France bans extremely thin models http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39821036 This isn't really a surprise because France does not have any respect for the ideals that fall under the First Amendment in the United States.  But that is beside the point. The health ministry says the aim is to fight eating disorders and inaccessible ideals of beauty. If their aim truly was to fight eating disorders, logically they would have also banned extremely fat (BMI >= 30) models, seeing as how the amount of overweight people in France is at epidemic proportions (40% and climbing).  Conversely, the amount of underweight people in France is only about 0.06%. But they didn't do that.  Why?  Because it is one more step in the global trend of normalizing Fat Acceptance and HAES.  Fats don't care about self-improvement, they just want to raise the bar.  And in a country where fats almost make up the democratic majority and climbing, you can expect the cultural bar for "healthy" to keep rising and rising, until BMI of 30 is considered healthy.  Of course, medically that will never be true, but facts are irrelevant to voters.