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NEW YORK, Sep 21, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova revealed the pressure she endured during her modeling career to remain a size 0 top fashion icon.
The 27-year-old Victoria Secret's model told People magazine that she has struggled with her weight to the point that she endured painful diets and attempted to remain thin by taking laxative pills.
"I went through so many diets in my life. I've been very, very skinny. I've been a size 0 but I'm naturally more curvy," she said. "I ate just vegetables, carrots, tomatoes. I went from a just-protein diet to just eating apples to eating no carbs. I took laxatives. I went through all of it just to be able to model."
People said that the model's confession comes on the heels of this month's decision by Madrid Fashion Week execs to set a minimum of an 18 body index for its Fashion Week models which equals a 5-foot-9 model weighing around 122 pounds.
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