JERUSALEM (AP) – Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalized twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of ...

Victoria Beckham has previously faced criticism for her super-skinny frame, but this time, it's not her figure that is coming under fire. The singer-turned-fashion designer made headlines after her ...

(CNN) – Super-thin models in France must provide a doctor’s certificate confirming they’re of a healthy weight, according to a new law. Employers of models breaking the law could face six months in ...

Sept. 15, 2006— -- Some of the world's top models may be about to be kicked off the catwalk after a recent ban on super-thin models from runways in Spain. The ban on "skinny" models performing in ...

As the Duchess of Windsor famously remarked, “You can never be too rich or too thin.” Her skeletal frame certainly attested to the statement. Fortunately for those whose obsession with thinness may ...

One year after the storm over skinny models, we ask: "Has anything changed?" LONDON, Feb. 15, 2008 — -- As London Fashion Week draws to a close, it's worthwhile to reflect on how much, if ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modelling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday.

Super-thin models and secretly airbrushed photoshoots will soon be a thing of the past in fashion hub France, as authorities passed measures to protect young people from the dangers of anorexia. Under ...