New York Times Fashionのインスタグラム(nytstyle) - 6月1日 03時25分

In “Horse Barbie,” a candid new memoir by Geena Rocero, the model and producer recounts the pleasures and pitfalls of living openly.

@geenarocero, 39, started her career on the pageant circuit in her native Philippines. She has honed the skill of attracting and deflecting attention throughout her extraordinary career. In the Philippines, Rocero lived openly as a transgender woman with the support of both her relatives and chosen family, but she could not legally change her sex marker. When she moved to the U.S. at 17, she was legally recognized as a woman on her documents, but she worked “stealth” in the fashion industry, passing as a cisgender woman while living in constant fear that her trans identity would tank her career.

Rocero said she never felt fully comfortable in the role of trans role model. At first she was excited to assume what she called an Angelina Jolie persona — a beautiful, world-trotting champion of social issues. But then she realized maybe she would rather be a Tyra Banks.

For her, that meant starting a production company and trying her hand at directing. It also meant posing for Playboy in 2019, only the second openly trans Playmate.

“I was in a trap being stealth,” she said in an interview with The New York Times. “And then I felt like I entered a new trap, which is respectability politics.”

Tap the link in our bio to read @shaneisland’s full interview with Rocero. Photo by @ghettoyolie

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