Claudia Schiffer: Models Today Are Too Thin

Claudia Schiffer says today's catwalkers are too skinny to be attractive. "It doesn't really look good any more," Schiffer tells Germany's Bunte magazine. "Fashion looks good on thin models, but when you look at today's models you cannot help but think there's something wrong," she says. "They are way too thin. It is only bones that stick out." Schiffer's is among a chorus of voices speaking up recently about the trend among models and celebrities to be dangerously thin. Last month, the organizers of Madrid Fashion Week banned models below a minimum body-mass index from the event's shows. "Models have always been thin," she tells Bunte. "But today, they are even thinner, which is unbelievable." Schiffer says that she was on the heavy side for a model when she began her career in 1988, "I was one of the fattest when I started." She adds, "When the media started writing that I looked too thin and ill, I went to the doctor. He said I was healthy. I didn't gain weight after the pregnancies. I hope it stays like that."