Marlene Schiappa, France’s social affairs minister, is under fire for posing for a Playboy cover amid social upheaval.
Liberté, égalité, décolletage!
A female French lawmaker has come under fire from members of her own party for posing for a très risqué Playboy cover amid ongoing social unrest over pension reforms –and taking a public dig at President Macron in the process.
Marlene Schiappa, a feminist author-turned-junior social economy minister, sparked outrage after appearing in a low-cut white bodysuit exposing her cleavage and spread legs in the April/June issue of the French Playboy.
The Playboy cover will be accompanied by a 12-page interview in which Schiappa, who made a name for herself by spearheading legislation outlawing catcalling and street harassment in France, talks about women’s and LGBTQ rights.
France’s Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called Schiappa this weekend to say that her photoshoot and Playboy interview were “not at all appropriate, all the more so in the current period,” the newspaper Le Parisien reported.
Source: French pol Marlene Schiappa blasted for Playboy cover
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