Looking at the covers of magazines, many people do not even suspect that a few years ago the beautiful models in the photo could well have been men. Just look at the list below of the 10 most successful transsexual models below to make sure such people do exist.
Andrey Pezhich.
Andrei Pejic is a Serbian-Australian model. Known in wider circles for his ability to perform in both women's and men's shows. Andrey is ranked 18th in the top 50 best male models and 98th in the top 100 sexiest women in the world according to models.com.
Lea T.
Brazilian model Lea T. is one of the most famous transgender models today.
Claudia charriez.
It's hard to believe that Claudia was born a man. Her past has not been a hindrance to her hugely successful career. Claudia won America's Next Top Transsexual Model in 2009.
Isis King (Isis king).
American model Isis King became the first transsexual model to appear in America's Next Top Model.
Florencia de la V.
Known in the past as Roberto Carlos Trinidad, this Argentinean model has become incredibly successful in her business. Among other things, she is also considered the first transsexual actress in the world.
Sirapassorn Attayakorn.
The Thai transsexual model won the Miss International Queen title in a 2011 beauty pageant.
Chamila Asanka.
Chamila is also a newly minted model from Sri Lanka.
Carolina "Tula" Cossi.
Caroline is an English model, also one of the most famous transvestite models in the world. She managed to star in one of the James Bond films and for Playboy magazine. Also on account of her autobiography "I Am A Woman", where the model talks about her experience of being a transsexual and actress.
Roberta Klose.
Brazilian model who managed to appear for the Brazilian publishing house of Playboy magazine. After that, she was named the most beautiful woman in Brazil.
Malika.
Indian Malika, who underwent 4 surgeries, became the first Indian woman to be selected for a transgender beauty pageant in Thailand in 2011.
This year is generous with a crop of transsexuals, which is only worth the one transformation of Kim Kardashian's stepfather Bruce Jenner into Caitlyn Jenner. However, there are many transsexuals, but there are much fewer celebrities. Today we will tell you about the famous transsexuals who made history.
Caitlyn Jenner
The former Olympic athlete, reality TV star and stepfather of the famous Kim Kardashian, after an official statement and gender reassignment surgery, turned from Bruce to Caitlin in 2015.
Laverne Cox
Laverna became famous for her filming in the popular American TV series "Orange is the New Black", in which she played the role of Sofia Barset. Laverna became the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Janet Mock
The former People magazine recruiter changed sex at 18 and publicly identified herself as a woman in Marie Claire magazine in 2011. She has since become a spokesperson for transgender rights through her memoir series, "Redefining Realness," published in the New York Times.
Andrey Pezhich
Andrei gained popularity as a male supermodel, who could show himself on both male and female clothes. In 2014, he changed his gender, and stated that from now on he wants to be perceived as a woman.
Caroline Kosey
British actress and model who auditioned for the role of Bond Girl for the twelfth 007 film "For Your Eyes Only" and was a Playboy magazine model in 1980.
Jenna Talakova
Canadian model, hitting the headlines of all famous publications and breaking all barriers. In 2012, she competed for legal admission to the Miss Universe Canada pageant. Well, at least she won the Miss Congeniality title.
Alexis Arquette
She was born into the famous acting family Arquette under the name Robert. Alexis has played supporting roles in several films, and her transition from man to woman was described in the 2007 film Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother.
Isis King
Isis starred in the 11th and 17th seasons of the reality show America's Next Top Model. She was the first female transgender to compete on the show, and became one of the most visible transsexuals on television.
Chaz Bono
The only child of Sonny and Cher (yes, that same Cher). Chaz (born Chastity) documented his transition from woman to man in the 2011 film Become Chaz.
Sylvia Rivera
An American transvestite, gay activist and transgender rights activist, Rivera was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. Sylvia has been active in helping transgender people in need, including homeless transvestites and black transsexuals.
Christine Jorgenson
Born George William Jr., Jorgenson fought in the US Army during World War II, and went through a series of gender reassignment surgeries in Denmark after her service.
Candy Darling
Candy was born a boy named James Lawrence Slattery. Candy Darling was an American transsexual actress who starred in the films "Flesh" (1968) and "Babi Riot" (1971), produced by Andy Warhol, and was also a muse for the rock band The Velvet Underground.
Carmen Carrera
Reality star, model and burlesque actress with stunning curves that any woman can envy.
Ian Harvey
Born Janet, Harvey is a transgender comedian who changed sex at 32. Harvey became famous for his work with Margaret Cho, with whom he toured and starred as a regular member of her off-Broadway comedy revue.
Lana Wachowski
He is one of the most successful film producers in the world (half of the duo formerly known as the Wachowski brothers). She helped create the highly successful Matrix franchise, as well as dozens of other famous films, including V for Vendetta and Cloud Atlas.
Lea Tee
Born as a boy named Leandro, in 2014 Lea was chosen as the face of the famous brand Redken, which produces professional hair cosmetics. This made her the first transsexual model to be the face of an international cosmetics brand.
Raffi Friedman-Gurspan
He is the first transgender person to be recruited to the White House. Raffi was appointed by Barack Obama in 2015 to carry out outreach duties and help recruit directors.
Nadia Almada
Born Jorge Leodoro, Almada is a British reality TV star who became the first transgender to win the fifth season of Big Brother in 2004.
Coxinel
Born Jacques Charles Dufresnois, she adopted the stage name Coccinelle (French for "ladybug") before entering show business. In 1953, she rose to fame as a transgender dancer performing at the Chez Madame Arthur art cafe. She was the first public advocate of sexual rights in Europe, where she was a national celebrity and famous club singer.
Balian Bushbaum
Yvonne Bushbaum was once an Olympic pole vaulter from Germany. In 2007, Yvonne announced her retirement from the big sport and began preparations for gender reassignment, in order to later become a man named Balian. Balian took part in the German version of Dancing with the Stars.
Loiza Lamers
Aside from her irresistible looks, Loiza is the first transgender to win the 2015 Holland's Top Model. The main prize of the show was a contract with the modeling agency Touche Models for 50 thousand euros.
On November 6, singer Thomas Neuwirth, who was recognized by the whole world last year as Conchita Wurst, will be 27 years old. "The bearded woman" is not the only drag queen in pop history: there have been other troublemakers. ELLE is about artists who not only sang from a woman's face, but also looked like women.
The victory of the Austrian Thomas Neuwirth in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 did more for the unification of Europe than the bureaucrats from the European Union, many believe. For some, the bearded woman Conchita Wurst is an absurdity, shame and a reason for jokes, for others - a symbol of freedom and a walking art object. The respectable New York Times talks about the Conchita phenomenon, the BBC calls her the savior of European values, public figures and the UN Secretary General himself meet with Conchita, and the prestigious New York gallery MoMA collaborates with her in an art project.
Behind all this, it is forgotten that actually Thomas Neuwirth, who invented and put on the mask of Conchita Wurst, is primarily a singer. And not bad. The latest album of Neuwirth-Wurst is quite worthy pop music, which, alas, judging by the results of the charts, few people need outside of the artist's native Austria.
Verka Serdiuchka
Serduchka is about the same as Conchita Wurst, just the opposite. Openly gay Thomas Neuwirth appears as a cutesy diva and does it in earnest. Andrey Danilko, aka Verka Serduchka, is straight, he doesn't fight for anything, doesn't try to play a real woman, but instead plays the fool and has fun. Verka is a Slavic frenzy, drunken dances and almost Bollywood kitsch. Infinite energy and clear hits made Serduchka one of the main pop stars at home in Ukraine, and even more so in Russia, where not a single national concert, TV show or corporate party could do without "Everything will be fine" at the end of the 2000s. Recently, the artist Danilko has disappeared from the field of sight and hearing of the Russians, but he showed up in the Hollywood comedy "Spy". Apparently, a funny circus, which Serduchka and her (his?) Team are perfectly able to arrange, makes a strong impression on the Americans. In Verka's Instagram there is a short video from the party in honor of the premiere of "The Spy", where the audience in evening dresses enthusiastically listens to the artist's incendiary show, and the film's director Paul Feig even starts dancing.
The son of immigrants from Yemen, a native of Tel Aviv Yaron Cohen has not yet changed his passport. Officially, he / she is still Yaron, although he performed gender reassignment surgery 22 years ago. Having become a big star at home in Israel in the mid-nineties, Dana tried several times to get into the Eurovision Song Contest and in the end achieved her goal. Winning the competition in 1998 turned Dana into a truly international celebrity: Jean-Paul Gaultier made her costumes, she was named in the Spice Girls to replace the departed Jerry Halliwell. Dana reasonably refused the offer to become the fifth "peppercorn", realizing that her name was outrageous for the sake of. Then the wave subsided, and it turned out that the songs of the Israeli woman are of little interest outside of their native country. But the artist does not grumble - she performs at home, writes down new songs.
Roo Paul Andrew Charles, known simply as Roo Paul, is the world's most commercially successful drag queen. The two-meter-tall San Diego native sang in a punk band, danced in nightclubs, and was even dubbed the "Queen of Manhattan" before becoming a superstar. Fame came to Ru Paul in the early nineties on the wave of fashion for dance club music and nostalgia for the bright seventies. He hosted radio shows, recorded pop hits, including Don "t Go Breakin" My Heart - a number sung with Elton John. Both the song itself and the video, in which the giant Ru Paul and the miniature Elton John were charmingly fooling around (playing on the clichés of mass culture from Grease to American Gothic), had great success in Russia as well. Paul starred in films (which is worth the cult travesty masterpiece "Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything", where the leading roles were played by the very brutal Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze), and a contract with MAC brought him no less than $ 22 million.
Now Ru Paul has become a real burlesque legend (his big fan, for example, the designer Jason Wu, who dresses Michelle Obama) and is mainly busy with his own TV show Ru Paul's Drag Race, which has stood for six seasons. - this is a kind of "Star Factory", only for those who want to make a career as a drag queen. Paul himself dresses up as a woman only for work, and in everyday life he prefers costumes and a complete lack of cosmetics.
Devine is still idolized by intellectuals who have a weakness for self-irony and thrash culture. Harris Glen Milstead, shamelessly calling himself Devine ("Divine"), was a sweet tooth, weighed 180 kilos, but did not bother about it at all. Eerie, excess makeup, short dresses - Devine was very convincing in the image of a vulgar fat woman of those who do not go into their pockets for words. She has been made a star of film and the counterculture in general by director John Waters, who has directed several classics with Devine such as Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. In the latter, she played two roles, male and female. It was not difficult for the nee Harris Glen Milstead to be a man - he confessed that in ordinary life he was "a real man."
In addition to cinema, Devine made an excellent musical career: four albums, club hits I "m So Beautiful, Shoot Your Shot. The pinnacle of success was the musical" Hairspray ": there Devine sang, danced, grimaced and was very convincing. Alas, a month after the premiere, the famous drag queen (who looked much older than his years in life) died in his sleep at the age of 42. Ahead of him was the role of his mother-in-law in the new series Married ... with Children (in the Russian box office, Happy Together) , the contract was already signed, but it did not work out. Almost twenty years later, a remake of "Hairspray" was released, in which Devine was replaced by John Travolta.
Changing gender is not about changing into a different style of clothing. This is a very serious question, the psychological aspect of which we will not approach today. We just suggest that you watch the TOP 10 transsexual men who changed their sex and became happy, famous and rich.
1. Balian Bushbaum.
Balian Bushbaum was born in 1980 as Yvonne Bushbaum. As a woman, he competed in pole vaulting and finished second in Germany. Despite this, in 2007 he refused to pursue his career due to injury. At the same time, he decided to change the gender. In 2008, Yvonne officially became Balian.
2. Buck Angel.
Transsexual director Buck Angel is a significant figure in the gay community. In 2007, he won the Adult Video News Award for Transsexual Television Presenter of the Year. In addition to his performing activities, he is also a lawyer, teacher and writer.
3. Lauren Cameron.
Lauren is an American activist photographer, author, and transgender. His work includes the creation of portraits and self-portraits of lesbian and transgender bodies. Lauren also documented the transition of his body from female to male.
4. Ian Harvey.
American Ian Harvey is a comedian, and often uses this for his performances. Many celebrities of the gay world, led by Margaret Cho, took part in his show.
5. Lucas Silveira.
Born in Canada in 1979 under the name Lilia Silveira. Lucas Silveira went down in history as the first transsexual to openly declare this. Lucas is a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for one of the rock bands.
6. Katastrophe.
Rocco Kayatos, also known as Katastrophe, is an American hip-hop rapper and producer. He also became the first transsexual performer in the hip-hop genre.
7. Thomas Beaty.
Thomas Beaty became famous all over the world for his "pregnancy". In the role of a woman, Biti lived for almost 25 years, only after that he began to take male hormones. He did not want to agree to surgical intervention, because he himself wanted to become a mother, like his wife. At the moment, bitya has 3 children.
8. Ryan Sallance.
Ryne was born Kimberly Ann Salans. He currently works for the Transgender Organization of America as a lawyer. The path of transformation from a woman to a man, he went in 2005 and since then has managed to star in the program "Larry King Live!", As well as in numerous magazines as a model.
9. Andreas Krieger.
Andreas Krieger, while still a woman, competed in track and field athletics for the East German team as a shot thrower. From an early age he was fed with anabolic steroids without his knowledge, which led to the fact that his appearance became more and more "masculine". In 1990, Krieger retired from the sport and in 1997 participated in gender reassignment surgery.
10. Chaz Bono.
Chaz Bono, known as Chastity Bono as a child, is the daughter of famous American performers Sonny and Cher. At the age of 25, Chastity publicly confessed her lesbian inclinations, and after a couple of years she performed a number of operations and now enjoys simple family happiness.
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The transition from one gender to another is one of the most difficult things that a person can do, but people who feel uncomfortable in their own body are not afraid, because for them the greatest happiness will be to look in the mirror and see their true self in reflection ". If you don't know anything about transgender people, you can assume that these are people who are just playing dress-up. But this is very far from the truth, because in reality everything is much deeper. Gender transition is a mental, emotional and medical transformation that involves changing a person's entire life. Today we want to tell you 6 incredible stories about women who were born as men.
Caitlyn Jenner
67 years old
Bruce Jenner is a former decathlon gold medalist at the Montreal Olympics. Despite the fact that after this Jenner's sports career began to decline, he became the star of America. A star with a big secret. Only in 2015, in an interview with Vanity Fair, Jenner admitted that when he went out as an Olympic champion, he was wearing tights and a bra under his clothes. In general, Bruce began to paint and dress as a girl at the age of 8. However, Bruce, in his own words, was not homosexual. In 1991, he married Chris Kardashian, the mother of the famous reality TV family. This was Bruce's third marriage. Chris and Bruce had daughters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
Chris knew about the oddities of her husband, who continued to keep a secret until breaking up with her in 2013. At the same time, Bruce began hormone therapy to prepare for the final sex reassignment surgery. According to Jenner himself, he thought about suicide until he got the courage to finally become a woman named Caitlin: “I have always loved women and have never felt attracted to men, despite my feminine nature. All three of my marriages were sincere, and I love all six of my children. "
Andrea Pejic
26 years
Androgynous fashion model from Yugoslavia (later the family moved to Australia) Andrei Pezhich openly declared his bisexuality, but insisted that he was not going to change sex. Andrei did not keep his word: in February 2015, after several operations and therapy, Andrei finally became Andrea.
Andrea appeared in the May issue of American Vogue, becoming the first transgender model to appear on the pages of this edition. Note that outwardly Andrea has not changed: Pejic from childhood looked very feminine and cultivated it.
Ines Rau
25 years
Frenchwoman Rau - best friend of Andrea Pejic - posed for Playboy, and in November this year she became the girl of the month. Ines admits that as a child she dreamed of becoming one of the Disney princesses, and now she is flattered when she is compared to Cinderella. At the age of 15, the model underwent gender reassignment surgery and moved to New York, where she built a successful modeling career.
Dana International
45 years
The winner of Eurovision-98 is a famous Israeli transsexual singer. At the time of her victory, Dana had been Sharon Cohen's girlfriend for five years. Before gender reassignment, the singer bore the male name Yaron. Yaron began to fall in love with boys when he was still at school, about which he told his older sister, with whom he had a close relationship. Therefore, the news of the decision to change sex did not shock either Yaron's sister or mother, who also could not help but notice the peculiarities of her son.
The Wachowski sisters
Lana, 52, and Lilly, 49
As a child, Larry Wachowski (that was Lana's name before the sex change) liked to spend time in silence with a book, and when he still went outside, he wanted to play with the girls, not kick the ball. These desires were reflected in the appearance of young Larry: he liked the long hair, which he wore before entering a Catholic school, and the skirts that he wore alone at home. In college, Larry thrashed between his own desires and the condemnation of society. Future Lana was saved by art and the support of her family: together with his brother Eddie, he drew comics. Then the idea of "The Matrix" appeared - a film about the world, which shows the fragility of a person under pressure from society.
After the premiere of The Matrix, Larry began seeing a psychotherapist and once spoke to his family about the possibility of gender transition. In 2003, when his family made his decision, Larry embarked on a series of gender reassignment surgeries, changed his name and divorced his wife Thea Bloom.
In 2016, the youngest of the Wachowski brothers also came out as a woman. Wachowski added that family, wife and friends fully support his decision.
Sona Avedyan
35 years
The stern Marine Matthew Avedian, from the mere sight of which was shivering, dreamed all his life ... no, not about military glory. The guy wanted to be a woman.
Since childhood, Matthew loved "women's things": he tried on his mother's clothes until she caught him. From that moment on, Matthew became afraid of his true desires and began to do everything so as not to be different from others. In addition, Avedian grew up in an extremely religious family.
Matthew was actively involved in sports, and then went to the Marine Corps. After some time, he got married and became a father. However, he soon realized that he was exhausted. He could no longer meet the requirements of others, for the first time in his life he wanted to just be himself.
Matthew started taking hormones, got breast implants, had full body laser hair removal and ended up undergoing gender reassignment surgery. Now the beauty's name is Sona, she is a comedian, lecturer and activist for transgender people.
Valentine de Hing
27 years
The Dutch woman Valentin made the decision to change sex when she was 8 years old, then the future girl became the heroine of a documentary film, which lasted 9 years. All this time, Valentine was in the process of transformation. The project made de Hing famous in his native Holland, and Valentin herself, having become a woman, began a modeling career.
Angela Pons
25 years
Angela Pons became the first transgender girl to take part in a European beauty pageant. In 2014, Angela finally turned into a girl and after only a few months became a contestant in Spain's Miss World Beauty Pageant, but did not receive the title of the most beautiful girl in Spain. This does not upset the beauty - she already considers herself lucky: “When my parents asked what toys I like, I always said “Barbie.” When I turned 11, I started to turn into a girl. I just could not fight with who I am. Now I want to show young people by my example what it means to be transgender ".
Laverne Cox
45 years
Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox, while still a boy, came to school wearing a skirt and makeup. This angered everyone: teachers, parents and classmates. But Cox continued to look in accordance with her inner world and, having moved to New York, underwent gender reassignment surgery. Her other dream was to be an actress. At first, she was offered the roles of prostitutes and perverts - this is the only way, according to many screenwriters, transgender people can express themselves. And in 2013, Cox was invited to the sitcom "Orange is the hit of the season", and this project was a real success for the actress.
Cox plans to make a film that will tell the truth about transgender people. After all, it's all about the picture: we are used to seeing them as desperate victims of violence or the sex industry, and Laverne knows that among them there are wonderful doctors, nurses, lawyers, mothers and sisters who, like everyone else, want love, understanding and protection.
Hari Nef
24 years
Nari is not only a model. She studied drama and theater at Columbia University, and has also collaborated as an author with Vice, Dazed & Confused, Adult, and others.
Gina Rosero
33 years
Gina has been hiding for 10 years that she is trans. At 17, Rosero left the Philippines and went to the United States, where she received a new name and passport, as well as a new job and friends who had no idea about her past. After becoming a popular model, Gina decided to tell her story, hoping to inspire and cheer up transgender people around the world who have not found support among family and friends.
Carmen Carrera
32 years
Carmen was born a man named Christopher Roman, and became famous as an actress, model, reality TV star and artist of the burlesque genre. Carmen began her career as an artist while still being a physiologically male. For example, Carmen posed nude for the famous photographer David LaChapelle, showing both a woman's breasts and a penis.
Leah Ti
36 years
Brazilian Lia Tee began her career in the fashion world as an assistant stylist - then Lia was still a young man. Later, Leandro himself began to pose in the form of an androgyne. Realizing his desire to be a girl, he began to drink hormones, and in March 2011 he underwent a permanent sex change operation.
Leah became the first transgender person to participate in the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. She led the national team of her country during the ceremony at the stadium.
Cassandra Cass
39 years
Cassandra has long been a Hollywood celebrity: a blonde with forms acts as a dancer and is filmed for television. Not so long ago, she took part in the reality show "Wild Things", in which transgender women travel around the country to raise money for the treatment of their relatives.
But Cassandra's life was not always bright and eventful. Cass was once an ordinary village boy from Iowa who could not imagine that his life would change so radically.
Cassandra's parents are a football coach and housewife who supported their son in his decision to change. But the father categorically did not want to accept the essence of his child. "If you become a woman, who will need you?" - he said.
The 18-year-old boy could not stand it: he took all the accumulated money, got into the car and drove to Florida, where he began to take his first steps in the dance industry. It was there that he made the final decision to change sex.
It took Cassandra over 10 years and about $ 250,000 to become a diva.
Valentina Sampaio
22
Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio became the heroine of French Vogue this March. Before that, not a single transgender woman had managed to get on the cover of the main fashion magazine! But for Sampaio herself, the experience of appearing on the cover was not the first - in October last year, she graced the cover of the Brazilian Elle.
