Usually, celebrity interviews consist of a couple of amusing anecdotes and, if you’re Chris Pratt, a demonstration of how you can run in heels, but in a recent chat with Access Hollywood, Ruby Rose went way beyond all that, speaking candidly about her gender fluidity, and her desire to be a boy growing up.
The Orange Is The New Black star said that, as a youngster, a waiter asked whether she was a “beautiful girl” or a “handsome boy”, and she herself wasn’t quite sure of the answer. For years after, she fantasised about being in a boy, and even collected coins in a jar after seeing an Oprah segment on gender reassignment surgery.
“It wasn’t until much later in life that I realised I could kind of do both and be androgynous and not have to necessarily be ‘womanly’ based on what I thought society expected of me, nor did I need to transition into a man in order to have this freedom that I feel today,” she said, or learning to feel comfortable in her own skin.
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