Andreja Pejic Vogue, No one encapsulates the moment the trans community is having in the fashion world better than Andreja Pejic, who, after years of modeling both men’s and women’s clothing, underwent a gender-confirmation procedure and now identifies fully as a woman.
But even Pejic, who has stomped the runway for Mark Jacobs and Jeremy Scott, and appeared on the cover of Elle and French Vogue, has faced transphobia in the industry.
Despite her impressive resume, she was told transitioning would kill her career: “There was definitely a lot of ‘Oh, you’re going to lose what’s special about you. You’re not going to be interesting anymore,” she tells Vogue in the magazine’s first major feature on a trans model. “There are loads of pretty girls out there,’”
One agent even told Pejic, “It’s better to be androgynous than a tranny.”But the 23-year-old Bosnian-Australian beauty, who is the new face of Make Up Forever, knows she can’t live her life for other people—whether that’s in her work or her personal life.
“Being known to the whole world with this transition, I thought, ‘Who is ever going to love me? How am I going to have a relationship with a man if all of this is public?’” she admits. “Then I got to a place where I was like, ‘I’m successful and happy with what I’ve achieved. There’s nothing I should be ashamed of.”
Despite her impressive resume, she was told transitioning would kill her career: “There was definitely a lot of ‘Oh, you’re going to lose what’s special about you. You’re not going to be interesting anymore,” she tells Vogue in the magazine’s first major feature on a trans model. “There are loads of pretty girls out there,’”
One agent even told Pejic, “It’s better to be androgynous than a tranny.”But the 23-year-old Bosnian-Australian beauty, who is the new face of Make Up Forever, knows she can’t live her life for other people—whether that’s in her work or her personal life.
“Being known to the whole world with this transition, I thought, ‘Who is ever going to love me? How am I going to have a relationship with a man if all of this is public?’” she admits. “Then I got to a place where I was like, ‘I’m successful and happy with what I’ve achieved. There’s nothing I should be ashamed of.”
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