France's Parliament on Friday passed a law banning excessively skinny fashion models. The move has been taken in an effort to curb anorexia.

The legislation has also demanded that advertisements with Photoshopped models carry a message, noting that the images have been manipulated.

Under the law, there is a penalty of more than $80,000 and up to six months in jail for the fashion houses and modeling agents, if they don’t abide by the law.

According to Reuters, the lawmaker who introduced the legislation said that if the models want to work, they would be required to present medical certificates showing that their Body Mass Index is not less than 18 before being hired. For example, a 5’10 model would have to weigh 125.5 pounds, under such guidelines.

The legislation said, “The activity of model is banned for any person whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is lower than levels proposed by health authorities and decreed by the ministers of health and labor”.

The lower house of parliament, in addition to it, has also passed an additional measure prohibiting pro-anorexia Web sites. The violators of this measure would be fined over $100,000 and up to a year in prison.

France’s fashion and luxury industries are worth tens of billions of euros. The country has taken taking this move after a similar ban by Israel in 2013. There are other countries, including Italy and Spain which rely on voluntary codes of conduct for the protection of models.

Thus, France has become the latest country to legislate against companies using dangerously thin models, after Italy, Spain, and Israel.

The move taken by France is part of a campaign against anorexia by President Francois Hollande's government.

In addition, the lawmakers have also made it illegal to overlook condone anorexia. They have said that any kind of re-touched photo, altering the bodily appearance of a model for commercial purposes need to carry along a message mentioning that it had been manipulated.