Sizes Of Models

EDM number 1240 in 2008-09, proposed by Richard Younger-Ross on 31/03/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Health education and preventive medicine and Media.

That this House notes that approximately 24,000 16 to 18 year old women and men suffer from anorexia; further notes that for many the desire to be thin is driven by societal pressures that determine thin as beautiful; further notes that such pressures are fuelled by the media and fashion magazines, and therefore welcomes those positive images for average-sized and larger women such as the selection of Crystal Renn, a size 16, as the face and body of Evans and the promotion of this in the April edition of Cosmopolitan magazine; and therefore calls on all in the fashion industry to select models who are of larger sizes for inclusion in magazines.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.