Oklahoma Governor's Daughter Goes GaGa

The Family Leader's marriage values pledge isn't the only undignified and inappropriate item to come out of conservative politics. Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin's daughter Christina Fallin-Bacon's fashion photo spread from Twenty-Something magazine -- which named the First Daughter their August Girl of the Month -- may not be what right-wing politicians have in mind for the youth of today.

The above photos are screen shot from the video removed from Twenty-Something's website which has since reappeared on the web.

The video features the First Daughter dancing in one of the Governor's Mansion's main rooms in a sheer white sheet dress revealing her black underpinnings, rolling on the ground outside the mansion and mincing in pseudo-Courtney Love/Lady GaGa-esque garb. The whole video is set to really dreadful techno-dance music.

Some photos are available the magazine's Facebook page.

Perusing Twenty-Something's current and past issues gives an insight into how fashion is playing out in Oklahoma's youth culture, as seen and shaped by twenty-somethings. It's kinda mall-y, with an emphasis on flash and cash. I wonder if newlywed Christina Falin-Bacon will use this spread as a launch for a reality TV series. She's got all the earmarks for turgid drama: Just married daughter of a conservative governor, with an apparent desire to become a noticed socialite and force in the youth culture of her state.

Governor Fallin (rhymes with Palin) is Oklahoma's first woman governor. She ran on the values of "Faith, Family, and Freedom." Her husband Wade Christensen has received $1.9 million in federal farm subsidies. Gov. Fallin divorced her first husband in 1998, during her second term as Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (she was the first woman to hold that office in Oklahoma's history and later only the second woman Oklahomans ever elected to US Congress) amid rumors of an affair with her bodyguard, who resigned over "improper conduct."

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Comments

[misspolk]

08:28 PM on 07/17/2011

As an Oklahoma native who now works in the fashion industry in New York, I wonder whether this article intends to embarrass Mrs. Fallin-Bacon or her mother. "Undignified and inappropriate" is how you describe a fashionable young woman dressing up and enjoying her life? Or is she just supposed to keep her individualistic sense of spirit repressed and under wraps like a good conservative's daughter?

I can't say that I agree with any of her mom's politics, but I went to school with Christina for years and I applaud her for being herself and more importantly, enjoying her life. She never smiled in school. And Jesus, can't you imagine how hard it is to be different in Oklahoma? I moved to London when I was 18. She has been braving it out on the prairie.

[TheAntiOkie]

02:03 PM on 07/18/2011

Yep - it's gotta be hard being the daughter of one of the top ten biggest hypocrites ever to walk.....

[LMPE]

04:10 PM on 07/16/2011

Nothing could be funnier than if the daughter of some ultra-reactionary fundy Christian politician becomes the next Lady Gaga.

[Allen Ryel]

12:31 PM on 07/16/2011

Is this what we can expect from an ultra-conservative Republican that hates so many of our citizens? Perhaps she should pray for something besides rain!

[DogDancer]

02:54 AM on 07/16/2011

There's a "youth culture of her state" -- Oklahoma?

(Sorry, Oakies. Lots of good stuff goin' on there, I'm sure...but this is just silly.)

[Lisa Derrick]

09:44 AM on 07/16/2011

Glad you spotted the tongue in cheek...

[BrittanyOKC]

12:03 PM on 07/16/2011

Governor Fallin's name does not rhyme with "Palin." It rhymes with "Allen." And regardless of our state's majority politics, there is indeed youth culture in Oklahoma. But I don't need to defend my home and place that I love to anyone. Your attitude about our state says a lot more about you than it does about Oklahoma.