificate that their health is "compatible with the practise of
the profession".
Employers who break the
law could face up to six months in jail and a €75,000 fine (£54,000, $81,000).
A previous version of
the bill had suggested a minimum Body Mass Index (BMI) for models, prompting
protests from modelling agencies in France.
But the final draft
approved on Thursday allows doctors to decide whether a model is too thin by
taking into account their weight, age, and body shape.
It also says that
digitally altered images making a model's silhouette "narrower or
wider" should be labelled "touched up".
France is not the first
country to legislate on underweight models - Italy, Spain and Israel have all
done so.
Anorexia affects
between 30,000 to 40,000 people in France, 90% of whom are women.
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