Lea T — World’s First (And Loneliest) Transsexual Supermodel

It can be a lonely world for transsexuals who often feel like they don’t belong with people of either gender.

The world’s first transsexual supermodel has hit the runways and with so much attention on who she really is she probably has it worse than anybody.

Lea T is originally from Brazil, but has lived for many years in Europe, and only recently emerged in the fashion world working for Givenchy, Vogue, and Vanity Fair, and is causing a lot of stir.

Any transsexual will have a lot of issues to deal with as they transform from one sex to the other, and Lea T’s transition has been made worse from all the attention she is getting.

Not only, she says, has it turned her into someone at whom strangers feel entitled to point and stare, but it has provoked the anger of her Catholic family. It has filled her body with mood-altering hormones and brought her face to face with what she says is the inherent loneliness of transsexuality.

But as most people who go through this know, they just have to deal with the bad and life will eventually improve.

“The choice,” she said in an interview in Italian Vanity Fair, “is between being unhappy forever or trying to be happy.”

Hopefully people will stop paying attention to her being transsexual once they get used to the idea and focus instead on her beauty and her abilities as a model.

She is actively avoiding getting into any relationships because she is afraid of being accepted. She worries that she will have to hide her past from any new partners.

“They live as hypocrites; it is a variation on solitude,” she said. “We transsexuals are born and grow up alone. After the operation we are born again, but once again alone. And we die alone. It is the price we pay.”

With such openness about who she is (she could have tried to hide all of this from the press) and confidence and ability as a model, I have no doubt that Lea T will be fine in the end and eventually love again.

Whether she wants to be or not she is a role model to other transsexuals and is making headway in them being more accepted by society in general.