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Spain’s Cibeles Fashion Show, the country’s most important fashion industry event, wasn’t joking when it said it wouldn’t accept ultra-skinny models on its runways. The policy was instated this year to ensure that tragedies like those happening among Latina models in South America wouldn’t repeat themselves in Spain, and today the decision was put into action as Cibeles rejected five of its 69 models for “extreme thinness”:

The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, decided in September 2005 not to allow women below a body mass to height ratio of 18 to take part.

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