Carole White needed a cigarette during her interview with 60 Minutes, after she walked out on Tara Brown.

Carole White, who owns Premier Model Management — an agency listed as one of the Top 10 in the world by Forbes — walked out of the sit-down with journalist Tara Brown on Sunday night, because she didn’t appreciate the “terminology” used in the interview.

Brown’s story focused on two young models who detailed their experiences in the industry, including dangerous diets and relentless pressures to be a certain size.

Ms White was included in the story to discuss the industry from a management perspective, but when probed by Brown about their treatment of young models — she went on the attack.

Model agent Carole White walked out on Tara Brown.Source:Channel 9

“You’re words are really strong actually,” Ms White said, in response to Brown’s question about lying on model booking cards when filling out measurement details.

“It’s quite annoying me ... you are annoying me.”

Carole White has represented Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford in the past.Source:Channel 9

Brown responded: “I’m not trying to annoy you Carole” before being cut off by Ms White.

“Listen ... I will say ... I am very outspoken ... but I don’t like your terminology to me,” Ms White said, finger pointed at Brown.

“I need a cigarette ... I’m very happy to answer it but I don’t like your terminology and I don’t like how you’re asking me the questions.”

Tara Brown hit a nerve during her interview with model agent Carole White.Source:Channel 9

It is then Ms White realises the cameras are still rolling.

“Are you still f**king filming me?” she says down the barrel of the camera.

“Just don’t! I’m really annoyed because I thought this would be quite a broad interview and it isn’t.”

Brown pleads with the model manager to stay for the duration of the interview, but Ms White refuses and leaves the room.

“Get me out of here,” she says.

Carole White walked out on her interview with 60 Minutes, after discussing the word skinny in the fashion industry.Source:Channel 9

Ms White, who has represented Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell in the past, was part of a wider story about how models are forced to stay unnaturally skinny in the fashion world.

“Skinny is not a bad word, Skinny is how you evolve as a young person,” Ms White argued, before storming out.

“Skinny is not a word to sneer at, it’s just how it is.”

Carole White walks out on Tara Brown.Source:Channel 9

Brown spoke with French model Victoire Macon Dauxerre about the pressures of staying thin in the industry.

Ms Dauxerre, 24, left the industry and wrote a book, ‘Never Skinny Enough: the Diary of a Top Model’ about her experience as a model.

Speaking of the dangerous battle young models put themselves through in a desperate attempt to be cast in fashion shows, Dauxerre, revealed she lived off just three apples a day and battled anorexia to try and stay skinny.

Victoire Macon Dauxerre wrote a book about the horror of the fashion industry.Source:Channel 9

She believed that in order to succeed as a top model, you needed to have an eating disorder.

Terrified of putting on weight, Dauxerre would take laxatives and enemas which damaged her body as well.

“They never told me, ‘you’re too fat or you have to lose weight’,” Dauxerre said.

“They told me, ‘you are a size eight and you have to go down to size two or four’. So I had to lose two sizes of clothes in two months.

“That’s why I actually literally stopped eating and ate three apples a day.”

French model Victoire Macon Dauxerre wrote a tell-all memoir about her disturbing experiences in the fashion industry.Source:Channel 9

Dauxerre’s revelation of the industry helped change the laws protecting models in her native France.

In 2015, the French government passed a bill decreeing that models working in the country must possess a medical certificate deeming them fit to work, in a bid to prevent the use of “excessively thin” models.

It also requires that digitally altered images — in particular those which make a model’s silhouette “narrower or wider” — be labelled “touched up”.

But Ms Dauxerre said one country supporting the bill isn’t enough, because fashion designers will just do their show in another country who don’t support the bill.

Parents who are concerned about their children can seek advice, support and access to resources by calling Butterfly’s National Support Line on 1800 33 4673 or emailsupport@thebutterflyfoundation.org.au