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Brigitte, Germany's most popular women's mag, bans professional models | Life and style | The Guardian
* Will only use 'real women' in photoshoots

* Editor sick of 'fattening girls up with Photoshop'

Germany's most popular women's magazine is banning professional models from its pages and replacing them with images of "real life" women instead.

In what is seen as the latest attempt to stamp out the "size zero" model, the editors of Brigitte said it would in future only use women with "normal figures".

"From 2010 we will not work with professional models any more," said Andreas Lebert, editor-in-chief, adding that he was "fed up" with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bore no resemblance to ordinary women.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Oct 6th, 2009 at 01:46:10 PM EST
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Yay, great move.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Oct 6th, 2009 at 03:50:13 PM EST
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