Meet Androgynous Model Stav Strashko, Toyota's Transgender Sensation
by Isabel Wilkinson Aug 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT
An androgynous Israeli 20-year-old in a bikini is now selling you a Japanese car.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/23/meet-androgynous-model-stav-strashko-toyota-s-transgender-sensation.htmlMeet Stav Strashko, an androgynous model who garnering attention for his arresting resemblance to a woman. The 20-year-old was born in the Ukraine and grew up in Tel Aviv, where he was discovered by an Israeli stylist at 17 and began working as a model in 2010. Though Strashko says he played with his mother's makeup as a child and wore eyeliner on the streets as a teenager, it didn't immediately occur to him that he could be mistaken for a woman.
"I realized that I was androgynous when I began to model," he told Candy magazine. "All the stylists put women's clothes on me, and then it struck me that I can really look like a woman." The model, who has a boyfriend and worships Angelina Jolie, says that he is often mistaken for a girl when he meets new people. "Usually when people talk to me they soon realize I'm a boy, but sometimes people just keep treating me as a girl not realizing who I really am. I believe that the mind sees what it wants."
