Who Is Thylane Blondeau, Most Beautiful Girl in the World? Her Life Now

As the daughter of French soccer player Patrick Blondeau and actress-slash-presenter Véronika Loubry, Thylane Blondeau got into the game at a young age.

But instead of taking to the pitch, the native of Aix-en-Provence, France, who has a younger brother named Ayrton-Romeo Blondeau, was showing off her footwork on the runway, walking for Jean Paul Gaultier at the age of 4. By 5, she’d scored the title of “Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” from Vogue Enfants, a supplement of Vogue Paris highlighting luxe children’s fashions.

And soon she was making the proverbial roster for brands like Hugo Boss, Dolce & Gabbana, babylos and L’Oréal. 

Still, “When you’re small, you don’t really pay attention,” she later explained to the Telegraph. “People are like, ‘You know, you’re the most beautiful girl in the world’, and you’re like, ‘I’m not, I’m just playing with my iPad.'” 

Yet, following her first photo shoot with photographer Dani Brubaker at age 7, she continued to, uh, shoot her shot. 

And while some took issue with the then-10-year-old’s decidedly grown-up look in Vogue Paris (complete with heels, lipstick and couture clothes), the industry certainly didn’t issue her a red card.