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10 Most Beautiful Kids In The World ALL GROWN UP

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Two little girls got crowned “the most beautiful kid in the world” — and the internet never let either of them forget it.

Long before Instagram made child fame a full-time career path, a handful of kids were already carrying titles most adults never earn: the world’s most beautiful girl, the world’s most beautiful little girl, take your pick of tabloid superlative. Russia’s Kristina Pimenova and France’s Thylane Blondeau were both signed by major agencies before they’d lost their baby teeth, both landed on the covers of real fashion magazines as toddlers, and both spent their childhoods fielding a level of scrutiny most working models don’t see until their twenties.

• Kristina Pimenova signed with the President Kids agency before age 4 and, by 2014, outlets including Women Daily were calling her “the most beautiful girl in the world.”
• Before turning 12, Pimenova had worked for Armani, Benetton, Burberry and Roberto Cavalli, and landed the cover of Vogue Kids in April 2015.
• Thylane Blondeau walked her first runway for Jean Paul Gaultier at age 4 and, around 2006-2007, Vogue Enfants dubbed her “the most beautiful little girl in the world.”

The Making of a Child Modeling Star

Pimenova’s résumé reads like a fashion house scouting report rather than a childhood. Her parents — Russian footballer Ruslan Pimenov and model Glikeriya Shirokova — put her in front of a camera before she turned 4, and by the time she was still in elementary school she’d already worked runways and campaigns for Armani, Benetton, Burberry and Roberto Cavalli. The April 2015 Vogue Kids cover arrived before her 12th birthday, cementing a résumé most adult models spend a decade building.

Blondeau’s path started the same way, just with a different national football pedigree behind it. Born in 2001 to French footballer Patrick Blondeau and TV presenter Véronika Loubry, she made her runway debut for Jean Paul Gaultier at age 4. Vogue Enfants handed her the “most beautiful little girl in the world” tag around 2006-2007, and from there the French press treated her like a genuine industry figure rather than a novelty.

The Vogue Paris Controversy

Blondeau’s fame took a sharper turn at age 10, when Vogue Paris put her in heavy makeup and adult couture for a supplement shoot. The images set off an international media argument over how young is too young to style a child like a grown woman for a fashion magazine — the kind of debate that follows child modeling around the industry to this day.

Dubbed “the most beautiful little girl in the world” as a toddler, Thylane Blondeau was starring in international magazine controversies by age 10 — and signed to IMG Models before she was out of her teens.

Life After the Headlines

Both girls turned the early attention into actual careers rather than letting it fade with childhood. Pimenova relocated to California to push into acting and international high-fashion modeling, moving past the toddler-prodigy framing that made her famous in the first place. Readers who followed the similar arc of another famous modeling-adjacent kid can see the same pattern play out in Is Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Ready To Delve Into The Modeling Industry?.

Blondeau’s transition went further and faster. By mid-2017 she’d signed with IMG Models, one of the industry’s biggest agencies, made her film acting debut in “Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues” (2015), and walked runway for Dolce & Gabbana as a teenager — proof the Vogue Paris firestorm didn’t derail her career the way critics predicted it might. The broader question of which child-to-adult transitions in modeling actually stick gets a fuller answer in What The Winners Of America’s Next Top Model Look Like Today.

Actual Benefits of Noble Titles

Neither girl’s early “most beautiful” crown guaranteed staying power on its own — that came from the agencies and campaigns that followed. Pimenova’s Armani-to-Cavalli client list and Blondeau’s IMG contract are the real receipts, the kind that separate a viral toddler photo from an actual fashion career built to survive past age 12.

Blondeau turned 16 in 2017 with a Dolce & Gabbana runway credit and a film role already behind her — not bad for a kid who was still catching heat over a magazine shoot six years earlier.