CNN: [2] Finland’s Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, who became the world’s youngest Prime Minister when she took office aged 34 last year, posed for the October issue of Trendi magazine wearing a blazer, with no shirt underneath.
[3] Mari Paalosalo-Jussinmäki, director of women’s media at A-lehdet magazine group — publisher of Trendi — told CNN that there was an “enormous” backlash against the photoshoot and cover story in Finland. She said the magazine received fierce criticism on social media soon after it was released on October 9.
[4] “If you had to generalize it, it will be men saying it was wrong, and women saying it was fabulous,” Paalosalo-Jussinmäki said. “It was a little bit surprising,” she said, adding: “We’ve had that sort of photo before, obviously, in a woman’s glossy fashion magazine: we have portrayed women in blazers with nothing underneath for years and years, with famous people, and they had never created any response like this.”
[5] Paalosalo-Jussinmäki told CNN that many critics of the cover story seemed upset that the Prime Minister had featured in a women’s lifestyle magazine, and some were angry that she did so as the government deals with the coronavirus pandemic.