Magazine to stop using models

GERMANY’S highest-circulation women’s magazine says it will stop working with professional models in favour of women whose bodies better resemble those of its readers.

Andreas Lebert, editor-in-chief for Brigitte magazine, said future photo spreads will feature a mix of prominent and unknown women who “have an identity” instead of those with “protruding bones”.

It is the latest restriction on ultra-thin models, including a 2007 Spanish law banning the extremely thin from catwalks.

Brigitte, with more than 719,000 sales per issue, remains Germany’s most-read women’s magazine.