Skinny Runway Models to Protest BULLimia in Mauritania Beauty Pageants

Skinny, underfed runway models plan to stage a protest about the practice of "gavaging" in Mauritania. It seems that in this country, obesity is a sign of wealth and beauty. Mothers want to make a girl big and plump, 'gavage' - a borrowed French word from the practice of fattening of geese for foie gras - and they start when the girls are young.

One young girl was 4 when her family began to force her to drink 14 gallons of camel's milk a day. Western runway models protested that they had to smoke Camels to keep their weight down.

Isselmou Ould Mohamed says he loves his wife's 200-pound body and was pleased when she began adding even more weight during pregnancy. When he learned she had started walking around the soccer stadium to try to shed the extra pounds, he was revolted.

"I don't like skinny women. I want her strong like bull. I want to be able to grab her love handles," said the 32-year-old. "I told her that if she loses a lot of weight, I'll divorce her."

One runway model said, with just a crumb of the thin slice of Twinkie she had a few days ago left on her extra-poofy lips, "Everywhere we go now, people don't want beautiful thin girls. If Mauritania girls start holding beauty pageants, we are going to protest that they are BULLimic."

Another 98-pound model was secretly asking another to see just where in California Mauritania was located so she could move there.

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