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18 U. Notre Dame Austl. L. Rev. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/undauslr18 and id is 1 raw text is: :ALL ABOUT THAT BASS AND PHOTOSHOPPING A MODEL'S WAIST: INTRODUCING BODY IMAGE LAW MARILYN BROMBERG *AND CINDY HALLIWELL** ABSTRACT When women see images of extremely thin women, their body image may suffer as a result. T heir poor body image can develop into an eating disorder. A handful of governments took action to try to stop models who have BMIs below a specific number from working and/or require a warning on photoshopped images (that modify models to make them appear thinner). The Authors of this article ('Authors_) created a term to apply to this newly developing area of law: Body Image L aw. T he A uthors argue that there are some areas in which the actions that governments took in Body Image Law may be lacking: insufficient sanctions in some jurisdictions, using BMI solely to assess models fitness to work and a failure to address: (i) the tiny sample sizes that fashion designers provide to models to wear and (ii) using the term :plus size beside images of certain models. This is the first scholarly article known to the Authors to create a term that applies to this newly developing area of law. I INTRODUCTION A triumph in Body Image Law has occurred during the past decade. The triumph is that a handful of governments, including the Madrid Regional Government and the Italian, Australian, Israeli and French Governments, took action to try to stop models below a minimum BMI from modelling and/or required photoshopped photographs to contain a warning stating that they were altered. If one Googles the actions that these governments took, they can quickly find that they sent the media into a frenzy resulting in significant publicity. It's not surprising that the media gave the actions that the governments took significant * Dr Marilyn Bromberg, PhD, LLB (Dist), BBA (Hon), Grad Cert University Teaching, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia, Principal Dr Bromberg Legal ** Ms Cindy Halliwell, BA, Grad Dip (Bus. Admin), Research Centre Administrator, University of Melbourne The authors thank Mrj onathan Polak, Ms Anne Greenshields and Dr Natalie Giles of The University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle Campus) and Stephane Cottin of the French Government for their assistance with aspects of their research. They also thank Dr Lara Pratt, MrAdamjardine and Msj ustine Howard for providing feedback on the article prior to submission. Finally, the authors thank M rJ oe Kaplan for translating the Israeli Photoshop Law from Hebrew to English and Ms Biancaj olly for translating the French Photoshop Law from French to English. Any mistakes are the authors- own. 1

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