L'Oreal Severs Ties With Viral World Cup Model After Crass Hunting Photo Emerges

[joeybee12]

L'Oreal has ended its contract with 17-year-old World Cup fan Axelle Despiegelaere, who landed a modeling deal with the world's biggest beauty company after photos of the attractive teen cheering Belgium went viral.

But fans were outraged after Axelle recently posted a photo of herself to Facebook in which she is holding a rifle, proudly sitting behind what appears to be a dead gazelle she shot while hunting.

The caption, in reference to the World Cup match, 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."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/loreal-severs-ties-viral-world-131800362.html

Didn't know Belgium also had teabagging Sarah Palin-wanna-bee asshats.

[Tetris_Iguana]

1. Dumb comment

Don't know if it's poutrage worthy.

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2. Just the dead gazelle is enough to can her ass. Poutrage? WTF?

Just like that despicable Dallas Cowboy cheerleader smiling with all those dead African animals. It actually made me physically ill.

[Tetris_Iguana]

3. It's a gazelle, not an elephant.

Hunting is a time honored human tradition and can actually be a responsible part of ecomanagement.

Not to mention she looks bad ass with the gun and aviators. If I were a modeling agent, I'd sign her right away 👍

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7. ...

[joeybee12]

12. +1

Nothing else to add in comment to that apologist post above.

[otohara]

9. Shoot More Humans for Eco-Management

it's human activity that's causing the planet to melt.

This woman need a large dose of ego-management.

[truebrit71]

14. Yeah, because Gazelle is such a staple of the Belgian diet...

[Tetris_Iguana]

15. It is if you're on safari.

Btw your culinary bigotry is showing. People can eat whatever they want no matter where they're from.

[truebrit71]

17. Uh-huh..

She's Belgian and I'd wager, just like 99.9% of all other Belgians, she's never eaten gazelle...

Nice try with the 'culinary bigotry' comment though, don't you have a gun to go and hump?

[Tetris_Iguana]

18. Now now

Don't go setting yourself open to a zoophilia joke.



Also, it's never too late to expand one's diet. I eat alligator on a regular basis, and I'm glad I expanded my diet to it.

🐊+🍲=😄👍

[TexasTowelie]

19. It was a Texas Tech cheerleader.

Texans already have plenty of reasons to despise the Dallas Cowboys--Jerry Jones is at the top of the list.

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20. Sorry!

[TexasTowelie]

21. No offense taken.

I just want to keep the facts accurate.

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22. Thanks for the correction. You poor Texans have enough to deal with, what

with bagger galoots like Perry, Cruz, Stockman, and, ta da, Louie Gohmert to deal with. I do apologize for the scourge that is Ted Nugent, because he was originally from MI.

Have a great weekend!

[arcane1]

5. I wonder if "ready to hunt Americans today" had anything to do with it.

[LittleBlue]

4. She could start a reality TV/hunting show when she turns 18

Imagine the ratings.

This guy summed it up best:

I’m not going to defend her comments (or the pic). They’re dumb. They’re stupid. But seriously, do you guys know any teenagers? Because I do and I don’t understand 90% of the things they say. And I’m supposed to be hip and stuff because I work on the internet and use the words, “dude” and “bro” with regularity...

So there you have it. In summary…

-teenager goes to World Cup game
-adults use her as sex symbol for “honey shot”
-teenager later says something stupid on Facebook
-adults get mad
-teenager apologizes
-adults attack her on Facebook
-teenager deletes her Facebook
-adults tattle to company that employs her
-company, comprised of adults, fires teenager

http://guyism.com/sports/axelle-despiegelaere-fired-loreal-facebook.html

[Tetris_Iguana]

6. That's a pretty good summary. nt

[Brickbat]

8. That's a lot to go through in a few weeks.

[joeybee12]

13. Nah, she didn't apologize...she was sorry if anyone was offended...

Classic non-apology.

[KamaAina]

10. Yup, Belgium also has teabagging Sarah Palin-wanna-bee asshats.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024720221

And there's the Vlaams Belang. That's Flemish for "Tea Party".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaams_Belang

Vlaams Belang (English: Flemish Interest, or VB) is a Flemish nationalist political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels that advocates the independence of Flanders and strict limits on immigration, whereby immigrants would be obliged to adopt Flemish culture and language. The party rejects multiculturalism, but accepts a multiethnic society as long as people of non-Flemish backgrounds assimilate into Flemish culture. The party is also heavily eurosceptic. Vlaams Belang originated from Vlaams Blok, which adopted its new name and changed some controversial parts of its statute after a trial in 2004 condemned the party for racism. It has since sought to change its image from a radical to a more conservative party, and has distanced itself from some of its former programs. Most other parties have continued the cordon sanitaire which was originally agreed on against the former party, effectively blocking the Vlaams Belang from any executive power, and attempts on cutting public subsidies specifically for the party were made through the Belgian draining law. The party has been described as far-right.

[snooper2]

11. every country has low intelligence idiots, people like to think it is unique to the US

kind of cracks me up LOL-

[sarisataka]

16. There seems to be

A surprising number of teenage girls hunting in Africa.


Call me crazy but I take the hunting Americans comment to refer to th WC USA vs Belgium game played the same day as the post.
I do not approve of trophy hunting but I do not find the picture and comment offensive. Seems typical fan trash talk.