A Colombian advertisement campaign against cocaine has singled out Kate Moss for criticism. Last year the model was fired from a number of high-profile contracts including Burberry and H&M after pictures were printed in a British newspaper which appeared to show her snorting the drug.
But following a stint in rehab she has risen back to the top of her profession with new contracts and a recently-announced a deal to design clothes for highstreet favourite TopShop.
Colombia’s vice president, Francisco Santos, said that he found her comeback “baffling” and accused her and other coke-snorting celebrities of fuelling his country’s drugs problems.
“We need to tell Europeans that that line of coke they snort is tainted in blood,” the ad campaign, which does not feature Moss, warns. Santos launched the campaign under the banner “The cocaine curse”.
“To me its baffling, that somebody who helps cause so much pain in Colombia is doing better than ever and winning more contracts than ever,” Santos told the Associated Press news agency.
Moss has not responded to the comments.
November 2nd, 2006
Supermodel Milla Jovovich has revealed her size zero figure means she cannot get pregnant. The Ukraine-born model, actress and fashion-designer says that she needs to be skinny to get work, but fears it is stopping her having a baby. The Fifth Element star, 30, admitted she had been trying to have a child with her British film director partner Paul Anderson, who she met in 2002.
‘I’d love to have a baby and I think the only thing stopping me is my active lifestyle,’ she said. ‘I need to take a year off and eat some yummy food and then, boom, it will happen. My body won’t let me get pregnant now because it knows it wouldn’t be in a healthy environment.’
Jovovich, who also starred in Joan Of Arc, is the face of Mango’s Autumn/Winter collection and also models for L’Oreal. Healthy adult women have a Body Mass Index of between 18.5 and 25.
Size Zero models have a BMI of less than 18, which is categorised by doctors as medically underweight.
Midwife, nutritionist and acupuncturist Zita West treats about 500 women a year who are too skinny to get pregnant.
‘Weight affects fertility in a big way,’ she said. ‘Too far underweight and periods can just stop.’
Victoria Beckham, 32, was recently reported to be on a high carbohydrate diet to improve her chances of conceiving again.
Last month, one of the world’s biggest fashion shows banned ’stick-thin’ models. The Clothes Show Live said it needed to ’set a responsible example’ to the thousands of impressionable young girls who flocked to the catwalks.
November 2nd, 2006