Violators of the new law will face up to six months in prison and a fine of over $80,000. That is, if the French authorities can even enforce it. Late last Thursday, the French government passed a new ...

Do you think it makes sense? It is now illegal for fashion models to be unhealthily thin in France. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Last week, France’s National Assembly passed a law that requires models ...

Proposed legislation would criminalize the use of underweight models and ban online sites that glorify anorexia and other eating disorders. France is considering banning the use of anorexic models in ...

Models will have to provide employers with a doctor’s certificate confirming that “the state of health of the model, assessed with regard to her body mass index (BMI), is compatible with the exercise ...