Gisele Bundchen Lingerie Campaign Criticized by Brazilian Officials (Video)

Government reps are calling for the TV ads to be pulled.

Gisele Bundchen’s very successful modeling career has usually made her home country proud, but a new lingerie campaign has Brazilian government officials turning on her.

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Bundchen’s new lingerie campaign for the Brazilian label, Hope, has her using her formidable assets and feminine wiles to get her get out of trouble with her husband for some mischief, such as maxing out his credit card and crashing his car, according to The Guardian.

The commercial’s voiceover says, “You’re a Brazilian woman – use your charm.”

That has officials from Brazil’s women’s secretariat requesting that the promos be pulled from television. In a statement, the officials say the advertisement contains “discriminatory content against women” in encouraging them to use their “charm” to “lessen possible reactions from their partners.” It states the commercial violates two articles of the Brazilian constitution.

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In response, the lingerie company’s director, Sandra Chayo, says, "Gisele can testify that all of the situations shown in the campaign are jokes about daily life.”

“In no way should they be taken as being depreciative of the feminine figure. It would be absurd for us, who make a living off the preferences of women, to do anything to devalue our main consumer."

What do you think? Watch one of the commercials below.

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Airbrushed Julia Roberts' L'Oréal U.K. Ad Campaign Banned

Advertising watchdog upholds complaints by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson that images were overly airbrushed.

LONDON -- The U.K.'s advertising Standards Authority has pulled two ads featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington for being overly-airbrushed, according to The Guardian.

Liberal Democrat member of parliament Jo Swinson, who has waged a long-running campaign against "overly perfected and unrealistic images" of women in adverts, lodged complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority about the magazine campaigns for L'Oréal-owned brands Lancôme and Maybelline.

The ASA ruled that both ads breached the advertising standards code for exaggeration and being misleading and banned them from future publication.

L'Oréal's two-page ad featuring Roberts, who is the face of Lancôme, promoted a foundation called Teint Miracle, which it claims creates a "natural light" that emanates from beautiful skin. It was shot by renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino.

The ad for Maybelline featured Turlington promoting a foundation called The Eraser, which is claimed to be an "anti-ageing" product. In the ad, parts of Turlington's face are shown covered by the foundation while other parts are not, in order to show the effects of the product.

Swinson complained that images of both celebrities had been digitally manipulated and were "not representative of the results the product could achieve."

Roberts recently starred with Tom Hanks in  Larry Crowne.

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