Age Limit - Sao Paulo Fashion Week

A major Brazilian fashion event has moved to bar models under the age of 16, part of a national effort to increase awareness about eating disorders following the death of a 21-year-old model from anorexia last month.

"In Paris and Milan, models under 16 years can't participate in these types of events," Paula Marini, a spokeswoman for Ford Models, said Thursday. "In Brazil this is a new procedure."

Next month's Sao Paulo Fashion Week added the minimum-age requirement to a previous rule that modeling agencies present a signed medical certificate proving their models are in good health.