Europe generally seems to be ahead the curve when it comes to promoting the health of models. England has worked to ban ads that abuse photoshop and now France is enforcing a law that will require models to receive a medical note that proves that are healthy enough to work and for magazines to note when an ad has been "touched up."

And to make sure everyone really follows through with the new rules, there's also the looming consequence of going to jail for up to six months and paying a fine of 75,000 euros ($82,000) to keep them in check.

Despite eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and the persistence of unrealistic beauty standards being prevalent in the U.S., little to nothing has been done to change things stateside. In 2012, Vogue adopted a new rule that required the models they hired to be over the age of 16. In their statement about the change they also stated that they planned to "encourage designers to consider the consequences of unrealistically small sample sizes of their clothing, which limits the range of women who can be photographed in their clothes, and encourages the use of extremely thin models." They also promised to be "ambassadors for the message of healthy body image."

While that's definitely a step in the right direction, it's been three years since that rule was put in place, and things haven't really changed much. Also, people continue to break the rules. It's not hard to see that it would be a good idea to follow the precedent set by the UK and France, and if not get the law on the right side of fashion, enforce it with at least half the vigilance our European peers do.