Colombian model sparks outrage for saying eating chicken can turn you gay

39-year-old Paris was caught on camera by CaracolTV saying how boys consuming poultry that has been injected with female hormones to speed up growth risked turning homosexual, the New York Daily News reported.

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She said that there were little girls, "aged seven, eight, nine and 10", who were starting to go through puberty due to eating chicken injected with the hormones.

Then she added, "because of that, the boys that are eating [that kind of] chicken, because they are injecting female hormones, they are starting to turn into homosexuals."

Paris, who is also a DJ, made her comments as she was meeting and greeting fans at a store in the South American country's capital of Bogota.