Anne Hathaway asked Devil Wears Prada 2 producers not to include ‘alarmingly thin’ models

Anne Hathaway is making a change in Hollywood that it desperately needs

The Devil Wears Prada was one of many movies that made me fall in love with the world of journalism, but it's also one movie that makes me flinch when it comes to body image.

Emily proudly exclaiming, "I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight," is just one line that has haunted me since the movie debuted in 2006.

I thought we had made progress in the years since The Devil Wears Prada aired, but it feels like we are only going backwards, with heroin chic making an unwelcome comeback and concerning thinness and jutting bones being the biggest accessory this award season.

I used to love award season, but now it's a reminder that Hollywood only views one thing as beautiful, and that's alarming thinness. Some of our favourite actresses are now gracing red carpets with jutting collar bones and have helped add to the glamourisation of the heroic chic aesthetic. It's heartbreaking to see, and it makes me feel like Andy in The Devil Wears Prada when Nigel scolds her for being a size 6 (that's a size 10 for us in Ireland).

Our beauty standards stem from Hollywood, and so many stars are adding to the already alarming trend, except for Anne Hathaway.

The themes and dated attitudes on weight in The Devil Wears Prada clearly stuck with the actress because she made sure there would be no "alarmingly thin" models in the sequel, and it's incredibly reassuring to see someone in Hollywood make a positive change.

Meryl Streep says that Anne Hathaway told ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2’ producers that “alarmingly thin” supermodels should not appear in the movie.

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In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Meryl Streep revealed that both she and Hathaway were stunned by how thin some of the models were when they attended a show at Milan Fashion Week.

They were so shaken by what they saw that it pushed Hathaway to speak up to The Devil Wears Prada 2 team and made sure that alarming thinness wasn't represented in their movie.

Streep told the publication: "I was struck by how not only beautiful and young — everyone seems young to me — but alarmingly thin the models were. I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too, and she made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal! She’s a stand-up girl.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 lands in cinemas on May 1st.