You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.
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The average international runway model has a body mass index ( ' , BMI) under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.
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It keeps many otherwise qualified women off the runway.
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It allows girls under 18 on the runway.
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The average international runway model has a body mass index BMI under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.
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The British airports Authority, recently bought by a Spanish company, says the root cause of the problem is not the ownership structure, but a lack of runway and terminal capacity, which it's addressing through a programme of heavy investment.
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As if that were not enough, a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military transport plane has remained stranded near the runway of Chile's air base here since it crash-landed in 2014.
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Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.