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/

Come on Mumsnet , perhaps the powers that be can get something moving!

(I am not techy enough and wouldn't know where to start)

sherbert - not quite sure what you want to achieve. This is French Vogue, so what would starting a UK petition achieve? I cannot believe for a moment that British Vogue would have ever published these images.

10 years old! Where has the element of fun gone from this child's life?! Thinking that it's all about the lastest 'in' fashion and accessories is desperate measures for Vogue. Are their marketing team really that desperate?? I wouldn't dream of conveying this message to my little girl.

sherbet you can indivudually email publisher express dissatisfaction
conde naste press room

Sorry - I don't really feel that outraged ....

The child is healthy, happy and somewhere along the line she and her parents consented to doing this.

It is no worse than those parents who enter their darlings into baby competitions, put them up for 'Britain's got Talent' or be included in the parental shows like Supernanny.... usually those shows show really underaged kids in distressing circumstances.

I wouldn't do it to my children, but that isn't the issue

That image is truly shocking. She is a child, fgs. I am appalled at Vogue. Would they let their own daughters pose like that? Perhaps they would, their view of what is acceptable seems so warped.

Oh look, soft porn for peadophiles on our newsagents shelves.

I'm horrified by the tiger one

Itsjustafleshwound: It's in no way comparable to having your child on Supernanny. It's conveying the message that a child is an object of sexual desire.

appalled any parent allows overt sexualisation,branding and selling of a young girl as a commodity. the application of make up, the sexual pose,the accessories used.it is all gross

at 10yo she cannot possibly know or understand the imagery and its potency. for her i expect is is a fun day being fussed over

BUT her parents should know and understand the potency of the image.maye they ameliorate this with some guff about she likes dressing up etc. but to make profit out of selling wee girl in provocative imagery well there is a name for that

pimps springs to mind

Sexual desire??? What is the demographic for Vogue - why on earth would sexual desire come into it???

The children on Supernanny have no say in participation and are shown most times in severe distress

Gosh she is beautiful.

But some of the images are just repellent - I like the ones of her sitting in front of the mirror, in the cornfield and in the shorts and the daft hat - but the others are hideous. Overtly sexual and provocative. Which is just entirely wrong for a pre-pubescent child.

The demographic for Vogue I suppose is anyone who wants to buy it/look at it.

Do ten year olds consent? My then 13 year old wasn't even allowed to consent to her own HPV jab; I had to do it for her.

the image is reproduced on news and online sites.not just vogue

And actually, it could be argued that if the target demographic of Vogue is well-heeled women then that might have the effect of normalising repellent images?

only if you model your behaviours/values upon print media

What is the main difference between these shots in Vogue, and shots of children that is currently circulating in secret online, and which the police are trying to clamp down on.

well quite big differences
1.namely consent parental knowledge
2.reproduction in legal respected medium
3.veneer of respectability

1. not seeking to be illicit. freely available and on sale

I know we've already established that she's French, but I'm a bit irritated with the "well Americans dress their little girls like prostitutes" nonsense. No, we don't. Most ten year olds around here look like this , actually.

And I find it interesting that it's a poster here said "given that america has 3 year olds dressed like playboy bunnies" and yet on lots of message boards on other forums about this child it's all "there's nothing wrong with this, all the controversy is just another example of America's uptight culture." So which is it, eh? Either we slap a t-shirt emblazoned with "future porn star" on our daughters the second they emerge from the womb or we're repressed prudes. Pick one and stick with it, thanks!

FWIW this girl is lovely. Lots of girls are. Who knows what she'll look like when she's an adult? I find it abhorrent to put so much emphasis on a child's looks. But that's probably my uptight culture talking.

Take away all the make-up and trashy clothes and what a beautiful child.

However YANBU, she shouldn't be dressed as an adult and certainly shouldn't be paraded as an adult. Peodophile's dream. She's the same age as my son who still thinks farting is funny and who is very rarely seen without a muddy face - nobody would believe he is the same age as this girl.

Oh and as for the American thing - well when we were in America 12 year old girls LOOKED 12, they looked like sweet little kids.

Walking through town the other day my DS said hello to a group of what I assumed to be 14/15 year old girls in mini-shirts, tight shorts and heavy make-up. I said "who are they??" and he said "oh they're in my class at school". He's 12!

Us Brits are just as guilty I'm afraid.

just terrible. nothign to do with paedophiles really. its more sad that this 10 year old girl is being held up as some sort of desirable image, something grown adult women might want to look like. yes she's beautiful, but grown women have a different type of beauty to children.

more stomping on the idea that having boobs and hips and a feminine shape is normal, more reenforecment of the idea that we should all starve ourselves into a stick shape and put appearance before character, intelligence, acts of kindness etc etc.

ok so magazines like that are all about promoting appearance, it just distresses me the gaping gender gap in expectations and the resulting changes in how the next generation of young men and young women perceive their roles in lives. I'm not usually one to harp on about feminism and equality but just imagine how peverse it would be if an aspirational men's magazine was to show pictures of a half naked 10 year old boy. it would be laughable. why is it not laughable in a women's magazine? so sad.

it is sexualisation and girl as commodity.dont know what her parents were thinking

The thing is, could you imagine showing some of these images to a teenage lad and saying "guess her age". I can't imagine any of them saying 10. Infact some of them might even make the mistake of admitting to finding her attractive until they realised how old she was. It's wrong. Let kids be kids. Plenty of time for pouting at a camera in heels and make-up when she's older.

CheerfulYank
I asusme most of the posters who have said that have not lived in both countries. They have watched some horrible pagent show set in America. Overt sexualization of children especially girls is one of the reasons my DH (english) and I have decided to leave England to return to the states. Future wag tshirts and the like make my blood boil. But hey any chance for america bashing (even if the kid in question is not american...whoops)