'Scouts seek models at Swedish anorexia clinic'
'Scouts seek models at Swedish anorexia clinic'
Talent scouts have been looking for Sweden's next top model outside the country's largest eating disorders clinic in Stockholm, outraged doctors have revealed.
"If these allegations are true, it's despicable. Really bad behaviour," psychologist Andreas Birgegård, chair of the Swedish Anorexia and Bulimia Society (Svenska Anorexi/Bulimi Sällskapet, SABS), told The Local.
"For people who have an illness centered around weight and looks, it's catastrophic to throw them into a business that focuses on exactly those things."
Birgegård's reactions came following reports that patients at the Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders had been approached by agents looking to recruit new models.
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In one incident, an agent with one of Sweden's largest modelling agencies approached a 14-year-old girl and left a business card.
http://www.thelocal.se/47404/20130418/#.UXBftEr4KSo
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