Skinny Models

Daniel's model also explains why she quit the biz after getting axed from the show. Size really does matter.

The CFDA will set up booths at the tents to provide Fashion Week goers with info on eating disorders.

'America's Next Top Model' casting directors and agents from top agencies told Tatiana Stewart to drop at least ten pounds.

Today it will announce that it will no longer push to require health certificates for models.

A 16-year-old finalist of the fourth season lost four inches from her hips after judges called her "bottom-heavy."

Diane Von Furstenberg, Michael Kors, and Coco Rocha joined forces last night to talk candidly about eating disorders. And strangely, the fashion world paid attention.

The fashion industry isn't going to change its size 00 model aesthetics, but it wants you to know its health concerns are genuine.

In the June/July issue of 'Teen Vogue,' Ali Michael shares her story of weight struggles as an up-and-coming model.

Model Ali Michael spoke out on the 'Today' show last week about how unhealthy she became to lose weight for her modeling career. More models are now speaking out on the Internet.

Model Ali Michael was on the 'Today' show this morning, talking about her experience at the Paris shows this past February, where she was told that her legs were too fat for the runways.

If Carolina Herrera sees a model who doesn't look healthy, she not only doesn't cast her — she'll pull the mannequin aside and give her a talking-to.

Sarah Doukas founded Storm modeling agency and discovered Kate Moss. She explains what it takes to make it as a model and why the runways are so full of white ones.

On Tuesday in Paris, a French bill that would imprison for up to three years and fine for up to $70,000 anyone who "incited excessive thinness" was passed by the National Assembly; the bill now just needs approval from the French senate to become law.

A bill in France that would make it illegal for anyone to publicly incite extreme thinness has passed the lower house and is moving on to the Senate.

France is not ignoring the skinny model problem, pas de tout. But they expect the titans of industry to change the status quo on voluntary basis.

Judging from the clavicle action on the runways this past Fashion Week, the British Fashion Council's Model Health Inquiry hasn't had a major effect on catwalks, but the council is pushing for change in editorial departments.

Is the age of the pale, nondescript waif model almost over? According to Anna Wintour's letter in the April "shape" issue of Vogue, it ought to be.

The skinny-model debate persists today thanks to designer Bradley Bayou. He stopped using size-0 and size-2 models after his daughter battled anorexia. She collapsed from the disease after years of struggling to fit into his sample sizes.