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Well, it's finally happened. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has taken time out of her busy catwalking schedule to defend the trend of uber-skinny fashion models. Gisele, who is not at all biased in this particular area, explains that healthy eating habits are learned/formed in the home, and not (as previously thought) on the runway.

The Amazonian beauty attempts to rouse our sympathy, claiming that her heroine chic look was initially mocked by classmates, and attributing her eventual success and healthy passable BMI to the family she never sees:

"I never suffered from this problem (anorexia) because I had a very strong family base. Parents are responsible, not the fashion industry," she said in the Friday edition of O Globo newspaper.

Moreover, Gisele is careful to remind us that she is—in every way—genetically superior, and finishes up by detailing how the cold, unforgiving fashion world unselfishly took her under its wing:

"Everybody knows that the norm in fashion is thin," said the model who is 5'11" and 125 pounds. "But excuse me, there are people born with the right genes for this profession."

Gisele added that, as a child, her peers teased her for being skinny, calling her names like Olive Oil (meaning the Popeye cartoon character, not the viscous liquid containing a high content of monosaturated fat and polyphenols).

"In fashion I felt accepted,” she said. “I never felt lonely because I always relied on my family."

Although generally dismissed as uninformed and ridiculous, Gisele's comments immediately drew comparisons to designer Karl "Formerly Obese" Lagerfeld's earlier musings on the subject, particularly his empirically unsound contention that anorexia does not plague the fashion world.

Unfortunately, Lagerfeld was unavailable for comment, as he was busily trying to schedule his next liposuction appointment with "someone other than the plastic surgeon who did Tara Reid."