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SHOULD MAGAZINES âBANâ MODELS?
FROM : BBC NEWS, HAVE YOUR SAY, WEDNESDAY 7 0CTOBER 2009
1 From the beginning of 2010 Germany's most-read women's magazine, Brigitte, will use and pay "real women"
2 as models instead of professionals. Do you want to see real women modelling in magazines?
3 The drive against size 0 models has been gathering pace over the last few years but when Canadian designer
4 Mark Fast put size 12-14 models into his show at this yearâs London Fashion Week, two members of his team
5 walked out.
6 There are also calls for magazines to put warning labels on photographs of models that have been digitally
7 enhanced.
8 Are you a model? Does this move to include more real women in magazines concern you? Do size zero models
9 create unrealistic body images? Would you like to know if a photo has been airbrushed?
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