Claudia Schiffer's opinion on today's models - only bones stick out

Claudia Schiffer believes models are now too skinny to be attractive even though the German supermodel may herself be slightly underweight despite a voracious appetite and predilection for chocolate.

"It doesn't really look good any more," the 36-year-old was quoted as saying in an interview with Germany's Bunte magazine.
"Fashion looks good on thin models, but when you look at today's models you can not help but think there is something wrong. They are way too thin. It is only bones that stick out."

Schiffer, who was part of a powerful band of 1990s jet-setting supermodels that included Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christie Turlington and Linda Evangelista -- was adding her voice to recent criticism of underweight models.

Claudia Schiffer

Madrid asked models below a certain weight to stay away from its fashion show. Models with a body-mass-index(BMI), which takes into account height and weight, of less than 18 were banned.

Thin

"Models have always been thin. But today, they are even thinner, which is unbelievable," said Schiffer, who has been on the cover of more than 550 magazines during her career.


Thinner

She said she was on the heavy side when she began in 1988.

She'll vanish if not fed

"I was one of the fattest when I started," said Schiffer, who according to a German magazine website "Modellkartei" nevertheless has a BMI of just under 18. The Web site lists Schiffer as 1.82 meters tall and weighing 58 kg.

Please, give her something to eat

"Ever since I started having children, I can eat whatever I want. I eat chocolate almost every day and drink whole milk so that I don't lose any more weight," said Schiffer, who has two young children.

Claudia Schiffer in a bikini

"When media started writing that I looked too thin and ill, I went to the doctor. He said I was healthy," she said. "I didn't gain weight after the pregnancies. I hope it stays like that."