She's 32 and a chromosome too. Katie Meade with Down's Syndrome (trisomy 21) has nevertheless become the muse of the last campaign of the US brand of Beauty & Pin-Ups hair products. On the posters, she poses radiant and sparkling with a Fearless clamor T-shirt (not even afraid), named after the new hair mask for hair in distress.

The canons of beauty

If the brand Dove was already known for its pubs displaying "normal" women, in other words with very different sizes and shapes of each other, it is the very first time that a young woman with Down's syndrome is chosen as muse of a beauty brand . Beauty & Pin-Ups thus crosses a new line in how to show the beauty of women .

Katie Meade, militant muse

A good com 'operation? Without a doubt. But also " an obvious " for the brand that affirms in its release on the choice of its muse: "When we hear the word courage, we think of Katie. "The young woman, it is true, overcome heart surgery, participated in the Paralympic Games and is spokesman for Best Buddies International, an association that wants to get out of social isolation, physical and economic people with mental disabilities . At the opening of the 2003 Paralympic Games ceremony, she also launched, without any shyness, the group U2 (although she admits a certain emotion) ... In other words, this Katie, we have not finished hearing talk about her.