Veronika Loubry, Mother Of Thylane Loubry Blondeau, 10-Year-Old Model, Responds To Critics

After a few whirlwind days of media controversy over her daughter Thylane's suggestive Vogue Paris photos, Véronika Loubry took to the internet to defend the "too sexy" photos of her 10-year-old daughter.

The TV personality and fashion designer has closed her own Facebook account as well as Thylane's. The Tumblr devoted to Thylane's photographic work, initially titled "F**k Yeah Thylane Blondeau," has also been taken down.

According to BlackBook, who took a screenshot, before shutting down Tylane's Facebook page, Véronika posted the following message:

"hey guys im the mum of thylane something going 's wrong at the moment and bad personn in usa about pictures she make's 8 mounths ago for vogue ,,thylane doesn't know about the buzz and i want to protect her from the deapest of my heart ,,, she's so young ,, so we are going to close this accompte for a while ,,i know that all of you are good person who like her so i send you a big kiss,,thanks"

While it is a relief to see 10-year-old model's mom stepping in, some might scoff at her desire to protect her young, vulnerable girl when she allowed Thylane to appear in the Vogue Paris shoot in the first place.

But although it may be too little, too late, Véronika seems to be staging a somewhat successful campaign to shut down the Internet chatter concerning Thylane.

The Gloss notes that Dani Brubaker, the photographer responsible for all the non-Vogue pictures of Thylane floating around the web, contacted them and demanded they remove the images from their site.

Brubaker's team told the Gloss:

Every photo that you are using except for the Vogue image belongs to Dani Brubaker. Since the article is in a negative tone we wish to not participate. Please remove each image from your site as there copyrighted and belong to Dani Brubaker.

Click to read the details of the controversy that started it all.

Comments

[RRrrr]

10:07 AM on 08/17/2011

We should call these people who promote kids under 16 in an 'adult' manner, "sexualized", or in beauty pageants, as... "pseudophiles" ...and disgrace them as, really, pre-pedophiles.
Sorry, stage-parents... learn the word "inappropriate".

[xosabbyleexo]

08:40 PM on 08/15/2011

i dont think her photos are bad at all! she looks perfectly fine. shes 10 she should be able to do what she like witho

[palmdesertsandra]

12:38 PM on 08/15/2011

There's nothing beautiful about the photo's being displayed, she doesn't look like a 10 year old model to me, just a little kid doing what millions of little girls do dressing up in her mother's clothes. To refer to her and the photo's as her being a model is hideous. Mother's who sensationalize their daughter's in this way are not being a responsible parent.
As always IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY.

[Jodi MooreMullins]

12:16 PM on 08/15/2011

The only purpose for photos like that is sexual exploitation, period. She is having her daughter photographed in clothes and poses that are sexually enticing to the male community for a profit. I can see those photos ending up on some guys computer as his focal point while he "helps himself". They aren't selling clothes. This kind of behavior for parents is becoming more and more common, but is still twisted IMHO. Parents are supposed to protect their kids from the evils of this world, not throw them to the lions for a profit. You are a bad mother!

[Ghiraldi Ron]

11:59 AM on 08/15/2011

We will continue to see this kind of behavior for one sole reason.... For that which most people worship more anything else; "the almighty dollar." Very sad.

[brinniewales]

10:25 PM on 08/14/2011

If she's as good a mother as she is a speller/writer, my heart goes out to the kid. Sounds like they should both be hitting the books this summer.

[PlayTOE]

12:01 PM on 08/13/2011

Sexualisat­ion of a child for commercial profit.

The mother, the photographer, and the magazine staff all thought this was OK, and the photo's were published.
Now they don't like the backlash, but do like all the free publicity.

If this mother really wants to protect her daughter, she is a bit late at protection, the damage is already done, and she signed off as a part of that damage.

[avam2009]

06:36 AM on 08/09/2011

"and i want to protect her from the deapest of my heart ,,, she's so young"

ahhh, the irony.

[atexasdem]

12:01 AM on 08/09/2011

Any time you use children in any suggestive poses you have the potential of creating controversy. Child models in age appropriate outfits and poses I have no issue with as a marketing tool. Child models in age inappropriate outfits or inappropriate poses I do have issue with. It is up to the photographer and the agency to be very sensitive and act accordingly. Child beauty contests are the rage at the moment and I often find what to me is inappropriate outfits and posing in them. I'm not for outlawing them but I do believe the potential for abuse is such that if done, everyone once again needs to be super sensitive to the potential for abuse. There is I hope still such a thing as good taste.

[Hugatreetoday]

08:23 AM on 08/09/2011

IMHO the saddest part of those contests is the glaringly obvious fact that [some?] of these children are in them because their mother's may have some form of Munchausen by Proxy thing going on. I know that's an extreme analogy but there's just something about the women who take it all way too seriously that is creepy and twisted. Listen I have no problem with parents who raise confident and self-sufficient young women. However, what some of these kids are being taught is narcissism and an inability to cope with not always winning. I could go on and on but it's just so....sad. Heck, "normal" parents do enough damage to their kids psyches as it is, let alone the rabid pageant moms we see on tv and in person. I just can't help but think that a lot of these young girls are going to have enormous self-esteem issues later in life. *shrug*

[asta1968]

09:40 PM on 08/08/2011

To me these photos are less offensive than those baby beauty pageants.

I don't know what the laws are like in France, but here most of the money she's earning would be put away for her after she reaches her majority.

[Imaginary Grace]

08:48 AM on 08/08/2011

I found the pictures to be a little creepy, they reminded me of Jon Benet and Toddler and Tiaras..trying to make young pre-pubescent girls into something else. They're babies.. let them be that.
I find the mothers reaction even creepier in that NOW she is worried and backtracking...damage done mom. Damage done.

[Hunter West]

01:10 AM on 08/08/2011

ok... first of all, chicks and gay dudes read vogue so this idea that they're trying to sell "sexy kids" or child porn is just ludicrous. kid's cute, and by cute i mean awww, not aww yeah, giggity. if you're getting that giggity feeling, see a shrink. and to be honest, ya'll lack an artistic eye for meaning behind the images.

[avam2009]

06:51 AM on 08/09/2011

oh yes? and what is the art exactly? Oh you mean a hackneyed, done to the death Ironic take on young girls dressing like their mothers - to show what? How pointless and materialis­tic it all is? While selling clothes? Please, yawn. Art - good art - is innovative­, meaningful (to someone), thought provoking in a real sense (not provoking through shock tactics and sexualisin­g a child as these pics do).

First, this was not "art" this was to sell a product, and let's get that straight. Second, as "art" it was not even close to being in the region of innovative or interestin­g. Third, if it was supposed to be art - that does not excuse the very blatent sexualisat­ion of the child and if it was, it would not be in a magazine with the sole purpose to sell material items.

It was tacky and offensive. All the very good photos were done by Dani Brubaker and she has gone to some lengths to remove herself from the vogue shots.

Finally - the mother can't even put a sentence together (translati­on aside).

[Halsey]

11:18 PM on 08/07/2011

Brooke Shield at 14 in her Calvin Klein adds would be considered SO old today. Evolution? I think not.

[Hugatreetoday]

08:09 AM on 08/09/2011

Or how about the movie she did at an even earlier age, "Pretty Baby".

[shuffleoff]

07:39 PM on 08/07/2011

The only thing more tragic is that in one of the spreads they put her in some stupid looking Indian garb...only thing that was missing was the fake tomahawk. Very disrespectful. In regards to this child, they can't get the older models any skinnier so they're now resorting to children to wear sizes smaller than 0. I'm becoming more and more disgusted with the whole fashion industry.

[Daisytoo]

06:29 PM on 08/07/2011

In other words, the mother wasn't about to let someone else, other than herself and her designated victimizers (Vogue, et al), make any cash by exploiting her child.