the size 14 beauty lived with a group of standard ` skinnier ' models during her stint working in new york , and says that their agents instructed them to stick to a diet of ` one cracker and a couple of glasses of water ' .
` it goes to the extremes , ' wells told aww editor helen mccabe that her model friends would then compare themselves to her , who was working non-stop despite eating what she likes .
the move by france , with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of euros , comes after a similar ban april 3 .