Victoria’s Secret model Anja Rubik has been accused of promoting anorexia and starvation after she showed off her skeletal figure in a skimpy white dress at the Met Gala on Monday night. Anja, 28, walked the red carpet in a daring silk Anthony Vaccarello gown, which was slashed to the waist to show off her […]

The pressure to be thin has claimed another young model’s life, with British teen covergirl Bethaney Wallace dying in her sleep after a battle with anorexia. Bethaney, 19, died of suspected heart failure on April 18 after her weight plummeted to just 38kg. The beautiful teen from Newmarket, Suffolk, was 12 when she started modelling […]

Akeer Chut-Deng was just seven when the lions and hyenas came looking for blood. Until then, the tribal and sectarian violence that swept the rest of the Sudan during the late 1980s had bypassed the tiny village where she lived with her mother and family. “But then the war came, and suddenly there were bodies […]

Cindy Crawford is one of the world’s most beautiful women, but she would rather look like her 10-year-old daughter. In a sad reflection of the world’s obsession with youth, Cindy, 46, says she would swap her womanly curves for her daughter Kaia’s childish figure in an instant. “I look at my daughter and I’m like, […]

Cindy Crawford’s daughter is Versace’s newest fashion model – at the tender age of 10. No one was surprised to discover Kaia Crawford had inherited her mother’s supermodel looks, but her early entrance into the world of modelling has sparked debate around the world. Child modelling is becoming increasingly common, with French Vogue running a […]

Big is beautiful but fat should not be in fashion. That statement, made by The Australian’s fashion editor Damien Woolnough last week, sparked fierce debate in The Weekly office. It started with Myer’s plus-size runway show at Fashion Festival Sydney, showcasing their size 16-24 clothes. While most of the models in the show were professional […]