“C’est en réalité Jean-Michel”: une influenceuse américaine affirme avec insistance que Brigitte Macron est un homme
Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron are taking multiple steps to put an end to rumors that the French First Lady is transgender. However, 36-year-old American conservative influencer Candace Owens continues to repeat in the United States that Brigitte was once Jean-Michel, her older brother. This claim has recently taken on grotesque and ridiculous proportions. Here's an update on the situation.
In her recent public appearances, Brigitte Macron has appeared rather stressed. Are these recent tensions linked to the affair? We particularly remember that famous slap to the face, at the top of the airplane stairs, last May, when the Macrons had just landed for an official state visit to Vietnam. The French First Lady has been at the center of a media storm for several years that shows no signs of abating.
An influencer who is a fan of conspiracy theories
Candace Owens, an American far-right influencer followed by millions of people on X and YouTube, spreads numerous conspiracy theories. After denying the moon landings and the coronavirus, she is now attacking Brigitte Macron.
In a podcast series of no fewer than eight episodes, the influencer reveals, according to her, the only true story of the French president's wife. The title "Becoming Brigitte" is quite revealing. According to Candace Owens, there is ample evidence to irrefutably demonstrate one thing: "Brigitte Macron was born a man."
A student who falls in love with his teacher
The first lady was born Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux on April 13, 1953, in Amiens. She was the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a chocolate shop, but Brigitte preferred to spend time immersed in her books and, a few years later, became a French, Latin, and drama teacher. In her twenties, she married banker André-Louis Auzière. Together, they had three children: Sébastien, Laurence, and Tiphaine. However, in 2006, they divorced, and a year later, she married Emmanuel Macron, who was twenty-five years her junior.
The way Brigitte met the president has already made many French people blush. It was at the Lycée la Providence in Amiens, during a drama class where 15-year-old Emmanuel was rehearsing for the school play. It was love at first sight, despite Brigitte's attempts to push her feelings away. They became close, and have been married for almost thirty years since. According to Candace Owens, Emmanuel is aware that his "wife" was once a "man."
“Brigitte is actually Jean-Michel”
Although the first public traces of this rumor date back to an unknown Spanish blogger in 2017, the whole uproar only really took shape in 2021. At that point, the (self-proclaimed) medium Amandine Roy and the independent journalist Natacha Rey claimed that there was no point beating around the bush. They declared in a long video that Brigitte Macron never existed, and that it was in fact “her older brother” Jean-Michel, born in 1945.
He is said to have initially lived for about 30 years as a man. In an attempt to conceal his transition, he then allegedly invented the story of his fictional sister, “Brigitte.” The video immediately attracted 500,000 viewers, and the hashtag #JeanMichelTrogneux began trending in France. Far-right author Xavier Poussard later expanded on the rumor in 2023.
Brigitte allegedly “raped” Emmanuel
Candace Owens relies heavily on Poussard's work, using X, TikTok, and YouTube as a vehicle for her theory. She goes much further than her predecessors and even accuses Brigitte Macron of having "raped" Emmanuel during his school years and thus "molded" him into homosexuality. The influencer relies on numerous so-called physiological clues, such as Brigitte's jawline and shoulders, which she considers very masculine.
In a recent TikTok video, Owens even used footage from the Macrons' state visit to the UK in early July, focusing on Macron's "huge hands." "That's the one thing you can't change, right?" she says. "You can't just say, 'I'm going to get new feet or new hands,' because that would probably make your feet and hands completely dysfunctional. But look at the size of that right hand. That's a very big hand for a... lady."
Few photos from my youth
What also seems to annoy Candace Owens is that the French First Lady doesn't seem to have a past, that is, few photos of her youth: "Brigitte Macron didn't exist for the first thirty years of her life," the influencer says in her podcast.
“There is no evidence that 'this human being' lived for 30 years. If someone said that about me, I would immediately show all my childhood photos. And let's not forget that Brigitte also has three children: you obviously show photos of yourself when you're pregnant. But she doesn't do any of that.”
Trump reportedly asked him to stop
According to Candace Owens, Brigitte does indeed have three children, but at the time, she was the biological father. And so, over the past few weeks and months, she has continued unabated, sometimes losing herself in her conspiracies. At one point, she refers to the Macrons as members of the same family, implying incest.
Donald Trump himself reportedly asked her to stop last February. Meanwhile, she's even selling T-shirts and sweatshirts featuring Brigitte's image on Time's famous "Person of the Year" cover, as well as caps emblazoned with "#FreeEmmanuel."
Commentaires (9)
Elle parait bcp plus proche de 80 (nee en 1945) ans que 72 ans (nee en 1953) pour sure mais les gens agent pas de la meme facon...
Une chose est sure: Candace Owens ne mettra pas les pieds en Europe de sitot...
eh ! bien alors ? cela ne nous regarde.....pas.....Mentir pour avoir des vues
Quand le click devient de l'argent tout est permis. Qu'elle ou qu'il soit (selon), c'est quoi le probleme? A part vouloir me faire clicker sur ton lien comme des millions de personne stupides pour t'enrichir dadvantage et les sites qui relaient l'info. Vraiment le business numérique à de beautiful jours dans ce nouvel ordre mondial. L"homo stupdentis est déjà là. Passons au prochain descendant l'homo sapiens
Je pense qu'il faudrait bien se renseigner avant de publier du n'importe quoi. Ça c'est inexact, comment un homme peut accoucher trois fois de suite avec des enfants (Enfants : Tiphaine Auzière, Sébastien Auzière, Laurence Auzière-Jourdan).
Il faudrait que l'État du Sénégal met des lois strictes pour des publications infondées qui vont à l'encontre de la vie privée d'une personne
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Werante khoukhane tekki Toubay !
On se fout de Brigitte et son mari nous on veut du travail et de l'argent pour donner une bonne éducation à nos enfants rekk......
Un peu de jugeote : cette dame a été mariée et a des enfants maintenant expliquez moi comment un homme peut accoucher. Relayer de la bêtise je ne comprends pas l'intérêt. Et même su c'etait un homme en quoi cela nous regarde, il faut apprendre a s'occuper de ses oignons.
Et ca qu'ils veulent vendre au monde : leur déchéance avec leurs histoires lgbtq ! Au diable!😡
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