Tyra Banks: Too Fat To Be A Model? | BlackDoctor

Tyra Banks is applauding Vogue Magazine?s new ban on underage and too-thin models.?Earlier this month, all 19 international editors of the legendary fashion magazine pledged to stop featuring models who are ?under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder.?

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Though the restrictions might seem like common sense to outsiders, Banks, 38, says the abuse of underage models and the prevalence of eating disorders are even worse now than when she first started?and that the industry is in dire need of reform.

In an essay on The Daily Beast, Banks writes, ?There needs to be more industry-wide protections for models, and we need to be more consistent with what the acting world does: protect our minors, as well as the health and well-being of models.?

Drawing from her own experience as a teen model in Paris, Banks says she was only able to avoid the pitfalls so many others haven?t with the help of her mom, Caroline.

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