10 year old Vogue model

[sherbertdipdab]

VOGUE FGS

just when you thought it couldn't get any younger :(

www.inquisitr.com/132475/10-year-old-vogue-model-thylane-lena-rose-blondeau/

[porcamiseria]

shes french, not american, sorry !!!!

[sherbertdipdab]

do they really think we would buy clothes worn and modelled by a 10 year old.. the more you think about it the grosser it becomes

[DitaVonCheese]

More pics I think the one with the gold dress slashed to the waist is the worst. She is French apparently.

[MumblingRagDoll]

It's disgusting. Vogue attempting to be cutting edge and only succeeding in looking like desperate idiots. The child is lovely...but then so are most ten year olds....especially plastered in makeup.....what do they want exactly?

For grown women to think "Ooh must buy that dress..then I will look like that 10 year old!"

Or do they want 10 year olds to read Voue? It's very stupid and very disturbing and I'm a very permissive thinker....I feel so angry at Vogue.

[DontAskMeSums]

YANBU
Cheap and sleazy.

[sue52]

Exploitative and very wrong. What were her parents thinking?

[EduStudent]

Fastweb completely summed up my thoughts on this.

[Icelollycraving]

She is so beautiful! She has such a photogenic face,stunning,but certainly looks older.There are some pictures on the second link which are more age appropriate but the gold dress & the first one on the leopard print are really quite grotesque styling,I assume it's to court publicity though. Any press is good press thinking? Grim.

[strictlovingmum]

Wrong, wrong, very morally wrong, but her face is so beautifulthe girl is a stunner.

[SomethingBlue]

That is absolutely grotesque. The one of her running through the cornfield gives a glimpse of what a child that age should be doing. The 'knowing' looks at the camera make my blood run cold.

[LineRunner]

There was a previous thread a couple of months ago, about whether a 12 year old should be signed up as a fashion model.

I said 'No' [quite vociferously] and was variously accused by some other mothers on the thread of being 'angry', 'aggressive' and 'jealous'.

I was surprised, but not in a good way.

I really do think that using child models for women's fashion is exploitative, not in the best interests of women and girls, and creepy.

[archieleach]

But is there anything that can be done about it?
I do hope so. Race to the bottom I guess.

[LineRunner]

SomethingBlue, The Observer hasd something similar on/in its magazine a while back. Haven't bought it since.

[ZZZenAgain]

tacky and irresponsible parenting IMO. Why do it? They have money (perhaps they'd like more?), they are minor celebrities in their own right I think in France, so just a bit on the stupid side I presume.

[olibeansmummy]

That's shocking especially the picture with no top on and all the necklaces covering where her boobs would be if she was actually old enough to have them. Awful . The picture of her in the cornfield is lovely and appropriate though and seems to be for children's vogue ( can't believe there actually is one!) why couldn't the have stuck with that?

[RockinSockBunnies]

That child is absolutely stunningly beautiful. She does look older than 10. The clothing and poses are weird - deliberately controversial and thought provoking.

Then again, remember Brooke Shields....didn't seem to do her career any harm.

[RoundOrangeHead]

she is such a beautiful looking child, she doesn't need the gimmick of being dressed like an adult for her to gain publicity

she will obviously be successful without all the controversy

[scottishmummy]

sexualisation of youngsters is abhorrent.vile

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

LineRunner... I remember that thread. I think the difference is that this 10 year old is being dressed up like an adult in really inappropriate clothes and the 12 year old had the opportunity of being signed up (as a 12 year old), with the potential of being ready to work at 16 or thereabouts. I don't see anything wrong with a 12 year old modelling age appropriate clothing, I think it's a good opportunity for the child to earn money for later on as long as the mother doesn't start trying to live through her child.

[LineRunner]

Hi Lying. How are you this fine day.

I thought I was really clear on t'other thread that my views were about children actually doing women's fashion modelling when they are still children, as opposed to little Billy showing off his new dungarees whilst playing with a tonka truck in the Argos catalogue.

I still got jumped on! Sigh.

[LolaRennt]

I can only imagine the kind of people who will want to buy the magazine for the photos, because,again, most adult women aren't going to be interested in a 10 year old tarted up and laying on a tiger skin rug will they?

WTF are her parents on. Seiously.

[Servalan]

Good grief- on what planet is this anywhere approaching acceptable?! Don't know why I'm so shocked really, the pressures on young girls to grow up too quickly are all around us.

Personally I don't think the question of whether it will do her career any harm in the future is the issue here. I don't think anything that chips away at the the general view of child sexualisation being abhorent is at all healthy. It is not something that should ever be normalised.

It's deeply cynical and very depressing.

[superv1xen]

YANBU

[lachesis]

Yuk. I haven't read Vogue for years because of its predeliction for underage models who look eating-disordered or drugged.

What kind of parent allows this?

[sherbertdipdab]

Anybody any good at doing those online petition things.
I'd def sign it!