The best-selling women’s magazine Brigitte announced last month that as of 2010, it would no longer feature professional models with “size zero” figures, opting instead for “real life” women. Editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert said that the move is a response to readers complaining that they felt no connection to the models featured in editorials. Lebert explained that “the whole modeling industry is anorexic” and that the magazine would now choose its models from the common pool of German women, whether it be “the 18-year-old A-level student, the company chairwoman, the musician, or the footballer”.