Transgender Model Geena Rocero Tells Glamour Why She Had to Share Her True Story
Sounds like Geena was blessed with very loving and accepting parents, which must have helped a lot during those difficult childhood years in the Philippines.
Transgender Model Geena Rocero Tells Glamour Why She Had to Share Her True Story
by Susan Dominus
Everyone knew Geena Rocero was a model, but they had no idea she was transgender—and had taken hormones and had surgery to be the gorgeous woman they admired. In a Glamour exclusive, she tells Susan Dominus why she risked her dream career to go public.
Geena Rocero struggled to calm herself in her Vancouver hotel room. It was March 19, the day she would be giving a talk at TED, the highly influential conference series of world thought leaders. As a model, Rocero, 30, was used to being in the spotlight, but this particular performance was like none she had ever given. She went over her speech; she obsessed about whether to wear her black YSL pumps or her strappy tangerine heels; she meditated. "What I'm about to do will change my life," she reminded herself.
Finally, it was time. In the pumps and a simple fitted dress, she walked onstage before an audience of several hundred powerhouses, including celebrities like Will Smith and Google cofounder Larry Page. "I felt like I was freeing myself to be fully as I am," she recalls. "No turning back."
Rocero started to speak about the challenge of living a life true to one's inner self. At the two-minute mark, she flashed a picture on the screen: an image of what appeared to be a little boy staring somewhat defiantly at the camera. "I was assigned 'boy' at birth, based on...my genitalia," she told the hushed audience. The beautiful woman they were looking at and the child in the photograph were the same person....
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