Miss England is 'too fat for the catwalk'

Last updated at 15:58 12 February 2007


The current Miss England was too

fat for leading model agencies

she revealed as London Fashion

Week kicked off.

Eleanor Glynn, who is a size eight and weighs less than nine stone was rejected by three of London's biggest agencies.

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The 5ft 9in beauty queen claimed the size zero look, the equivalent of a UK size four, is unachievable without drugs and is campaigning for London Fashion Week to ban size zero models.

Miss Glynn, 20, told the Lite she was turned down before and after being crowned Miss England last July.

"I was told, 'we

want size four and six’ and that

the clothes hang beautifully on

gaunt models,” she said.

“At one

agency I sat next to a girl who

looked gaunt and skeletal and I

felt fat - at the time I was a size 10. It’s incredible to think even

Miss England can’t get a

modelling contract. Normal

people don’t get a look-in.”

Meanwhile model Jodie Kidd, 28,

criticised designers who use young

girls as models. She said she was

no longer on the catwalk because

she was “positively ancient”.

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