Glamorous handless model becomes overnight celebrity after posing in bra for disability awareness advert
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 2:05 PM on 20th October 2010
Blonde ambition: Tanja Kiewitz models in a plunging black bra for CAP48's advertising campaign
Smiling directly at the camera, glamorous 35-year old Tanja Kiewitz, posed for the shoot in a plunging black bra which adorned an advert which read: 'look me in the eyes... I said the eyes'.
The shoot formed part of a newspaper advertising campaign by CAP48, a non-profit organisation which works to highlight disability issues across France and Belgium.
The advert has been so successful that the charity has raised more than €4million from an annual telethon – 10 per cent more than the previous year.
According to the newspaper Global Post Kiewitz has become an overnight star ever since the photograph appeared late last month with magazines and TV crews all across Europe clambering to interview the graphic designer.
'There’s been a huge reaction,' Kiewitz told the newspaper.
'I’ve been besieged on Facebook. Mostly the reactions have been great, really positive feedback. I’ve got journalists from around the world calling; it’s been a bit crazy.'
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It is interesting for me to read through comments of people's reaction to Tanja's photo. It gives me a glimpse of what people probably think of Kyla when they see her. Some people are extremely rude and say that this is distasteful or repulsive. Some people totally support Tanja and say they wish they had as much courage as she does. These people who are saying they don't want to look at her because of her disability should be thankful they themselves do not have a disability. What a shallow human being to say something like that about someone. I was reading through the comments and Kelly Knox (see my early posts about Kelly - she is a British model who was born with one hand) went on there and posted her comments, basically defending Tanja and supporting her. Good job Kelly. BTW, Kelly's comments on prosthetics, I don't agree with. I think that the future of prosthetics are very promising (because of the war - the doctors in Seattle told us this) and therefore I do not think they are "fake, ugly and their purpose is to hide the disability." If a prosthetic can aid someone in their everyday life and help make tasks easier, then I am all for them.
The reason I found this article is because my babysitter's boyfriend said he was watching the Victoria's Secret fashion show on tv and saw a model on there with only one arm and he told my Husband he was like "that girl has a nub too!" My Husband calls Kyla's arm her "nub." I don't like the term, but that's what he uses. I prefer "Little Arm." (Every parent of a child with a little arm has their own name for their arms. The two girls up in Seattle's arms are referred to as "Armie" and "Closed Hand," -- it's just something that you do.) My Husband was like "oh, ya, that's Kelly Knox..." So I went online to find photos. I haven't actually found them yet, because I can't really do searches on VS models here at work, but I did find this. I'm wondering if it was actually Kelly Knox he saw or Tanja. I will have to do more searching at home, but in the meantime, thought I would post this.
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