France has just passed legislation making it illegal for the media to promote super-thin models.

The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill in April that would make it illegal for fashion magazines, advertisers and websites to promote or publicly incite extreme thinness. The National Assembly approved the bill in a series of votes, after the legislation won unanimous support from the ruling conservative UMP party. Extreme thinness is often the result of anorexia and is often wrought with unhealthy consequences. It is still uncertain if this bill will actually become a law -- but if it does, it will be one of the strongest measures against the promotion of ultra-thinness.

This bill to make the promotion of extreme thinness goes to the Senate in the coming weeks. If passed in the Senate, it would allow judges to punish offenders with a fine of as much as €45,000, or more than $70,000, and three years of imprisonment.

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