Vogue Paris will be the first French magazine to feature a transgender model on the cover
- Valentina Sampaio from Brazil will grace the front page of the iconic publication
- She will feature in Vogue Paris' March edition which is released on February 23
- Sultry picture of Valentina Sampaio will run over the words 'Transgender Beauty'
- Vogue have described her as 'a femme fatale who happened to be born a boy'
Vogue Paris is to feature a transgender model on its cover calling her a 'femme fatale who happened to be born a boy.
Valentina Sampaio from Brazil will grace the front page of the iconic publication for its March edition, becoming the first transgender model to do so in a French magazine.
A sultry Sampaio, bathed in dark purple and blue light, appears over the words 'Transgender Beauty', with a subtitle reading 'How they are shaking up the world,' on the cover to appear on newsstands February 23.
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![Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio poses during an interview in Milan, Italy](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BBB3900000578-0-image-a-1_1487527711656.jpg)
Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio poses during an interview in Milan, Italy
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Vogue Paris is to become the first French magazine to feature a transgender model on its cover when Brazilian Valentina Sampaio (pictured) will grace the front page
![Valentina is all smiles ahead of her big reveal on the front page of Vogue Paris this month](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BB63600000578-0-image-a-5_1487527790770.jpg)
Valentina is all smiles ahead of her big reveal on the front page of Vogue Paris this month
![The Brazilian model walks through a leafy park in Milan](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BB62000000578-0-image-m-15_1487527863775.jpg)
![Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio poses during an interview in Milan on February 18, 2017](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BBCA600000578-0-image-a-16_1487527873784.jpg)
The Brazilian model walks through a leafy park in Milan (left) and poses for the camera (right)
![The magazine has called Valentina Sampaio the 'glam standard-bearer of a cause that is on the march'](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BB54100000578-0-image-a-9_1487527804202.jpg)
The magazine has called Valentina Sampaio the 'glam standard-bearer of a cause that is on the march'
Calling Sampaio the 'glam standard-bearer of a cause that is on the march', the French edition of Vogue describes the 22-year-old as a 'femme fatale' who happened to be born a boy.
Emmanuelle Alt, the magazine's editor-in-chief, said: 'Beyond her evident physical qualities and her sparkling personality, Sampaio embodies a long and painful fight against being perceived as a 'gender exile.'
She is the latest transgender person to make the headlines.
Caitlyn Jenner, a former male US decathlon star, made history by coming out with the June 2015 cover of Vanity Fair, prompting Glamour US magazine to name her woman of the year.
![Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BBC0900000578-0-image-m-17_1487527882414.jpg)
![Vogue describes the 22-year-old (pictured) as a 'femme fatale' who happened to be born a boy](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220065054/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/19/18/3D6BB20400000578-0-image-a-18_1487527889824.jpg)
Vogue describes the 22-year-old (pictured) as a 'femme fatale' who happened to be born a boy
'Vogue supports and chooses to celebrate' transgender people 'in a post-gender world,' Alt said.
'The day when a transsexual poses for a magazine cover and it will be no longer necessary to write an editorial on the subject, we will know that the fight has been won.'
She also paid homage to other transgender figures who have preceded Sampaio and Jenner such as Lea T, the muse of Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci.
In her editor's letter, she recalled the trauma endured by supermodel Caroline Cossey, who was an extra in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only and posed for Playboy that year before being outed by Britain's now-defunct News of the World tabloid in 1982.
In December, the US magazine National Geographic's cover story was titled Gender Revolution and featured Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old transgender girl.
Laverne Cox, who stars in the TV series Orange Is the New Black, was on the cover of Time magazine in June 2014.
Cosmetics group L'Oreal Paris has selected 24-year-old transgender model and actress Hari Nef to represent its latest foundation cream in a global ad campaign.
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