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Normally I am all in favor of freedom - freedom of expression, to wear what you like, to live how you wish as long as you don't interfere with anyone else's freedoms. It is with a heavy heart that I would seek to ban anything that is not illegal. But the skinny things parading up and down the catwalks of the western world are a dreadful role model for our young girls.

These models live dangerous lives, eating minute amounts. Their health suffers in the short and long term. They do irreparable damage to their organs. A number of skinny models have died in their pursuit of what they see as the perfect body. Why on earth would they consider a pack of bones with skin over them as looking in anyway remotely attractive? It may sound rude, but nobody in their right mind wants to look at such bodies...except impressionable teen girls.

They see the models as successful. They achieve fame and riches. The young girls want to follow in their footsteps. The are led to believe that they too have to become sickly thin to do so. They start either not eating hardly or sicking up what they have eaten. Despite the pounds coming off, they still look at themselves in the mirror and believe they are fat. They have become mentally ill as well as physically ill.

Models are supposedly wearing clothes on the catwalk that are meant to appeal to the rest of the population at large. How can we possibly judge whether those clothes are going to look good on us when they have been given a twirl by someone whose body is abnormal? Most of us want to see normal models on the catwalk. The organizers are trying to present us with what they feel is the body beautiful. I for one want to see the type of body I see every day in the street.

Get those skinny models off the catwalk. Replace them with real, healthy and attractive women.

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