Article 55B8E Vogue Portugal under fire for mental health cover in 'very bad taste'

Vogue Portugal under fire for mental health cover in 'very bad taste'

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Priya Elan
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Front of magazine's Madness' issue attacked as attempt to glamorise mental illness

Vogue Portugal has been criticised for insensitive treatment of mental health on one of its latest magazine covers.

The image - one of four covers created for its July/August Madness" issue - features model Simona Kirchnerova crouched in a bath flanked by two nurses, with one pouring water over her head. The cover has been criticised both for attempting to glamorise mental illness and for the use of the outdated term madness".

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