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31/05/2016 GMT

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Life as a model eating three apples a day

Life as a model eating three apples a day.

Former French model Victoire Macon-Dauxerre talks to Mike Williams about the fashion industry’s obsession with 'thin' and how she ended up living on three apples a day.

(Photo: A vendor arranges stick-thin mannequins in a store in China. Credit: China Photos/Getty Images)

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