Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are getting supersized in France. The 18-year-old actresses are promoting McDonald's Happy Meals in the 1,035 McDonald's outlets in the country.
The french fry Olsen marketing blitz began Sept. 8, a spokeswoman for the French division of the fast-food giant told The Associated Press Thursday. She refused to be quoted by name.
Ashley and Mary-Kate, who was released from a treatment facility in July for an eating disorder, are freshmen at New York University. They recently made appearances at New York Fashion Week and the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami.
The meals come either with a photo album, a denim bag or a crayon box, the spokeswoman for McDonald's said. The album bears the twins' photo, and the bag and the crayon box have their names, according to pictures on the McDonald's France Web site.
The twins made their TV debut as infants on the ABC sitcom "Full House" in the late 1980s. Their latest film, "New York Minute," was released in theaters in France on Aug. 18.
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