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Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalized twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some of the weight back if she wants to work again.
A new Israeli law is trying to fight the spread of eating disorders by banning underweight models from local advertising and requiring publications to disclose when they use altered images to make women and men appear thinner.
WHO says a body-mass index below 18.5 is indicative of malnutrition, said Adato, a gynecologist.
Legislator Adato said only 5 percent of women had BMI that naturally fell under 18.5.
