Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.

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Now, I know that models are skinny, and some of them can get very, very skinny. But do they actually get this skinny? The stomachs of the models in these shots look unnaturally pinched.

MADRID (AP) — Organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Saturday rejected five models as being too thin to appear in this year's event.

Real women will breathe a sigh of relief: waif-like models are being pushed off the catwalk. ... I'm tired of the of McDonald's eating obese fat people complaining about skinny models.

Though they bared their bodies in Playboy, pinups Sia and Shane Barbi said models are not to blame for society's obsession with personal image;

i love my body and all, but i sure wouldnt mind bein as skinny as some of those models! they're beautiful! ... T Fashion Models - Beautiful Skinny Models ... Skinny Models V Normal Woman !

But critics point out that the same firm uses more traditional imagery to promote other brands, such as Lynx deodorant, which features skinny models.

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