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Transsexual Model Poses As Michelle Obama On Candy Cover

Will there be a time when a black, trans woman is sworn in as president? That’s the question the newest issue of Candy magazine hopes to explore through their latest provocative cover, which features transsexual model Connie Fleming styled by Brad Goreski to look like First Lady Michelle Obama in a tweedy dress and pearls in one shot, and a white peplum number with matching chunky necklace in another.

The glossy bills itself as “the first transversal style magazine” and has made headlines in the past for boundary-pushing spreads like James Franco in drag, male models dressed as Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington, a gender-bending (and scantily clad) Andrej Pejic.

Publisher Luis Venegas talked to Dazed Digital about the thought behind “The Candydate”, as the clever coverline reads:

“I especially love the cover story, which for the first time isn’t a super-popular star, but a fabulous, beautiful black transwoman channeling a politician who looks pretty much like Michelle Obama. I remember back in early 2007 when the Democratic Party’s nominees were narrowed down between two ‘controversial’ stereotypes never before seen for presidency: a black man, Barack Obama; and a woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton. At that time, I thought, ‘when will the time come when these archaic walls break down and the White House will be occupied by, for example, a black, transsexual woman?’”

What do you think of the concept? Awesome? Offensive? Thought-provoking?


[Dazed Digital]



  • Van Grungy

    Prettier than the original

  • Anonymous

    you are a jerk. Laura wasn’t winning any beauty contests either but we never harped on

  • Anonymous

    i am not offended. it’s “art”.

  • Anonymous

    Van would do her, but she wouldn’t do Van.

  • Anonymous

    She’s lighter-skinned than the First Lady, and doesn’t have the First Lady’s weird eyebrows.

    When wil the White House will be occupied by a black transsexual woman? Before it’s occupied by Mitt Romney.

  • Van Grungy

    Are you really still Bush deranged?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Remembering history is now being “deranged” in the RWNJ universe.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    I like the concept but think it can be done better. As mentioned above, the eyebrows are all wrong. Michelle has distinctive eyebrows, which influence her expressions. Also, the hair looks sloppy… upper arms are a win, though. :-)

  • Anonymous

    That don’t look like Michelle Obama to me! Sorry for trying?

  • Anonymous

    Worst president ever, too bad you can’t scrub history clean.

    Bush’s Final Approval Rating: 22 Percent

    President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush’s final approval rating at 22 percent.

    Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.

    Mr. Bush’s final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing
    president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more
    than 70 years ago.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500160_162-4728399.html

  • Anonymous

    Does not resembles Michelle Obama, and Michelle Obama has broader hips . She resembles the darker version of Coulter

  • Anonymous

    They want everyone to pretend 8 years of Bush never happened.

  • lola

    Ridiculous. Does not look like Michelle.

  • Anonymous

    Not even close.

  • Anonymous

    45 seconds of fame.

  • Windolyn Mosely

    This person looks nothing like Michele

  • Anonymous

    What a proud day in America! Gay Marines getting engaged in front of the White House Christmas tree and transsexuals dressing up as the first lady of our country and getting put on magazine covers! Wheeeeeee!

  • Anonymous

    Talk about a dopleganger. Wow!

  • America the land of the stupid

    Has this country gone f$$$ing crazy. How dare you disrespect our First Lady in such a derogatory manner. I tell you one thing if I had my way you all would be in prison for treason.

  • BigBlackandProud

    Nasty and Ugly as hell too! ONLY women should dress like women!

  • Anonymous

    How is this derogatory?

  • Anonymous

    Man, it must suck to be you. What are you going to do when there’s no one left who shares your hate?

  • Jerry S.

    How about that? He looks just like him!

  • Anonymous

    Biologically correct.

  • Anonymous

    women are listening to you.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t get the point, do you?

  • Anonymous

    from the perspective of a bigot.

  • Van Grungy

    Yes, yes, we all know about the Lame Stream Media being completely in the Democratic Party camp.

    Not to mention all the Democrat controlled Looniversities

  • Van Grungy

    Everything was fine until Pelosi and Reid got in.

    Are you one of those ignorant people that think the President is a King?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Vickers/832903587 Jason Vickers

    twins actually.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Vickers/832903587 Jason Vickers

    obama should be in prison for treason. fact

  • http://twitter.com/jaye_greene Jay Greene

    Good to see Carl Lewis is still working

  • Sonia

    Looks nothing like the First Lady!

  • http://www.facebook.com/mnm4334 Matthew William Millett

    This is insulting to the first lady. I do not even support the president but I do feel sad that she is being impersonated by a tranny, There also will never be a time when a black man having surgery to become a woman will become president.

  • goonin!!!

    Michelles gonna be pissed if she ever happens to come across this photo

  • Tellin the Truth

    Michelle is the real tranny.

  • anonymous003

    Epic Fail….smh It’s disrespectful too.

  • anonymous003

    Really? If we throw your mom’s pic in the mix, they’d probably look like triplets huh. Move along Mittens.

  • anonymous003

    I agree!

  • anonymous003

    totally unrelated…lol get over it already mittens

  • anonymous003

    Don’t feel bad, We all know u were the one who posed for this pic. LMAO

  • http://www.facebook.com/gia.rengaw Gia Rengaw

    I was mesmerized by the Photoshop fail on the fingernails.

    Short left hand, long right hand.

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