Woman dubbed 'most beautiful girl in the world' gets married three months after engagement
Now, everyone with a female partner should believe that they are with the most beautiful girl in the world, but there aren't many who can stake an official claim.
French DJ Ben Attal is one of the lucky few, after he married Thylane Blondeau this week, a woman who was dubbed the most beautiful girl in the world by Vogue Enfants when she was just six.
The title catapulted her into the public eye, but also sparked debate. Aged 10, pictures of Blondeau in adult makeup and clothes in a 2011 French Vogue supplement sparked widespread conversation over the sexualisation of children.
ABC News reported at the time that her mother closed down her Facebook fan page due to the backlash, writing: "Thylane doesn't know about the buzz and i want to protect her from the deapest [sic] of my heart ,,, she's so young."
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Seven years later, Vogue pledged to only work with models aged 18 or over.
Aged 17, Blondeau was dubbed the most beautiful woman in the world when she came top of TC Candler's 2018 annual awards list, even if she wasn't that keen on the title this time around.
Now 25, the celebrity model has worked for some of the biggest fashion brands in the world, and she announced her engagement to Attal back in March.
Posting the news on social media, she wrote: "I said yes to my best friend. Here’s to forever," alongside an image of her showing off a rather expensive looking engagement ring.
And just three months on, the couple who have reportedly been dating for six years, made their marriage official with a celebration in Paris. Where else but the romantic capital of the world?
The couple even bucked the usual wedding tradition by arriving together, although I suppose if you've got the most beautiful girl in the world on your arm, you might well want to see her at all times of the day, even if it means seeing her before the wedding.
Thylane, who was born to retired French footballer Patrick Blondeau and TV presenter Véronika Loubry, was signed up to Jean-Paul Gaultier when she was just three after she was spotted walking alongside her mother down the Champs-Élysées, making her catwalk debut aged four.
Blondeau told The Telegraph: "My mum said, 'No, she's not with an agency, she can't do this.' Jean Paul Gaultier said, 'She has to be there tomorrow.' So Mum was like, 'Why not?'"
Back in 2020, Thylane branched out from modelling and founded her own clothing line called No Smile, which focuses on welfare and beauty standards set in the fashion industry. All of the pieces come with the tagline: "I'd rather no smile than do a fake smile.”
Thylane has spoken candidly about the unrealistic weight expectations people working in modelling are often forced to adhere to.
She previously said: "I don't want to be skinny. Even if people are like, 'she's not that skinny, she can't do this show,' I'm just like, 'ok fine, I'm not going to do that show.'
"I'm not going to be skinny and not eat for them. If I want to eat, I can eat. I eat burgers. I'm not going to change this ever."
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James Moorhouse