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THIN is not in, not in Israel anyway. The country may pass a law requiring all models to undergo weigh-ins every six months to ensure they are not underweight. One of Israel's most successful fashion photographers, Mr Adi Barkan, discovered the true scale of the problem when a television company filmed him searching for new faces. Of the 12,000 aspiring models he auditioned, Mr Barkan found that 1,644 were so thin that they should have been hospitalised. Many who were 1.7m tall weighed just 35kg to 40kg. If the law passes, all the women on modelling agency's books must have a body mass index (BMI) - a height-to-body fat ratio - of at least 19.
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