Here's How You Take Care Of Anorexic Models

The French National Assembly passed a bill that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.

Of course the couture folks are against the whole thing. "Never will we accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny," he said. "That doesn't exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France."

Well actually it does exist in the world, but the way this law is written it has no chance of working. The law is designed to help the estimated 40,000 anorexic women in France and the women who see the images from the Paris fashion shows each year.

Look. I don't think that watching a woman's bones pop or seeing her ribs or the coffee she drank for breakfast sitting in her stomach is sexy. I understand that designers feel like clothes hang better on overly thin women, but you know what, who cares?

I think this is what France needs to do. To work as a runway model in France you have to be within 5% of whatever the government decides are the normal height and weight proportions for a woman. Simple, easy and effective. Will overly skinny women be out of a job? Probably. But you know what? Lots easier to gain some weight, and if it is just five pounds, it probably won't kill you like losing 40. The other thing this will do is that women won't be forced to chain smoke all day to fight food cravings thereby increasing their overall health. Plus, if France does it, then every country will do it. It will also force print models to gain weight because they will look ridiculous in clothes that are too big for their skinny frames.

I also think that the number one supporter of the bill should be Donatella Versace. She should be out there everyday realizing that there are maybe a million people just like her daughter in the world, and that there will be a million more after those die.

Just because a bunch of designers in Paris who don't even like women think that bone thin is sexy, somehow the world has just followed along and said yes. We wouldn't listen to these guys for anything else, but somehow we believe them when it comes to what makes a woman sexy.