Sunday, April 13, 2014

12-Year Old Thylane Blondeau: The New [Nude Teen] Kate Moss/Brooke Shields


Thylane Blondeau for Jalouse


12-year-old French model Thylane Blondeau is on the cover of the April 2014 issue of Jalouse - a French fashion and culture magazine. Her photograph is conservative by secular standards; however, the hashtag #BORN 2001 and the words LA NOUVELLE KATE MOSS on the cover are controversial. The hashtag confirms the fact that Blondeau is a pre-teen model and that she's following in the footsteps of supermodel Kate Moss.

I wrote in The Allure of Nymphets about how 18-year-old Kate Moss appeared nude in a Calvin Klein Obsession for Men magazine advertisement and how she related in a Vanity Fair interview that when she was 16-years-old she was told by a representative of Face magazine that if she didn't get nude, "[...] we’re not going to book you again." Thus, the fact that Jalouse is using Blondeau's pre-teen age as a selling point and that she is expected to follow in the footsteps of Kate Moss is revealing. 

18-year-old Kate Moss

Furthermore, Blondeau's behind the scenes Twitter picture is additionally revealing. Blondeau's pose in the picture is exactly like the pose 15-year-old Brooke Shields held in a 1981 Calvin Klein commercial. This is what I wrote about the commercial in The Allure of Nymphets:

In one commercial, the camera panned up her maroon cowboy boots, then up the right leg of her Calvin Klein skinny jeans, then slowly across her crotch before finally stopping at her young face. With her crotch still within view, due to her legs being spread completely open, Brooke looked seductively into the camera and said, “You wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.” Thereby, letting the viewers know that her fifteen-year-old crotch, which I would imagine the viewers could not take their eyes off of, was sans panties.


Thylane Blondeau's Twitter Picture

Lastly, Thylane Blondeau's recent pictures in Jalouse are considered by some to be tame in comparison to her pictures that were published in a 2011 issue of Vogue. The photographs caused a major stir, because despite the fact that Blondeau was only 10-years-old, she had on make-up, adult clothes, jewelry, and stilettos.


Interestingly, when one is reminded that childhood is a relatively recent invention, Blondeau's pictures may not seem as controversial. And clearly, Jalouse, Face, Calvin KleinMarc Jacobs Marie Claire and Vogue realize how powerful the allure of nymphets is and has chosen to capitalize on the allure of nymphets. 


2 comments:

  1. Lovely girl. She reminds me a bit of Milla Jovovich who became the face of Lei magazine in 1987 at the age of only 11. Thousands of men in the around the world must've lusted after her without realising how young she was LOL.

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  2. Ah, great point about Milla, which leads me to do research on her controversial role in Return to the Blue Lagoon when she was 16. Thanks...

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