Are Models Too Slim?

Vocabulary

• skinny 极瘦的
• adopt 采取，采用
• weight 体重
• pioneer 先锋，先驱
• crime 罪行

Script

When they talk about fashion in Paris, the world listens. Let's see if that remains the case when the conversation is about skinny models. 

France has unexpectedly adopted a law making it a crime to employ very thin women on the catwalk. 

The law requires models to show they have a Body Mass Index (BMI) above a particular level. 

The World Health Organization says people whose BMI is below 18.5 are underweight and at risk of poor health. 

Modelling agents face fines and six months in jail if they break the rules. 

The law is believed to help protect teenagers and young women, because they are under social pressure from the image of these models to be thinner and thinner. 

Thus they may copy the looks and shape of size-zero models and put their health at risk. 

The new law may make people stop and think about the unhealthy side of the fashion industry, but the country is not a pioneer when it comes to putting limits on models' weight. 

Israel adopted a similar ban in 2013 and Spain and Italy have set some standards on the issue.