GOING VIRAL |Putative] Bikini photos of Croatian president, formerly Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy at NATO

InterAksyon.com; see also John Brown, 'Public Diplomacy Goes 'Pubic,'" Huffington Post (2007)

Photographs of bikini-clad Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic have gone viral on the Internet, first in Kenya then in India. Photo posted earlier was mistakenly identified as Kitarovic's.

MANILA - Photographs of bikini-clad Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic have gone viral on the Internet, first in Kenya then in India.

A video of the news said the Croatian president is married and has two children. 

According to Wikipedia, the 47-year-old Kitarovic was elected in 15 February 2015 as Croatia’s fourth president, the first female president, and the youngest at 46.

Born 29 April 1968, she was a member of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union party from 1993 to 2015 and one of three Croatian members of the Trilateral Commission. She had to resign both positions when she became president.

From 2011 to 2014, she served as Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy at NATO, the first woman ever to be appointed to the position.

She was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia from 2005 to 2008 in the Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I, and Croatia's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011.

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VIRAL: Croatian President's bikini photos impress (and fool) the Internet, gmanetwork

Published January 3, 2016 1:04pm

The new Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic might be from the conservative party, but she's not too conservative to wear a bikini at the beach—at least, that's what the Internet thought.

After #APECHottie Justin Trudeau set the bar for good-looking world leaders, photos of Grabar-Kitarovic frolicking in summer garments went viral on social media and she quickly earned the title "hottest president."

Circulating photo of "Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic at the beach"

Another viral post about President Grabar-Kitarovic's bikini body

Unfortunately, the bikini-clad blonde in the pictures is Coco Austin and not Grabar-Kitarovic. Austin is the wife of rapper and actor Ice-T (real name Tracy Lauren Marrow). The other woman, in blue swimwear, is an adult film star. 

The rumors are hard to dispel, given that in the president's presence, a man's trousers suddenly fell down. 

The Telegraph reports on a wardrobe malfunction in the presence of President Grabar-Kitarovic

This is a good reminder to think before you click! — AT, GMA News

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