Slender, and even skeletal, women have long been romanticized in the West, largely thanks to the omnipresent fashion industry saturating media of all types — print, online and broadcast — with images of rail-thin women. This takes a toll: Many runway models have a body mass index, or BMI, of less than 16, a degree of thinness so severe in an adult that the World Health Organization considers it an indicator of life-threatening starvation.
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Humans, Not Hangers: Why It’s Time to Regulate the U.S. Fashion Industry
