Andreja Pejić
When she began her career in the early 1990s, Andreja was generally acknowledged as the world’s first fully androgynous supermodel. She made history earlier this year when she became the first transgender woman to grace the cover of GQ magazine. She stated, in terms of transgender women’s relationships with beauty, “All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it’s a bit more complicated. There’s a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands. At the end of the day, it’s about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender—and, for me, being perceived as a woman.”
Andreja Pejić
Alexandra Billings
Alexandra created history as the 2nd openly transgender person to play a transgender character on mainstream tv when she landed the role of Donna in Romy and Michele: In the Beginning. In addition to her acting career, she is a teacher, a singer, and an activist. Alexandra stated in an interview with Alexandra Tempus of Jezebel that “We have got to break out of the container of ignorance. And I don’t mean that in a gender-specific way, I mean that in a generalized way. We have got to realize that we are all students of the human experience. And if we do not start learning from each other and really listening and receiving the gift from the person across from us, we are lost.”
Alexandra Billings
