It's about time!

[WillieW]

http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=68966486797480

German magazine swaps thin models for real women
52 minutes ago

(AP:BERLIN) Germany's highest-circulation women's magazine says it will stop working with professional models next year in favor of women whose bodies better resemble those of its readers.

Andreas Lebert, editor-in-chief for Brigitte magazine, said future photo spreads will feature a mix of prominent and unknown women who "have an identity" instead of those with "protruding bones."

The move is the latest restriction on ultra-thin models, including a 2007 Spanish law banning the extremely thin from catwalks.

Brigitte has suffered a steady drop in readers over the past 20 years but with more than 719,000 copies sold per issue it remains Germany's most-read women's magazine.

[Oregone]

1. I used to read that magazine in my HS German class!

Actually, I was just looking at the naked ladies

[Overseas]

2. I cut back on fashion mags as they used more 17-20 yr old models.

Never mind how skinny those models were, although it is sometimes painful to look at, what bugged me more was the use of teenagers in adult fashion magazines. The models seemed to get younger and younger. It became really tiring to see so many anaemic-looking waifs in overly "artsy" photo spreads.

Bazaar, for one, seemed to be trying to market itself to some of us older women with articles about fashion "at any age" regular features, but then they continued to run those high-teen pretentiously obscure fashion spreads with 17-20 year olds that undercut that marketing.

It would be refreshing to see fewer under-weight models in our magazines and on our catwalks. There's a lot of distance between size zero and size six. Size six is still aspirational for most of us.

And models in their 20s and 30s still look fresh and beautiful.

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. Now anyone could be a model....

Without having to starve to death!