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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(June 29) -- Australia has launched a campaign to rid its catwalks and fashion magazines of ultrathin models. The skinny from Down Under is that the country's youth health minister, Kate Ellis, is urging the fashion industry to put healthier, fuller-bodied and more diverse women front and center. "Body image is an issue that we must take seriously because it is affecting the health and happiness of substantial sections of our community," Ellis said, according to The Sunday Telegraph in Australia. Ian Wadle, Getty Images The Australian government is on a mission to discourage its fashion ...
Clothes look good on thin bodies. But thin bodies naked? Not so much. Naked full bodies is another matter. Or near-naked, a la actress Christina Hendricks in a corset on the cover of New York Magazine. Hendricks, a breakout star of AMC's hit show "Mad Men," is undeniably beautiful. She's also a different body type than we're used to seeing in the glamor factories of Los Angeles and New York. But then "Mad Men" is a period drama, set half a century ago. It may be relevant that most fashion designers are gay men. Thin women look more male than their voluptuous counterparts in the general ...
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