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Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Supermodel

Because sexualized photos of a prepubescent girl are completely normal, concern over the exploitation of 10-year-old Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau has been dismissed as American puritanism. She's from the Ivory Coast, has been featured in Vogue and has a slightly disturbing online fan base (although Tumblr seems to have taken down at least one of the blogs that was set up as an ick-inducing shrine to her). Go ahead and slap a buckle on my hat and call me Calvin, because this is creepy as hell.

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  • thepjessinator   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s Fail, WTF & Ew  about 2 weeks ago ×
  • lilyt thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew  about 2 weeks ago ×
  • sadieo thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Fail  about 2 weeks ago ×
  • vanessad8 thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 2 weeks ago ×
  • Porkchoptoo thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 2 weeks ago ×
  • kristenr2 thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 4 months ago ×
  • benjamina2   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s Art?, WTF & Cute  about 9 months ago ×
  • daras thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew, WTF & Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • smg7320 thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF & Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • jnaw thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • SarahEarly thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew, Trashy & Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • I don't think how anything past the first two photos can be taken as sexual, unless you are really reaching. Stop being so scared of a child's skin, I do think many people are being prudes about this.

    corys2
    9 months ago
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  • v2um   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • J3nnipher thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is OMG  about 9 months ago ×
  • leahleahleah thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • taliahm thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • CTJen thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew & Trashy  about 9 months ago ×
  • Tbar thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • jjt thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • rachaelt thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • pantsie thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF & Trashy  about 9 months ago ×
  • kristyn thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Trashy, Ew & WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • 5thbeatle   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s Fail & WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • wendyconverset thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew & Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • Hey guys, crazy idea here, but maybe she enjoys doing this? and it's not all about exploitation? alot of these pictures are only as sexy as you perceive them. I think she looks pretty and maybe even fierce in a 10-year-old way. well except for that last one.

    Mariah C.
    9 months ago
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  • Mariah C.   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup...  about 9 months ago ×
  • ohaisup thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Trashy, WTF & Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • kelsm thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • marivsjvlivsi thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • zzinsider thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF & Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • Tiff M.   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s Trashy & Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • FirefromtheEast   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s Fail & WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • Gross.

    Greenbeard
    9 months ago
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  • could use a boob job

    jordanh8
    9 months ago
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  • buzzrabbit thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew, Trashy & Cute  about 9 months ago ×
  • What? No Pedobear photo!? Yall disappoint me.

    Roman T.
    9 months ago
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  • janp3 thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Cute  about 9 months ago ×
  • zeeo thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Trashy, Fail & WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • cooleroonies thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF, Trashy & Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • kimbrob thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Trashy  about 9 months ago ×
  • Luisopigio   Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... and thinks it’s Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • nickfalcoa thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Trashy  about 9 months ago ×
  • danielled8 thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • mumbalee thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is OMG  about 9 months ago ×
  • Cassandra Goldsberry thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew, Fail & WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • Nikki Lee thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • adametokillfor thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF & Fail  about 9 months ago ×
  • cap_gun_girl thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Old  about 9 months ago ×
  • A lot of these are taken out of context. None of them are sexualising and the ones of her in lipstick and high fashion are from Vogue Paris and she is with two other girls - the shoot is showcasing how we try to make kids look too old and women try to look too young. A few of those, being out of context may seem somewhat sexualised but are not worth the fuss the media is making, they are from vogue enfant and in-case you closed minded sexually repressed americans didn't know, over in europe, nobody would bat and eye at this because it is silly and not worth such a media storm. All of those minus the 1st two are from vogue enfant.  Same bullshit here 'this makes pedos' as 'video games corrupts youth' well fuck that. Parents corrupt youths and a pedo is a pedo, access to pictures or not.  Also, why are we making a fuss over this when America has 'Toddlers in Tiaras'. Start fixing issues at home before turning uneducated attention elsewhere. /rant tl;dr toddlers in tiaras is worse

    cap_gun_girl
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  • edytam thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • Jenny thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF  about 9 months ago ×
  • Crystal W. thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Trashy  about 9 months ago ×
  • Tess Moore thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Cute  about 9 months ago ×
  • soupisdelicious thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is WTF & Ew  about 9 months ago ×
  • JohnBrown thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is Ew  about 9 months ago ×
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  • Brian H. thinks Thylane Blondeau, The 10-Year-Old Sup... is OMG & WTF  about 9 months ago ×
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  • She's a beautiful girl. and if she likes modelling for VOGUE CHILDREN,well i don't see anything wrong.

    Emilie D.
    9 months ago
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  • i honestly don't see the problem. none of these pictures seem overtly sexualized.

    bens7
    9 months ago
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  • The last picture did it for me, its extremely disturbing. And yes a pedo's wet dream. In my personal opinion little girls definitely don't need to be modeling THIS WAY. Take the kids in things like old navy for example or even Target and Kmart. The only normal pictures here for a child is 5, 6, 8, 9, maybe 10. Pardon me if I seem a bit conservative or over dramatic about this? But I worry about how children are portrayed and the predators that lurk.

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  • She's a stunning girl, but she'll be just as stunning when she's 18. Perhaps her parents could (temporarily retire the cash cow) pull the plug until then. Maybe she'll actually grow into those shoes by then.

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  • It really makes me sad because this could definitely lead to her suffering from an eating disorder. And the last picture….no. Just no. So wrong. I agree with whoever said something about “pedo dreams” or something…esp the pic with her holding the doll. Yes, she is a beautiful girl, but to be a supermodel at 10 years old? Let her live her life and learn about her body by herself. And no, I don't mean that in a dirty way. Let the pretty girl live a normal life.

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  • She is very pretty. The only thing I don't like is the “come hither” look in some of the photos and the shirtless one at the end. Beads over boobs is for toddlers and Mardi Gras patrons IMO

    Christy T.
    9 months ago
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  • I would hit that so hard if she bad grades at school.

    tommos
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  • Why don't you have a seat over there?
    —Chris Hansen I think the fact that Vogue-worthy “sexy lady” shoes don't come in her size (she looks like she's playing dress-up with mommy's shoes) shows how abnormal this is.

    MMR
    9 months ago
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  • “Do you want it straight, or broken?”

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  • http://thesuiteworld.com/blog/thylane-lena-rose... [link]

    Love this photo of Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau!

    JetSetter
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  • THe issue is called VOGUE CHILDREN.
    So what's the big whoop?
    They are not using her in an adult mag to sell women's clothes.
    It's called 'dress up' We just loves us our manufactured stories while we sink into the SECOND great depression.

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  • Ten? She looks like a tall five. Either way, not cool.

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  • the last one was ridiculous. however, the majority is a cute little french girl being a cute little girl. we are so used to seeing women dressed in baby-doll dresses and trying to evoke pedo-fantasies that when we see a child donning the same outfits we get confused.

    CK828
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