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French MPs have adopted a new bill which hopes to ban the use of fashion models deemed to be excessively thin.

Models will soon require a doctor’s certificate stating that their health is ‘compatible with the practise of the profession’ and employers who break the new law could face up to six months in jail and a €75,000 (£54,000) fine.

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An earlier draft of the bill suggested that a minimum Body Mass Index (BMI) for models should be put in place – however the proposal prompted protests from modelling agencies across France. However, the final draft – approved yesterday – allows doctors to decide whether a model is too thin by taking into account their weight, age, and body shape.

In an interesting addition, the finalised bill also says that digitally altered images making a model’s silhouette ‘narrower or wider’ should be clearly labelled as having been ‘touched up’.

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