ditching the skinny look

Indian models flaunted their flesh at the country's top fashion event, ditching the skinny look for healthy curves and joining the global backlash against "size zero". With deeper cleavages and ampler derrieres, Indian models are generally better endowed than their Western counterparts, but that has not stopped them winning top global beauty pageants. India followed Madrid last year by banning underweight models from the catwalk, saying it wanted to project an image of beauty and health, not starvation. The show's organizers said they ran a check on models to find out if any of them suffered from eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia. The health code applied to male models as well. Indian health experts say many girls in India's cities and small towns were suffering from the brittle bone disease, osteoporosis, and anorexia due to strict dieting.