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Deborah Cole

‘Fix that little spot’: Danish PM hits back at unsolicited beauty tip from cosmetic surgeon

Mette Frederiksen with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv
Mette Frederiksen with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday. She says a cosmetic surgeon got in touch with her while she was away offering to help her with her appearance. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

Sick of getting unsolicited beauty tips on social media, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, rebuffed a male cosmetic surgeon’s offer to “fix” her and advised women in similar situations to embrace self-acceptance.

Frederiksen, a Social Democrat and Denmark’s second female prime minister, posted on Instagram that she had just returned from a trip to Ukraine, where she was subjected to air raid sirens, when she found a message proposing some help with her appearance.

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