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"It doesn't really look good any more," the 36-year-old was
quoted as saying in an interview with Germany's Bunte magazine. "Fashion looks good on thin models, but when you look at
today's models you can not help but think there is something
wrong. They are way too thin. It is only bones that stick out." Schiffer -- who was part of a powerful band of 1990s
jetsetting supermodels that included Naomi Campbell,
Cindy Crawford, Christie Turlington and Linda Evangelista -- was
adding her voice to recent criticism of underweight models. Madrid asked models below a certain weight to stay away
from its fashion show. Models with a body-mass-index (BMI) --
which takes into account height and weight -- of less than 18
were banned. "Models have always been thin. But today, they are even
thinner, which is unbelievable," said Schiffer, who has been on
the cover of more than 550 magazines during her career. She said she was on the heavy side when she began in 1988. "I was one of the fattest when I started," said Schiffer,
who according to a German magazine website "Modellkartei"
nevertheless has a BMI of just under 18. The website lists
Schiffer as 1.82 metres (5 ft 11 in) tall and weighing 58 kg
(128 lb). "Ever since I started having children, I can eat whatever I
want. I eat chocolate almost every day and drink whole milk so
that I don't lose any more (weight)," said Schiffer, who has
two young children. "When media started writing that I looked too thin and ill,
I went to the doctor. He said I was healthy," she said. "I
didn't gain weight after the pregnancies. I hope it stays like
that."
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