Meet the models breaking the mould
Bring on the wrinkles... and the spare tyre and the brains, too. Because you don't have to be a silly, skinny teenager to make it in modelling these days
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 March 2012 18.01 EST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/mar/02/models-breaking-mouldThe male/female model: Andrej Pejic
• Interview by Simon Hattenstone
At the age of 14, Andrej Pejic liberated himself. For years, he had tried to be a conventional boy – he'd stopped playing with Barbies, he'd started to wear baggy clothes and caps, he'd even had a go at Aussie rules football. But it just didn't seem right, and the more laddish he tried to be, the more the other boys called him gay or a girl.
So he went with his instincts. "Liberation came in a bottle of bleach," he laughs. Out went the sandy-brown hair, in came the blond bombshell. To some he was a ridiculously beautiful girl, to others he was an even more ridiculously beautiful boy. He was happy to occupy an androgynous halfway house that defied definition.
