Beauty comes from within, but it's up to us to use fashion and beauty to express who we are on the inside.
Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.
Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.
It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'
My life isn't really that different from a biological female.
For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like - I hate to say it - but it's kind of like a setback.
Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.
It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.
For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.
I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.
When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.
Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.
Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.
Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones or after surgery, you just don't really know what your results will be, how you'll finally look. Managing all of that is a challenge.
Being a woman means everything to me.
Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.
Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.
Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.
In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.
I see the human body as your soul's apartment.
