L’Oreal drops transgender model for racist comments

L’OREAL’S first transgender model has been sacked by the cosmetics giant after claiming ‘all white people’ are racist.

Munroe Bergdorf, who appeared in L’Oreal’s recent ‘#allworthit’ campaign with Cheryl Cole and Katie Piper, has now been dropped from her role after saying all whites are racist. Picture: L’Oreal.

TRANSGENDER model Munroe Bergdorf made history earlier this week when it was announced that she would be the face of a L’Oréal UK campaign.

But after attention was called to her Facebook post on racism following the events in Charlottesville, the cosmetics giant decided to let her go.

The beauty brand said on Twitter that the comments made by Munroe Bergdorf were “at odds” with its values and had decided to end the campaign with her.

L’Oréal champions diversity. Comments by Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with our values and so we have decided to end our partnership with her.

— L'Oréal Paris UK (@LOrealParisUK) September 1, 2017

The Daily Mail published Bergdorf’s Facebook post in which the model said white people must “admit their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth.”

“Honestly I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people,” she reportedly said. “Because most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour. Your entire existence is drenched in racism ... Come see me when you realise that racism isn’t learned, it’s inherited and consciously or unconsciously passed down through privilege.”

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Miss Bergdorf, who was born a boy called Ian, works as a DJ and trans activist in addition to her modelling. She began living as a woman at the age of 18 but was prescribed hormones by a doctor only four years ago.

The London-raised campaigner recently spoke of how she hopes to play a part in the changing face of the beauty industry.

“To be the first trans woman in a L’Oreal Paris UK campaign feels amazing, and also kind of crazy,” she told Vogue Magazine.

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