Cenk Uygur
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Awful - Modeling Scouts Recruit at Eating Disorder Clinic
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April 20, 2013
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3:32Now Playing"Because skinny is more important than healthy, some modeling scouts in Sweden have taken to hanging around outside of eating disorder clinics to find new models. Yes, I'll say that again: modeling scouts are approaching girls — some of them too weak to stand — at the Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders and offering them modeling contracts. Dr. Anna-Maria af Sandeberg, who helps run the clinic, said the scouts are "repugnant" and send the "wrong signals when the girls are being treated for eating disorders."*
A Sweden eating disorder clinic is now the go-to spot for modeling agencies to prey on young women with serious disorders. What does it say to a teen struggling with anorexia when an agent says her disease will make her a modeling star? Cenk Uygur and Gina Grad discuss.
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