The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.Collection: Beauty
To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are.Collection: Respect
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?Collection: Society
The Internet gave me the sense that there were words to describe my feelings and medical terms.Collection: Medical
My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I've realised that I don't have to be ashamed of my past.
I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.
I take biotin and silica for my hair to grow faster, but it's good for your skin, too.
I would go through my mother's makeup kit, and I think she thought it was really cute. I was only three or four years old.
I have a very angular face, so my makeup routine is focused around softening my features, and I've finally learned how to contour to my advantage.
Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'
Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and reach as many people as possible. It's more unexpected for someone like me.
I usually wake up around 9, and the first thing I do is make myself a cup of tea. I drink a lot of tea - green tea, white tea, and all kinds of herbal teas.
Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.
Stepping outside of my personal bubble, or that of fashion or beauty, is pretty important to me.
I kick off my metabolism with a glass of O.J. and a pretty big smoothie. I put in chia seeds, flax seeds, raw organic honey, fresh spinach, hemp seeds, avocado, matcha, spirulina, raw almond butter, almond milk, berries, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds.
Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.
My mum would say sometimes, 'Do you think you might be gay?' But it wasn't that. When I imagined myself in a romantic setting, it was heterosexual, but I was just always a girl.
It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.
Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.
Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.
I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.
To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.
The fact that my body is presented as an unrealistic ideal of 'beauty' to the world doesn't stop me - or most other models - from feeling unsure about ourselves.
Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.
I just want to prove that I can do anything any other female model can do.
There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.
If I wasn't modeling, I'd be studying economics or international politics.
On a personal level, my mom is my biggest inspiration. She's always been an idol for me. I used to dream about growing up and being like her.
I definitely did look back into the past when I was a teenager for transgender icons, like a famous model called Tula in the 1970s-'80s who starred as a 'Bond' girl.
I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.
Other women don't go around saying, 'Wow, I'm female.' They have room in their lives for other things. That's my goal. One day, I would like to be just another girl.
The way I need to look, it's a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.
It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.
I love costume jewelry, the stuff Givenchy/Riccardo Tisci do, and old school rock n' roll jewelry, too.
The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about the homeless LGBT culture in New York City that goes back to the '80s. I found that very interesting, and it's definitely something that I care about.
I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.
I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself.
Mum's very proud. She finds every picture of me and has them on every wall.
I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me.
My first passion is politics.
People would be surprised by me if they knew I was humble.
When I'm nervous, I can't eat or sleep.
When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch.
I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.
I'm comfortable in my skin, and for my look to be celebrated is great.
I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.
For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.
I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.
You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.