FHM On Andrej Pejic: 'Pass The Sick Bucket'

Update: FHM posted an apology to its website, reading, in part: "Regrettably the copy accompanying Andrej’s online entry wasn't subbed prior to going live. Once we realised, we removed it immediately and apologised for any offence caused. FHM has spoken to the individual concerned and taken steps to ensure this can never happen again."

Previously: While the fashion world usually embraces the allure of androgyny, it seems there are a few media outlets that could use some catching up. Case in point: FHM, which voted male model Andrej Pejic to its "100 Sexiest Women" list...and then proceeded to insult the model for his gender-bending ways. The magazine's despicable prose was later removed from its website, but Alicia Swan grabbed a screenshot. An excerpt:

Although his sexual identity is ambiguous, designers are hailing him as the next big thing. We think "thing" is quite accurate. [...] The blonde gender-bender has jumped the gun in hoping he might one day be signed as a Victoria's Secret Model (Pass the sick bucket). Well, he might have a hard time keeping it a secret then.

We need a sick bucket after reading that bit. FHM adds:

More troubling is the fact that Andrej is not the only one when it comes to supermodels that are not all they seem. The current face of Givenchy and "lady" locking lips with Kate moss on the cover of Love magazine is transgender model Lea T. who began life as Leandro. One fashion trend we won't be following.

Uh, okay. As uncomfortable as FHM seems with Pejic's feminine appearance, it makes us wonder why the magazine bothered putting him on its "Sexiest Women" list in the first place.

Pejic just can't win lately when it comes to the newsstand. Earlier this month, his unbuttoned cover for Dossier Journal became an issue for some bookstore chains, who asked for copies of the magazine to be sold in opaque plastic bags.

Comments

[theaustralian]

08:12 AM on 07/07/2011

I doubt andrej cares, he's getting paid big.

[Senpay]

02:01 AM on 06/06/2011

That's not much of an apology.

[Hardyman1966]

04:57 PM on 06/04/2011

When you are mostly photographed made-up as a woman, wearing women's clothing and not men's suits, you are not androgynous, you are a drag queen, which is hardly newsworthy these days.

[Senpay]

02:05 AM on 06/06/2011

He most certainly is androgynous because he identifies as androgynous. In his own words: sometimes he feels like a man, and sometimes he feels like a woman. And he does, in fact, model both men's and women's clothing. At fashion shows, he also walks both men's and women's catwalks. In backstage pictures where he is wearing something nondescript (such as a plain T-shirt), he may look more masculine or feminine depending on the lighting, his hair, etc. So no, I don't think "drag queen" is entirely accurate.

[Red45]

06:31 PM on 06/03/2011

It would be nice to know what HFM stands for.

[alsm9]

03:49 PM on 06/04/2011

FHM? For Him Magazine.

[girlsgotta]

05:59 PM on 06/03/2011

And yet know one says boo about one of the hottest grandmothers out there - Steven Tyler!

[iHigh]

04:23 PM on 06/03/2011

That's a guy in drag, he doesn't seem adrogynous at all.

[IrieMoon]

03:25 PM on 06/03/2011

Beauty is subjective. My opinion is that this is a physically beautiful person regardless of what is between his legs.
Does it matter that others judge him based on such trivial things?....only to those who judge him does it matter and if they are shallow enough to judge him like that then they don't matter.

[ColoradoCool]

05:02 PM on 06/04/2011

Abso-freaking-lutely! Superb bone structure! WOW! Wish I looked like that! Fanned!

[WillCooney]

12:15 PM on 06/03/2011

I love Andrej. By any chance, is his nickname 'Tuck"?

[TAFL]

10:22 PM on 06/02/2011

FHM is a boy's--adolescent and adultolescent males--magazine. Is anybody really surprised by that getting posted on its site?

[DandaPanda]

11:24 AM on 06/03/2011

how do you feel about male ob gyn's?

[Epilef2000]

08:01 PM on 06/02/2011

FHM is clearly marketed for straight men..and its rants against androgynous people.are not surprising....though they could have just put a list of '100 sexiest androgynous ..."

[FlowerGypsy]

07:15 PM on 06/02/2011

FHM, you are disgusting and you make me sick. He isn't a "thing", he isn't claiming to be a female, he is simply androgynous, and I fail to see what is so lewd about that.

[iconico62]

05:56 PM on 06/02/2011

Perhaps FHM is run by fat, ugly smelly men. They just can see a man that looks like Pejic. Or they are just blatantly jealous. Gender bending has been with is, especially in the modeling world for quite sometime. No big deal. Most people know the difference between a man and a woman.

[G-Major Fanatic]

03:36 PM on 06/02/2011

Wait- that's a man? Other than the regret I feel right now, I actually enjoy androgyny, how it shapes our views of social norms and suchlike.

[Ken Horkavy]

08:54 AM on 06/02/2011

FHM has lost a long time reader and a straight guy. I don't know any transgender people at the moment, but I will never support a magazine that discriminates, expecially AFTER they screwed up. Do your homework, your fact checkers should be fired and you should also fire the person that wrote the response/apology. FHM has lost one reader and I know that one reader represents a billion people in advertising now, so here is to the end of FHM for being rude, callous and carless.

Ken Horkavy