Actress Valerie Bertinelli has blamed Gisele Bundchen and her supermodel pals for modern eating disorder trends – because the leading fashion names are doing nothing to promote a healthy image. The Jenny Craig weightloss spokeswoman insists too many girls and young women are starving themselves to emulate “skinny” catwalk stars, and the models fail to understand that sizes zero and two are not the norm.

Bertinelli tells Ladies Home Journal magazine, “When there were several of those models dying from anorexia and I read that Gisele Bundchen said something about it’s not being the designers’ fault but the parents’ fault, I was like, ‘Well now, wait a minute, Miss Skinny Girl.’ “(I said), ‘Designers do have something to do with this because they hire women like you.’ “There was one designer who was proud of herself because she hired models that were a size four. And when asked why she didn’t hire a (size) six or eight, she said, ‘Because the clothes don’t look good. They don’t hang right.’ “Aren’t you supposed to design clothes that look good on real women?”

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“When Friends called I just couldn’t see myself doing it. I thought, ‘No, I can’t stand next to those three beautiful women; I’ll just look like a tub of lard.’”

Actress Valerie Bertinelli turned down the chance to be part of the Friends cast because she feared she was too fat.

I wonder who they wanted her to play? Monica?

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