{"id":14967,"date":"2017-10-23T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2017-10-23T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:30:50","slug":"meet-ines-rau-playboys-first-transgender-cover-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/meet-ines-rau-playboys-first-transgender-cover-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ines Rau: Playboy&#8217;s first transgender cover star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the legacy that Hugh Hefner left behind him, there are those who do not believe he was a sexual liberator, but a manipulator. Their image may be seedy and outdated, but Playboy&#8217;s latest move will dispel any haters that think the magazine isn&#8217;t progressive.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Playboy\/status\/921155850269536256<\/p>\n<p>Transgender model Ines Rau has been announced as the first ever transgender Playboy cover star.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos of the French model, hand picked by Cooper Hefner himself.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Babm7B1gsZt\/?hl=en&#038;taken-by=supa_ines<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BXr_Mx5AQK9\/?taken-by=supa_ines<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BWKkQSigPQR\/?taken-by=supa_ines<\/p>\n<p>Having transgender models on the pages of the magazine is nothing new for the 64 year old magazine, but Ines will be the first playmate to grace the iconic cover.<\/p>\n<p>How will this news go down with Playboy readers? We&#8217;ll have to see. At its peak, Playboy saw 7.2 million readers a month, now with only 500,000, it may be at risk of pushing away its audience. But honestly, if they hadn&#8217;t said anything, we wouldn&#8217;t have known Ines was transgender anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Written: Michael Ward\u00a0 Subbed: Charlotte Racher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the legacy that Hugh Hefner left behind him, there are those who do not believe he was a sexual liberator, but a manipulator. Their image may be seedy and outdated, but Playboy&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,93,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-news","category-worldnews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}