Robert De Niro
Daughter Airyn Comes Out As Transgender
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Robert De Niro‘s daughter simply gave a giant reveal … she’s transgender!
Airyn De Niro sat down for a latest interview with Them — a web based LGBTQ media outlet — to inform the world she’s “stepping into this new identity.”
The 29-year-old says there is a distinction between being seen and being seen — claiming she’s all the time been seen however has but to be seen.
Airyn introduced up tabloid tales labeling her a “nepo baby” as a result of she’s one in all De Niro’s 7 kids — she and her twin brother, Julian, are De Niro’s youngsters with actress Toukie Smith.
She says these articles have all of it fallacious … noting that her Oscar-winning dad by no means handed her a task in one in all his movies, nor did he ever carry her to film premieres or different business capabilities.
She says the legendary actor all the time wished her to seek out her path in life and attain success on her personal benefit. She admits her dad and mom aren’t excellent, however thanks them for shielding her from the limelight, so she may have a considerably regular childhood.
Within the interview, Airyn additionally opened up about fighting physique dysmorphia, a psychological well being situation by which somebody obsesses over flaws of their look.
She mentioned that rising up, she was instructed she was “too big, not skinny enough, not Black enough, not white enough, too feminine, not masculine enough.” She provides, “It was by no means simply, ‘You’re good, simply the way in which you’re.’”
Because of this, Airyn mentioned she started hormone remedy final November, drawing inspiration from her mom and different Black girls.
She hopes to encourage individuals like herself — Black, queer, and in greater our bodies — who do not match the mildew of being “tremendous skinny or heroin stylish.”
Shifting ahead … she hopes to someday develop into a psychological well being skilled who treats “people of color and queer people.”
