What is it like to be born not in your body? What is it like living after the sex change operation? The world's most famous transgenders represent their stories.
Recently, the world circled the news that a couple of transgender people from Ecuador had a daughter. The girl's parents have not yet done the final sex-change operations: they wanted the child to conceive naturally. Thus, the girl was born by her father - Fernando Machado (nee Maria). The girl's mother became Diane Rodriguez (formerly the young man Luis). Fernando and Diana became the first transgender couple in South America, who ventured to have a baby.
The way of lovers to happiness was not strewn with roses. So, Maria, parents were kicked out of the house when they heard about the daughter's desire to change the sex, and in local newspapers she was written about as a crazy woman.
The news about the replenishment of this unusual family attracted attention to the problems of transgender people from all over the world. Unfortunately, many of them feel alone and unhappy. But some managed to gain courage and loudly declare themselves. We remember the most brilliant and famous transgender people.
Kaitlin Jenner (66 years old)
Already in a com-com, and in Bruce Jenner, the star of the series "Family Kardashian", it was impossible to suspect a transgender: athlete-athlete, gold medalist of the Olympics, father of six children from 3 wives ... But it turned out that even such courageous men can dream of a change sex. According to Bruce, he always wanted to become a woman, he liked to secretly change into women's clothes and paint. However, he was not homosexual. His last marriage with Chris Kardashian, the mother of the scandalous Kim, lasted 23 years. The couple had two daughters - now known models Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
After the divorce from Chris Bruce even thought about suicide - so strong was the internal conflict between the desire to become a woman and the fear of grieving their loved ones. In the end, at the age of 65 (!), He underwent an operation to correct the sex and appeared before the public in a new pretty image of a woman named Caitlin. And everything would be fine, but here with a private life Jenner had problems. She, like throughout her life, like women, she is absolutely indifferent to men, but she can not find a worthy companion of life. There are rumors that, for this reason, Caitlin regrets the sex change and wants to return to the male body.
Chaz Bono (47 years old)
March 4, 1969 a popular singer Cher and her husband Sonny Bono was born a girl. At that time, the couple worked on a film where Cher played the role of a girl who could not understand her sexual orientation. Cher decided to name her newborn daughter Chastity, in honor of this her heroine and, as they say, "croaked."
After 13 years, Chastity announced to her parents that she was a lesbian. At first they were in shock, tried to treat their only daughter, put her in various rehabilitation centers, but all was in vain. At the age of 18, Chastity performed a cumming-out, i.e. publicly told about her non-traditional orientation. The star mother seemed to accept this state of affairs, but for her it was a shock when her daughter announced her decision to change the sex with the help of surgery. Chastity had several complicated operations.
In 2010, Cher lost her daughter and found a son named Chez Bono. Not immediately, but the singer managed to understand and accept Chasa:
"I respect his choice. If I once woke up as a man, I would also start to think with horror of how to get out of this body. This is what Chaz felt, and now he found peace. "
On his difficult path, Chez Bono, a professional journalist and human rights activist, wrote a book and made a documentary.
Sisters Lana (51 years old) and Lili Wachowski (48 years old)
Even more surprising is the story of the Wachowski brothers - the creators of the legendary "Matrix".
They were born in Chicago in the family of a Polish businessman and grew up ordinary boys. True, the elder, Larry, was very closed and could not find a common language with peers. Later, he admitted that he was not interested in playing with the boys, he was attracted to dolls and girlish dresses, and secretly he put on the dresses of his sisters. In his teens, realizing that he was unlike others, Larry wanted to commit suicide. Having put on his sister's nightgown, he wrote a long suicide note, but by a lucky chance to complete his intentions he failed. Larry was very friendly with his younger brother Andy, and perhaps his support helped him survive in this difficult period.
After school, the brothers worked as carpenters, and in their spare time they drew comics and developed the idea of the "Matrix", the script of which was later brought to the Warner Brosers film studio.
Thanks to the films "Communication" and "The Matrix", Wachowski became celebrities, but they did not spread their personal lives, refusing to give interviews. It is known that both were married, but Larry divorced in 2002, began to appear in public in women's clothing and began to prepare for an operation to correct the sex.
And in 2012, Larry made a cunning-out, presented to the public in a new image - a woman with pink hair named Lana. When at a press conference one of the journalists asked Lana an immodest question, Andy, who was present in the hall, besieged the insolent:
"I will smash a bottle on the head of anyone who offends my sister!"
In 2009, Lana married with the dominant Ilsa Strix (real name Karin Winslow) - the star of BDSM clubs. While still a man, Larry became her regular customer and beat off the then-spouse - the big guy Buck Angel. The latter, by the way, turned out to be a woman, pumped up with male hormones.
And in May 2016, Camping out and Andy turned into Lilly. It turns out that Andy also hated his male body all his life, and the woman feels much more comfortable. The most interesting thing is that Andy's wife, with whom they together since 1991, supported him.
Harisu (41 years old)
Harisu is a popular South Korean singer, model and actress. She was born in 1975 by a boy named Li Kyung-Yip and was one of five children in a large family. Already in early childhood, the child showed a pronounced girl's behavior.
At the age of 15, after an unsuccessful attempt to build relationships with his peer, Lee thought about changing sex and began taking hormones. For this reason, he was released from compulsory military service, considering mentally ill. By the end of the 90s, Lee realized his dream by doing sex, breast and thigh enhancements, as well as rhinoplasty. Then Li's parents were very saddened, but now they are proud of the successes of their daughter.
For several years the "newly-made" girl lived in Japan, where she joined the modeling agency, then she took the pseudonym Haris. Slava came to her after shooting in a commercial of DoDo cosmetics.
The girl never hid the truth about changing the sex, and about her often say: "prettier than women ..."
Harisu is officially considered a woman. For nearly 10 years, she has been married to a Korean rap artist.
Andrea Pežić (24 years old)
Androgyne model Andrey Pezhich was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the age of 9, he and his mother and older brother emigrated to Australia. As long as he remembers himself, Andrei wanted to be a girl. From an early age, he was interested in outfits and hairstyles, and to football he was completely indifferent, than infuriated his brother. At the age of 17, Andrey was in the modeling business. His unique appearance allowed him to advertise both male and female clothes. So, at the Gautier show he defiled in a wedding dress.
In 2014, Andrew decided to correct the sex and became a girl named Andrea. Now Andrea feels great and remains one of the most popular models. Her personal life, she does not advertise, but admits that she dreams of becoming a mother, and recently she had an engagement ring on her finger.
Lea Ti (34 years old)
Leah Ti, a fragile Brazilian beauty, the pride of the fashion house Givenchy, it turns out, was also born a boy who was given the name Leonardo at birth. Her (or his) father is the famous Brazilian footballer Toninho Cerezo. From an early age, Leonardo realized that he was unlike other boys, but carefully concealed this fact. They never dreamed of a modeling career, dreaming of becoming a veterinarian. His calm and measured life changed after meeting with fashion designer Ricardo Tishi, the current director of the Givenchy house. It was Ricardo who persuaded Leonardo to appear before the public in the image of a girl. They carefully worked out the image of the future model and went to Paris, where Lea immediately became the star of the fashion world. She starred for covers of many fashion magazines, demonstrated women's clothes on the podium, took part in photo shoots.
In 2012, Lea became a real girl, having made an operation for the correction of sex. Despite the resounding success, Leah wants to someday give up her modeling career and fulfill her childhood dream by becoming a veterinarian.
Gina Rosero (32 years old)
But Gina Rosero, the famous Amrican model, advertising swimsuits and women's underwear, for almost 10 years kept the secret of what used to be a guy. The future model, a Filipina by birth, was born in Manila. Gina remembers how at the age of five she put a towel on her head and imagined that it was her long hair.
In her youth she took part in transsexual contests and took first place. Even then she dreamed of becoming a woman, and not just a woman, but a beauty. In addition to hormone therapy, Gina has done several skin whitening operations. And at age 19, accompanied by her mother, who in all her support, Gina went to Thailand, where with the help of first-class surgeons finally became a girl.
Then the model settled in the United States, where she made a successful career. Until recently, almost none of her American friends had known about her masculine past, until Gina decided to publicly tell the truth. She did this in order to support the transgender people around the world, suffering from loneliness and misunderstanding of their loved ones.
Laverna Cox (32 years old)
The famous actress, the star of the series "Orange - the hit of the season" was born in a small town of Alabama. As a child, the future actress was persecuted and publicly censured, because she did not want to wear men's clothes and put a skirt in school. Then she had two cherished dreams: to become a woman and to act in films.
And both came true, when Laverna moved to New York, entered an acting college and underwent an operation to change the sex. Her finest hour struck in 2013, after the release of the series "Orange - the hit of the season," where she played the role of imprisoned female transgender Sophia Barset.
Eidian Dowling (29 years old)
Eidian Dowling is a brutal bodybuilder, blogger and social activist. It's impossible to believe that this muscular man was once a girl. Even before the operation to change sex, Eidian, then an angular teenage girl, had romantic relationships with his contemporaries. One of them said: "Why do not you become a guy?" These words strongly influenced the future fate of Adian. He not only made a correction of sex, but also began to intensively engage in sports, pumping up fine muscles.
In 2015, he took part in the contest for the candidacy of a man, who will fall on the cover of the men's magazine Men's Health. As a result of voting, he took the second place and yet he became the first transgender male to appear on the cover of the main men's magazine: he was photographed with other finalists for a special issue of Men's Health.
Now, Adian continues to play sports, maintains his blog and fights for the rights of transgender people. In his personal life, everything is fine with him: he is happy with his wife.