Fashion Model Scouts Target Girls With Eating Disorders As They Leave A Clinic

Fashion-model talent scouts approach extremely thin girls as they come out of the Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders, Dr. Anna-Maria af Sandeberg claims. The sick girls, who go into the clinic for treatment for a range of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are of interest to at least one Swedish modeling agency, which seems to find their emaciated bodies ideal for their recruitment campaigns. In an interview with the Swedish newspaper, Metro, Dr. Sandeberg, Director and Chief Physician at the clinic, said: "We think this is reprehensible...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eating Disorders Source Type: news