Is it true that a man in heels from a viral video is a “NATO senior officer”?

In June 2024, a viral video became a viral in social networks, which captures a man in high -heeled shoes. The signature claimed that this is a high -ranking military of the structures of the North Atlantic Alliance. We figured out who is actually shown on the video.

The author of the 27-second video shot a man leaving the car, who is dressed in a white shirt, a black tie, a gray skirt and a stiletto shoes. Having gone a few meters to the side, a person turns towards the camera, and then defile and poses. At this time, laughter is heard behind the frame.

On June 14, this video with the signature "Senior Officer of NATO" was published by large Telegram channels Voblya (146,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and "Sheikh Tamir"(126 000). With similar comments, the video was posted on their pages by users Facebook, X and other social networks.

Taking advantage of the reverse search tool from Google, it was “verified” that a man from a viral video is a frequent hero of posts in social networks. Some users Use videos with his participation in the creation of humorous content, others They are outraged "The new fashion for men who came to Europe," others regretthat "lost the kid." They talk about this man and the media, including the Estonian edition Postimees And the Latvian portal Mixer.

Many of these publications indicate the name of a man in heels - Mark Brian. He has quite popular profiles in Instagram (595,000 subscribers) and Tiktok (215,000 subscribers). On the vast majority of photos and videos, it is also captured in skirts and women's shoes. It was in Tiktock Brine in July 2023 Published The video that Internet users distribute with the signature about the "senior officer of NATO." There is no offshore laughter in the video.

However, the blogger is in no way connected with the North Atlantic Alliance. Over the past few years, Brian has become a hero of large articles in several glossy publications, for example in German Vogue and Australian Harper’s Bazaar, and in communication with journalists revealed the main facts of his biography.

Brian is 64 years old. He grew up in Texas, and heels began to wear during his studies at college. “At that time I met a girl who was the same height as I, but loved to wear high heels, so I was always a little lower. Once after studying, we went home together, watched the TV, ate and at some point began to dance. It was funny when she told me: "Why don't you wear high heels if you really want to be higher?" No sooner said than done. Oddly enough, we had the same size of shoes. When I first tried on high -heeled shoes, I liked how I felt. But for many reasons, including because of my work, for many years I no longer thought about it, ”Brian recalls.

Subsequently, he built a career in the field of robotics and, in his own words, spent more than 30 years "in the world of costumes and ties." In 2010, Brian (as Vogue notes, “for love”) moved to Germany. Five years later, the American, finding the full support of the current wife, decided to put on the work of heels. “My colleagues joked:" Once Mark will put on a dress. " They did not know that I would really do it in 2018, ” - tells Brian in a conversation with the British tabloid The Mirror (however, later he will still give preference to skirts). It will pass for several years - and the engineer will become a star of social networks, begin to act for glossy magazines and even will take part In Parisian Fashion Week.

“The vast majority of the people I meet are sure that I am gay, and are very annoyed when I call myself a heterosexual cisgender man. <...> This does not fit into the form to which they want to classify me, based on my appearance. The fact that a man likes to wear women's clothing does not mean that he is necessarily homosexual or shemale is completely different things, ”Brian emphasizes (by the way, the father of three children).

Although in the spring of 2022 in an interview with Remix American magazine He saidthat he plans to retire and devote himself to modeling business, in Brian's profile on Linkedin indicatedthat he still lives in the German city of Kraleshaim and is engaged in robotics as a freelancer. “Verified” failed to find any information about the work of an engineer in NATO or army structures close to the Alliance. But at once, several publications say that Brian, in addition to the main work and filming for the blog, manages to train amateur teams in American football in Germany.

Thus, the video, which became a viral in June 2024 with the signature of “Senior NATO Officer”, actually published by the previous summer an American living in Germany and in no way connected with the North Atlantic alliance. This man gained fame in social networks due to the fact that he wears skirts and high -heeled shoes in combination with jackets, shirts and other objects of men's wardrobe.

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