Claudia Conway, the 18-year-old daughter of former President Donald Trump’s White Home counselor Kellyanne Conway and legal professional George Conway (who’re going via a divorce), has develop into a Playboy bunny—properly, in a really 2023 means.
Because the controversial model continues its efforts to modernize itself, Playboy has just lately relaunched its magazine—this time, digitally—simply months after instituting a subscription program for content material creators à la Solely Followers on its website. Conway has develop into one of many first ones—and a very talked-about one, at that.
“Claudia Conway is considered one of many ladies who’ve discovered freedom, autonomy, and main monetary success on our creator platform,” Playboy mentioned in a statement to a number of shops, together with the New York Publish and Newsweek. “We welcome her and assist her selections.”
“Once I was 15-16, I used to be exploited by the media, preyed upon, and was compelled into portraying myself as one thing I wasn’t,” Conway wrote of her new gig on Twitter. “My physique was taken from me. Now, as a younger grownup, I’m aiming to reclaim my womanhood and femininity in a means that’s actually mine. I’m placing myself on the market in a means that’s MY OWN and nobody else’s.”
“I consider in writing your individual narrative, like I’ve mentioned up to now, and taking again what was as soon as unjustly taken from you,” she added. “Don’t let somebody capitalize off of your vulnerabilities— reclaim them.”
It appears an odd option to accomplice with Playboy—an empire constructed from capitalizing off girls’s vulnerabilities—however hey, she’s younger! And albeit, regardless of who her dad and mom are, Conway type of rocks? Take one take a look at her TikTok—which boasts 1.6 million followers—Instagram—a whopping 161,000 followers—or, Twitter—519,500 followers—and also you’ll instantly word her loud and proud statements on abortion, queerness, and gun management. Then, in the event you’re like me, reminiscences of returning residence with pink hair, a tattooed ass, and Alison Bechdel in hand following your freshman yr of school solely to be met by raised eyebrows and your grandmother’s tears will likely be summoned to thoughts.
You would possibly keep in mind Conway for her temporary run on American Idol, however I’ll eternally maintain her in excessive regard for dragging her parents to hell through social media again in 2020. Oh, and this interview by which she candidly mentioned rising up queer in a family that’s waffled on assist for LGBTQ+ folks and recalled Donald Trump asking her—then a literal youngster—whether or not she thought he had a shot at changing into president in 2015: “I used to be like, ‘I don’t know.’”
All the very best to you, Claudia!
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