An old picture of a very young French female model, that was controversial at the time, is now being shared claiming it shows a boy

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Published on April 9, 2019 at 10:28
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By AFP South Africa, Tendai DUBE

A post shared more than 23,000 times on Facebook claims that “little boys now do ‘glamour shoots’ in women’s clothing”, presenting a picture of a child model dressed in high heels and heavy make-up. The post however presents pictures from a 2011 fashion spread of French girl model Thylane Blondeau, who was 10 at the time.

The post, archived here, started being shared and commented on recently, including in South Africa, after being posted more than one year ago. It reads: “The fact that little boys now do 'glamour shoots' for magazines dressed in ladies clothes is a damning indictment of just how far the West has fallen. This is the LGBT agenda in American [sic] and in our schools.”

Some commenters expressed outrage while others correctly identified the model as Blondeau. Some who recognised the original model expressed outrage at the presentation of a 10-year-old girl in a glamorous Vogue Paris photo shoot.

A screenshot taken on April 5, 2019 of the misleading post by Michael Moore

The original shoot led to a backlash -- not because people thought the model was a boy -- but because Blondeau was only 10 years old at the time.

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