No More Twiggy for Israel-But Should It Be Legislated?
I saw a strange article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, stating that Israel will be banning models who are too thin and have a BMI of 18.5 or less from appearing on the modeling runway and in the Israeli media (meant for Israeli consumption). We all know that young girls today--mainly in the secular, but many in the Orthodox world as well--are bombarded with images of extremely thin actresses and models who have become role models for how a girl should look. This has contributed to malnutrition, poor self-images, anorexia and other eating disorders. This law was enacted in March, 2012, but is just now going into effect. I would not go as far as Ronn Torrosian does, in saying, " Israel, a light unto the nations again --" le-havdil , as they say--but an important point has been made, that girls should have better role models than deathly skinny actresses and models. This model below looks as if she is a concentration camp inmate, starving to death. ...