Thursday, July 10, 2014

Viral World Cup Model Causes Uproar With Crass Hunting Photo And Caption - Business Insider

Belgian 17-year-old Axelle Despiegelaere became internet famous this week after photos of her in the stands at the World Cup went viral and led to a L'Oreal modeling contract.

Facebook fan page for Axelle has accumulated over 230,000 likes and upon her arrival back to Belgium, the attractive teen set up a Facebook page of her own that has over 19,000 fans.

Axelle filled her page with photos from her trip to Brazil  rooting for Belgium dressed in the country's paraphernalia, enjoying the beach in a bikini, and funny photoshops.

But one photo Axelle posted was unlike the rest — a picture of her holding a rifle, proudly sitting behind what appears to be a dead gazelle she shot while hunting.

The caption read: "Hunting is not a matter of life or death. It's much more important than that..this was about 1 year ago...ready to hunt Americans today haha."

Fans were immediately outraged by the image. Realizing the post may be offensive, Axelle changed the caption to read simply: "this was about 1 year ago..."

When fans didn't let up, Axelle responded to the criticism in the comments of the post Wednesday night:

 

By Thursday morning, Axelle's entire Facebook page had been deleted.

L'Oreal has not returned our request for comment, but a video Axelle shot for the cosmetics company is still up on their Facebook page. 

The video's description states: "Discover the beauty secrets of the most beautiful supporter of the World Cup!"

See screenshots from the video, which features Axelle using many L'Oreal products, below:


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