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Fashion Models Are Thin Because This is What They Do. But Does it Have To Be That Way?

Skinny Model Backstage | Source: Kenneth Lyngaas, Campaign Against Eating Disorders
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  • Emma Clark

"Last month the ex-editor of Australian Vogue, Kirstie Clements, published a memoir of her time at the helm of the magazine. The book included the controversial information that fashion models ate tissues to fill themselves up."

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