Brigitte Macron has been forced to change her appearance and has seen her health “deteriorate” in response to baseless conspiracy theories that she is a man, her concerned daughter told court Tuesday at a trial for 10 suspects accused of spreading malicious rumors about the French first lady.

“She knows that her image could be taken and distorted,” Brigitte’s youngest daughter, Tiphaine Auzière, 41, said during the second day of proceedings while explaining how her mother is always careful about “her postures” and “her outfits” since the claims started circulating, French outlet Ouest France reported .

“She cannot ignore the horrors being said,” Auzière said, adding that the wife of President Emmanuel Macron “is constantly under attack” — and her grandchildren are now aware of the

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