'I Ate Just One Apple A Day', says ex-model Victoria Dauxerre

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The French National Assembly has adopted a series of measures to fight against anorexia, especially the use of underweight young women by fashion agencies. On BFM TV, the former model Victory Dauxerre has gone back on the years she ate nothing in order to be on the catwalk.

She knew the flash of cameras as she posed for top designers. And, the adrenaline rush of parading on a catwalk under the glitter. While the French deputies went on the offensive against anorexia, by voting several amendments to the Health Bill prohibiting the use of models deemed too skinny, Victoire Dauxerre came to testify on Friday night to BFMTV. She told of the hell in the race for thinness in her former profession.

Soon to be 23 years old, this young woman first recalls how her career began in modeling. "I was first spotted in the street, because I was already very thin," she says on our channel. In this business, most models are thin, and the thinner the better. "The problem is that right now, there is extreme pressure to get into a size 32 when measuring 1m80," she explains.

"To get there, you have to either not eat or take laxatives or do self-induced vomiting." Thus began a vicious circle. "The skinnier one is, the more you work on the catwalk. All the models do it," says Victory Dauxerre.

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She nearly died. Tried to commit suicide three times. Is only now beginning to be healthy.