French President’s wife Brigitte Macron to provide evidence she is a woman after Candace Owens claims

Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, is planning to provide photographic evidence to prove she’s a woman to a court in the US.

The lawyer for the French leader and his wife, Brigitte, said they will present the photographs in support of their defamation case against right-wing influencer Candace Owens.

The defamation suits, launched in July, accuse Owens of propagating “outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions” that fuelled a lie-filled “campaign of global humiliation” and “relentless bullying”.

Speaking on the BBC’s Fame Under Fire podcast, lead counsel Tom Clare said the couple were ready to prove “generically and specifically” how Owens’ claims are false. Without revealing further details, he said lawyers will rely on “expert testimony” that “will be scientific in nature”.

The lawyer was asked if the photographs would show Mrs Macron when she was pregnant, but he refused to provide further details and added the images would be presented in court, according to the BBC.

Mr Clare said Owen’s comments were “extremely upsetting” to the Macrons: “It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself, to put this type of proof forward,” he said.

However, Mrs Macron is willing to “subject herself to [this process] in a very public way” in order to “do what it takes to set the record straight”.

Mr Clare added that he was aware the claims had been a ‘distraction’ to the French leader, adding: “I don’t want to suggest that it somehow has thrown him off his game”.

“He’s not immune from that because he’s the president of a country,” he added.