Too Liberal for France? The controversy surrounding minister's appearance on Playboy cover

French minister Marlene Schiappa has come under fire after appearing on the front cover of Playboy magazine alongside a 12-page interview on women’s and LGBT rights. Politicians, such as France’s prime minister Elisabeth Borne, criticised her appearance and said it wasn’t appropriate The latest scandal to rattle the French government is a Playboy front cover starring Emmanuel Macron’s top minister. The magazine’s French edition will feature Marlene Schiappa, a self-described “sapiosexual,” completely dressed and with a 12-page interview on abortion, women’s rights, and LGBT rights, according to AFP. French minister on Playboy cover According to Le Parisien newspaper, which first reported the story, Schiappa, a 40-year-old feminist author who was plucked from obscurity by President Emmanuel Macron in 2017, was photographed for the cover wearing a long white, one-shoulder dress in one image and a voluminous bow-tied white dress in another, under the headline “A liberated minister.” Invité ce matin sur Europe1 le Ministre de l’intérieur @GDarmanin apporte son soutien à @MarleneSchiappa sur sa Une Une de #playboy.