“We are the person we will wake up to everyday and we have to be the one person that loves ourselves before loving anyone else”
What does freedom means to you?
It is a very beautiful question. Freedom, for me, means to live in the present; To not think about the past, to not project yourself in the future, but to truly live in the present. It means to love yourself with no limits, to not judge yourself, and to not care at all about other people’s judgments. This is the ultimate freedom.
How would you define yourself?
I would define myself as someone very brave, free, and passionate; someone real and a tad crazy. And crazy is good. You need to be crazy in life.
What is the difference between how people define you, and how you define yourself?
My friends and family would say that I am very brave, but mostly as someone who is very funny and real. I’m someone real, voila. In reality, and I do repeat this often, journalists love to represent me as a transgender model, but they are wrong. They should not define me like this. I say this often in interviews – being a transgender is a part of my life. It has been a transition and I do not define myself as a transgender person. I am a woman, and that is why I called my book, Femme (meaning woman in French). Being transgender is not a definition in itself. Being transgender, for me, is just part of my history. I am way more that just a transgender model. I am a woman, who appears to be as well, transgender, amongst many, many things.