Model Ondria Hardin can't seem to stay away from controversy: Her "African Queen" spread for Numéro has many accusing the mag of using blackface. {HuffPo} Can baring your lady parts make you more confident? The Large Labia Project thinks it will (yea, that's a thing). {The Cut} Shailene Woodley dyed her locks red for The Amazing Spiderman 2--guess who she's playing? {US Weekly} Kim Kardashian covers April's Cosmopolitan and tells the glossy about her growing empire. {Cosmo}
Did Vogue China violate its own health initiative by putting Ondria Hardin, who reportedly just turned 16, in the magazine?
Vogue's Health Initiative has proven to be more difficult to abide by than its editors may have thought. About one week ago, we called Vogue China out on possibly using an underage model in its August issue--two months after the Health Initiative and its ban on models under 16 was announced. The model Ondria Hardin's agent would not tell us her birthdate. But, today, Vogue UK confirms she was indeed 15 at the time.
