Girls under 16 'should not model'
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Girls under the age of 16 should not model at London Fashion Week, an inquiry recommends.
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"You're basically being told, 'You can believe what you like, but don't let it impact into the public sphere.'"  A teenage girl banned from wearing a chastity ring in class took her case to Britain's High Court on Friday, arguing that her school had violated her religious freedom.Lydia Playfoot, a 16-year-old student at Millais School in Horsham, about 40 miles south of London, wears the ring as a sign of her commitment to abstain from sex until marriage. Many Christian teenagers worldwide wear the chastity rings, which were inspired by 'The Silver Ring Thing,' an abstinence program launched in the United States in 1996. Read more
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Strippers and pole dancers should be banned from performing in stretch limousines, according to a British report.
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MORE than two-thirds of London parents have banned their children from internet chatrooms fearing they may be talking to paedophiles, a survey reveals today.   Nevertheless, according to a second poll, a huge number of children are putting themselves in danger with illicit online activity.
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Petra Nemcova knows what it's like to struggle to stay thin and continue modeling. "I'm naturally more curvy, so I always had to lose weight," the 27-year-old Czech supermodel says in People magazine's Oct. 2 issue, on newsstands Friday. "I took laxatives. I went through all of it just to be able to model."
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Spain's top fashion show has turned away a slew of models on grounds they are too skinny &#151; an unprecedented swipe at body images blamed for encouraging eating disorders among young people.
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Moroccan U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast are alleged to have sexually abused girls as young as 13 over a three-year period as units rotated through the West African country, U.N. officials said.
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Or at least that is the way in Madrid, Spain's couture shows. One of the major fashion capitals in the world recently banned models with body mass indexes (BMI) of under 18 from participating in the shows. This rule eliminated many supermodels includin...
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Forty percent of Britain's teenage girls have considered the prospect of plastic surgery, while fewer than a tenth say they are happy with their bodies, a magazine poll said.
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Sexualised images of girls in advertising and the media harms their mental and physical health, experts warn.
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New rules have been proposed which will ban models under the age of 16 from the London Fashion Week catwalks. The new rules will also call for chaperons for models under the age of 18. This is to âminimize the risk of children being sexually exp...
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Politicians in Spain slammed the use of models to be stand-in ball girls for the Madrid Masters. The 19 to 28-year-olds, who are likely to be in action when Tim Henman plays tomorrow, were drafted in to replace
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My daughter's doctor said she should learn to give herself breast exams. Is breast cancer really a threat at age 16?
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The surest way to get teenagers to do something is to tell them not to.
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The world's first ban on overly thin  models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage  among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions  at other venues.
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The world's first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
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A major Brazilian fashion event has moved to bar models under the age of 16, part of a national effort to increase awareness about eating disorders following the death of a 21-year-old model from anorexia last month.