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Lea T and the loneliness of the fashion world's first transsexual supermodel

Started by Natasha, July 31, 2010, 10:28:20 PM

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Natasha

July 31, 2010, 10:28:20 PM
Lea T and the loneliness of the fashion world's first transsexual supermodel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/01/fashion-transgender
Thomas Phillips
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At first sight, the only thing that is striking about Lea T is her beauty. With her full lips, strong jaw and dark tresses falling in cascades over her shoulders, she is the perfect high-fashion package: alluring, whippet-thin and with a face too distinctive to be considered merely pretty.

No wonder, you might think, she has gone from backroom assistant to sar- torial sensation in just months, appearing in Givenchy's autumn/winter ad campaign, smiling in Italian Vanity Fair and – as a crowning glory – posing naked for the hallowed pages of French Vogue.

But if this Brazilian bombshell is causing such a stir it is perhaps because there is more to her than meets the eye. Lea T was born Leandro and, as well as being a model and a muse, she is an out and proud transsexual.
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