Helen Mirren is the latest celebrity to speak out about the fashion industry's obsession with size zero. She has also slammed top fashion editors for encouraging models become "horrifically thin" in order to make the pages of the big magazines.

Dame Mirren, 62, has revealed that she encountered the size discrimination in the fashion industry when she took her aspiring model neice to audition at various agencies.

She thinks it is unacceptable that every agent they visited told them her neice was overweight despite her being a normal healthy size.

Mirren strongly feels that senior fashion writers and editors are to blame for the trend of size zero in the fashion industry.

"I blame my own sex vehemently on this. It is women who run the magazine and women who editorialise and women who make the decisions,"she said to Contactmusic

"I think it is completely iniquitous to have incredibly skinny girls on the runway. A lot of the girls are horrifically thin and of course they have a problem. Mostly, the fashion industry chooses to turn a blind eye," she added.

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