Calls for a new law to protect models from the pressure to lose weight and become dangerously thin will be debated in parliament after a successful petition campaign.
Rosalie Nelson, 23, a model who was once told that she had to slim “down to the bone” to work in the fashion industry, has raised more than 100,000 signatures, which requires parliament to debate her cause. Her petition will be presented to David Cameron in Downing Street tomorrow.
Ms Nelson will give evidence later in the day to a separate parliamentary inquiry into the use of under-age and underweight models in the British fashion industry.
The inquiry is being held by the all-party parliamentary group on body image, chaired by the Conservative MP Caroline Nokes.
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