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I've just looked at this article and the comments - apparently there has been more than one model dropping dead and still people can't seem to see the difference between naturally slim and healthy and this totally unnatural obsession with striving to be nothing more than skin on a stick.

Particularly telling is the interview with Paige Adams-Geller

Paige Adams-Geller, a former model..............

"There is barely a celebrity who doesn’t buy into what the fashion world dictates. And they will do anything to become thin.
"I kept wondering why I would see an actress one week and she would look normal, and the next she would look gaunt, and I found out it is all down to crystal meth [which suppresses the appetite] the latest must-have accessory here in LA." She also told me the name of the ‘celebrity stylist’ who is now suddenly so in demand, simply because she also acts as the stars’ drug dealer.
When I asked Paige whether in fact what everyone is telling me is true, that all the models are just naturally skinny, she gave a wry laugh.
"When I became a model at the age of 15 I was slim, I had won Miss California, for goodness’ sake, but the moment I signed with an agent I was told to lose the weight.
"There is no way that a girl over seven and a half stone will get cast on the catwalk. I used to eat one rice cake a day to stay that way. And this meant I never menstruated."
She told me she could guarantee that very few of the girls on the catwalk in London this week will have regular periods, which means they are storing up problems, such as osteoporosis, for later in life.
"I have seen first hand how these girls are treated," she said.
"I would turn up on a shoot and be offered a line of coke; I have even been on shoots where there have been syringes of heroin laid out ready for the models. I always said, no thanks, I prefer to starve myself."

It reminded me of the horror stories my old Geography teacher used to tell of little girls in Japan with tightly bound feet so that they could not grow, as large feet on a woman were regarded as ugly. She brought a pair of tiny silk slippers to show us and they looked like baby shoes but they had belonged to an adult woman. She explained that this was why Japanese women in those days could not walk properly and took tiny shuffling steps because their feet were deformed.