Mom Gets Burned by Facebook for This Remake of Coppertone's Classic Ad

Did Jill White deserve to be banned?

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Facebook takes its no-nudity policy very seriously—so seriously that one mom found herself banned from the network for 24 hours after posting what she thought was an innocent remake of Coppertone's original tan-line-revealing ad from the 1950s.

During a trip to the beach, North Carolina photographer Jill White took a snapshot of her 2-year-old daughter's back—including, true to the sunscreen brand's famous imagery, a naked part of her daughter's butt—while one of her daughter's friend's played the part of swimsuit-yanking cocker spaniel.

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