Who is Ines Rau, the girlfriend of the champion Mbappé

The disappointment for the World Cup in Qatar lost to Argentina is still hot, but the rumors about the French player Kylian Mbappespearhead of the Paris Saint-Germain and his national team, are not just about the pitch. If in professional life next to him there are ten other players of the Parisian team, in sentimental life it is rumored that next to him there is transgender model Ines Rau. «I finally found a guy who accepts me for who I am», declared the supermodel a Ellebut without confirming the name of the partner.

What do we know about Ines Rau

Ines Rau is French, born in Nancy on March 17, 1990 and lives in Paris for her work as a top model. The model, of North African origins, he is eight years older than the footballerborn in Paris on December 20, 1998. She underwent sex reassignment surgery when she was only 16 years old, but revealed it while his career was already underway, almost four years later. Some sources reveal that Ines Rau’s decision was inspired by the story of Tula, one of the first models to declare her transition. The French model has been the face of important editorial campaigns for Vogue but also advertising for brands such as Balmain and L’Oréal. Among Ines Rau’s primates there is also that of having been the first transsexual model to appear on the pages of Playboy. In her first service, dating back to 2014, she participated in a campaign in support of sexual diversity. However, the real success in the magazine comes in 2017, when Ines Rau conquers the central pages of Playboy and becomes the first playmate openly trans.

The meeting with Mbappé

The French couple were paparazzi for the first time at Cannes Film Festival in 2022, which we both attended as guests. The photographers had already immortalized them in intimate attitudes on that occasion. Then the model was seen on the beach in the arms of the champion and the paparazzi had been following the couple all summer. But since then no confirmation to formalize the couple. We only know that, after those photos, in a magazine interview she, Rau had declared, without giving any names: «I finally found a guy who accepts me for who I am».

Between reasons for silence of the alleged couple there could be the delicate ground on which both move: Ines Rau is proud of her transition, in a world that is still striving to obtain the right recognition for those who decide for this choice, that of fashion. In the context of football surrounding Mbappé, however, there is still a long way to go.