This is not Ines’s debut in Playboy - in May 2014, the Frenchwoman appeared on the magazine’s website in the project about gender identity “Evolution.” In an interview last week, Rau admitted that taking part in the project had seriously changed her life.
Inez is not the first transgender model to appear on the cover of Playboy. In 1991, one of the magazine's heroines was a trans woman from Britain, Caroline Tula Cossey. She acted as an extra in one of the James Bond films, but at that time she did not openly talk about the fact that she had been a man in the past.
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Caroline "Tula" Cossay
Her story was unearthed by one of the tabloids - it published an article about Caroline under the headline “Bond girl is actually a guy.” Caroline was horrified that her secret had been discovered and even tried to commit suicide, but later went on the warpath against stereotypes.
In 1991, Caroline released her second autobiography, My Story, in which she described in detail all the nuances of her transition. In September of the same year, she appeared on the pages of Playboy in a series of photographs “Transformation of Tula.”
A future issue of Playboy will be dedicated to the magazine's legendary founder, Hugh Hefner, who died last month at age 91.
Today, Ines is a world-famous model, whose photographs have graced the covers of magazines such as Luvre, Vogue and many others.
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Ines Rau was born in Paris. She was a boy at birth, but at the age of 16 she underwent sex reassignment surgery, inspired by the story of Caroline Cossey. After this, Rau lived with a female identity, but without revealing that she was born a boy. Only at the age of 24 did Ines decide to come out.
At the age of 18, Rau went to Ibiza, where she met the famous French DJ David Guetta. In 2013, she posed nude for the first time with American model Tyson Beckford for a spread for OOB, a French fashion magazine. In 2014, Rau became the second transgender model for Playboy and the first to openly talk about her transformation.
In October, Cooper Hefner, Hugh's son, announced that Rau was the girl of the month for the November-December issue.
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Ines loves to try on different images, but admits that no matter who she is, no matter what mood she is in, awareness of her own sexuality is part of her personality. “I like to be sexy, but sexy is my sense of self. I don't know if I can say that, but I feel sexy all the time."
Ines emphasizes that she is not just a “glossy picture”, the model fights for the rights of minorities and for women’s rights and even more. “I will always fight for LGBTQ people and for women’s rights,” she says, “but the most important thing to me is environment. No topic moves me as much as the topic of global warming. I was created to fight for the planet: for the forest, for the animals, for the air. If I become famous, this will be the most important battle for me.”
In her latest interview with Playboy, Ines revealed what kind of guys she likes. “I prefer original, sensitive guys. Reliable. I don't like pressure. A guy should be confident yet sophisticated, with excellent manners. I also easily fall under the spell of Americans.”
Ines admitted that she is a “party girl”, it is important for her to meet new people, attend new events, especially those where people are not as constrained as usual, where they are relaxed and ready to communicate.
In terms of music, Ines prefers hip-hop and house, but enjoys listening to both classics and opera. Rau believes that they are good “for the soul.”
“Nudity should not be taboo,” says Rau. “Nudity means a lot to me.” I had surgery to become the person I want. Nudity to me is a celebration of a person who has broken barriers. This is not about sexuality, but about the beauty of the human body, male or female. Nakedness doesn't lie."
State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov appealed to the leadership of Roskomnadzor with a demand to prevent the distribution and sale in Russia of Playboy magazine, the cover of which depicts a man who has changed his gender.
It was previously reported that Milonov proposed, so the news that a transgender person would appear on the cover of this magazine provoked a response from the deputy.
Milonov called on Playboy to change its information policy
“The very fact of the appearance of a person who has performed certain surgical interventions on himself, thanks to which he began to vaguely resemble a woman, is already an attempt to promote deviation, a disrespectful gesture towards the traditional majority,” the deputy’s statement notes.
In his opinion, the spread of such a magazine in Russia “will mean the fall of another bastion of morality in Russian society.”
At the same time, Milonov emphasizes that Playboy “must change its information policy in Russia and not allow propaganda of homosexuality, sex change operations and other deviations bordering on mental disorders to appear on its pages.”
The deputy also notes that this magazine in general “has never been distinguished by high moral standards, but still it stood on the position of heterosexual, natural relationships between a man and a woman.”
This trend was broken by the edition with a transvestite on the cover, and therefore it should not be on the shelves of Russian stores, the statement said.
“If the publishers persist, then Playboy may become an undesirable magazine for any type of distribution in our country,” Milonov concludes.
Transgender in memory of Hefner
Earlier it became known that the editors of the popular men's magazine Playboy announced that for the first time in history, the “girl of the month” of this publication would be a transgender person. This “honor” was awarded to 26-year-old French model Ines Rau.
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Rau will appear as a centerfold in the magazine's November/December issue, which will also feature an in-depth interview with her. The cover of the issue will be dedicated to the memory of the founder and permanent publisher of the magazine in September 2017 at the age of 91.
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The model, whose photographs already appeared in the magazine in May 2014, said in an interview that during a photo shoot for Playboy she recalled her difficult childhood. Rau compared the title of “girl of the month” to the most beautiful compliment in her life, like a giant bouquet of roses.
Rau, who is of North African descent, changed her gender at the age of 15. She built her modeling career in the USA, performing as a backup dancer for local DJs, one of whom was the famous David Guetta. Her photographs have appeared in many fashion magazines, including Vogue.
The very first transgender person in history to appear on the pages of Playboy was in 1991 model Caroline Cossey, who also starred in the James Bond films.
For the first time in 64 years of Playboy magazine's existence, transgender model Ines Rau became the girl of the month.
The 26-year-old model has previously posed for the magazine. For example, two years ago a special issue was published dedicated to the progressive understanding of transgenderism.
Ines Rau. Photo: playboy.com
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REFERENCE. Playmate is a female model featured in Playboy magazine's centerfold as Playmate of the Month. On the central spread of the magazine there is a photograph of her in nude style, as well as short biography and basic data such as date of birth, height, weight, measurements, etc. At the end of each year, one Playmate of the Year is selected from twelve Playmates of the Month.
- On September 28, it became known that the legendary founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, died at the age of 91.
- In June, Playboy stars recreated their iconic covers to prove that women can be sexy at any age.
- On February 14, the son of the founder of the Playboy empire, Hugh Hefner, Cooper, who is also the creative director of the publication, said that the legendary magazine would again publish photographs of nude models.
- In October 2015, it was reported that the most popular American men's magazine, Playboy, would stop publishing photographs of completely naked women.
In connection with the release of the next issue of Playboy, the editor-in-chief of the German edition, Florian Boitin, said that the appearance of Giuliana Farfalla on the cover is an excellent example of how important the fight for the right to self-determination is.
It is worth noting that the photograph of a transgender woman in Playboy is not a sensation either for the magazine or for its readers, the vast majority of whom are men. Because 21-year-old Juliana Farfalla is not the first transsexual to pose for Playboy.
The famous French transgender model Ines Rau even became the girl of the month in last year's November issue of Playboy. Moreover, she proudly stated that the founder and long-time owner of the magazine, Hugh Hefner, shortly before his death in September last year, chose the issue in which her photographs were published. Reader response was mixed positive. By the way, Ines Rau first undressed for Playboy in 2014. But she is not the first beauty to appear for the magazine who was born a man.
Context
37 years ago, in 1981, the American edition of Playboy published photographs of the English model, later one of the most famous transsexuals in the world, Caroline Cossey. Cossey had a small role in the twelfth film about the British superspy James Bond, For Your Eyes Only. She was noticed by Playboy employees and invited as a model. After which the tabloid press “exposed” her, reporting that the Bond girl in the past was a boy named Barry Kenneth Cossey. But Caroline worked successfully in the modeling business, and later wrote an autobiographical book about the life of a model and transsexual actress called “I am a Woman.”
Against discrimination
It should be noted that Playboy has always opposed any kind of discrimination and xenophobia. In the 1960s, for example, Hugh Hefner published a centerfold photo of 20-year-old African-American Jennifer Jackson.
Many Americans applauded Playboy's courage, but there was also a barrage of criticism of the magazine from right-wingers who called for a boycott of the popular men's magazine. Unsuccessfully.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was an active advocate for the rights of sexual minorities. In 2012, he published his article on the pages of the magazine, in which he called on the US authorities to recognize same-sex marriages and make them equal to heterosexual ones. Three years later, this text appeared again on the pages of Playboy. The reason was the decision of the US Supreme Court to legalize homosexual unions as same-sex marriages.
Juliana in the jungle
But let's return to Juliana Farfalla. She first appeared on German television a year ago during a casting for the famous model Heidi Klum's TV show "Germany's Next Top Model." Juliana was immediately noticed and began to be invited to shoot for fashionable glossy magazines not only in Germany, but in other countries.
In an interview with the private German television channel RTL, Juliana does not hide her pride that her photo appeared on the cover of the German edition of Playboy, although she assumes that readers will be especially critical of her. “And there will probably be those who will point with their fingers and say: look, based on these signs of body structure, we can assume that this is ex-man", says Juliana.
21-year-old Juliana Farfalla has never made a secret of the fact that she was once a man and went by the name Pascal Radermacher. And he emphasizes: “The desire to become a woman did not suddenly arise in me. As long as I can remember, I always felt like I was in someone else’s body.”
At the age of sixteen, she underwent the first of a series of gender reassignment surgeries. Today Juliana is a woman. She is not only a successful fashion model, but also a participant in television projects. On January 19, the TV show Dschungelcamp starts, an analogue of the TV project known in Russia as “Big Brother”, only the heroes live in the Australian jungle, Juliana will be one of the participants in the show. So German TV viewers will be able to see her every evening for two weeks. And who knows, maybe she will become Germany's first transsexual jungle queen.
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According to the site, Ines Rau underwent gender reassignment surgery at the age of 15. Now the girl is 26, and she has already appeared on the covers of many fashion magazines and participated in glamorous photo shoots. The girl began her modeling career in New York and then moved to France. Ines Rau will not only decorate the spread and issue of the new issue of Playboy with her photographs, but will also give a detailed interview on the pages of the publication. This is the first time something like this has happened in long history publications
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IN social network A preview of pictures of a transgender model appeared on Instagram, and a brief opinion about beauty from the lips of Ines Rau herself. According to the girl, “the naked body should not be something forbidden, and should be accepted in society, no matter whether the body is male or female.” Within a few hours, the publication on the Playboy account received almost 40 thousand likes.
In a small preview on the Playboy website, the transsexual said that she had been living with the idea that she was a girl for a long time, going on dates, and even forgot about the gender reassignment operation. At first, Ines Rau was afraid of being rejected by others, and then she realized that the most important thing is to be who you are and accept yourself. According to the site, the girl also writes books and has already taken part in the filming of the film.
