Gisele blames parents for anorexia

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Jan 22, 2007, 12:30 GMT

Gisele Bundchen says the fashion industry is not responsible for causing young girls to suffer from anorexia - insisting it is the parents fault. The 26-year-old supermodel is adamant the families of anorexic girls are to blame for their problems, not the super-slim bodies promoted by models on the catwalks.Gisele told Brazil's Globo newspaper: "I never suffered from this problem because I had a very strong family base. The parents are responsible, not fashion."Everybody knows the standard for models is to be thin, but you can't generalise and say that all models are anorexic."In recent months, the weight of models has become the subject of an international debate as to whether the current trend for very skinny models is encouraging eating disorders in influential young girls.Last September, underweight models were banned from Madrid Fashion week and in December Italian designers introduced a requirement for models to submit proof that they do no suffer from an eating disorder.Four women in Gisele's home country of Brazil died last month from anorexia, including 21-year-old model Ana Carolina Reston.The supermodel, who previously dated Leonardo DiCaprio, left home aged 14 for a three-month modelling job in Japan, but said she always had the support of her family.She said: "You leave home, the protection of your parents, but you still know you have their support."(C) BANG Media International

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SohoJan 24th, 2007 - 22:26:55

I think Giselle is an idiot. She has no idea what she is talking about.

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Air HEadJan 25th, 2007 - 12:36:06

What is she talking about?????...first the parents are to blame and then she got support from her parents....another bimbo model with nothing between the ears.

Anorexia is a disease. An illness.

Read some books bubblehead.

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catleenAug 17th, 2007 - 11:23:03

u dumbasses!she's just sayin that it's really the families to blame but not in her case because she has a strong family base and is not an anorexia!

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HallieNov 2nd, 2007 - 17:43:52

I think it might be a reasonable response because sometimes it does have to do with parents presuring their daughters to lose some weight and be like the other girls that are so that makes them become anorexic.

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