7 Beautiful Women Who Were Born Male

Yep! She was male once upon a time

The world is an ever evolving place and these days, we see more people coming out as cross dressers or even go the whole nine yards and change their gender.

Below is a list of beautiful women who were actually born male.

1. Caroline Cossey

Caroline Cossey

Also known as Tula, the 62-year-old was born as Barry Kenneth Cossey in Norfolk, UK. At puberty, Barry started showing distinct feminine features due to a variant of an intersex condition known as Klinefelter’s syndrome, where, instead of having the XY male chromosome pattern, she had the genotype XXXY.

She had her final sex reassignment surgery in December 1974 and went on to appear as an extra in a James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Onlyin 1981, as well as in on a number of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar and Playboy.

2. Laverne Cox

She features in the TV series, ‘Orange is the New Black’

Laverne Cox is the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of Timemagazine. She gained prominence as Sophia in the TV series Orange Is The New Black, a character that underwent a sex change. Her twin brother played the role of Marcus – the pre-transitioning Sophia – in the series.

Cox is also a LGBT advocate.

3. Claudia Charriez

Claudia Charriez

This scintillating beauty was kicked out of America’s Next Top Model in 2006 as a result of being transgender. She was also fired from The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, apparently, because she wasn’t making any money for the agency.

The same gorgeous person eventually became the winner of America’s Next Top Transsexual Model.

4. Ines-Loan Rau

Ines-Loan Rau is a stunning transgender who is gaining rapid fame as a fashion model. Rau underwent gender transformation surgery at 16.

5. Nong Poy

Nong Poy is also known as Poyd or Treechada Petcharat

This Thai model simply hated being born a male and at the age of 17, underwent a sex reassignment surgery.

At 24, she became the winner of Miss Tiffany’s Universe and Miss International Queen 2004.

6. Janet Mock

Janet Mock is an American writer, TV host, transgender rights activist, author of the New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness, contributing editor for Marie Claire, and the former staff editor of People magazine’s website.

7. Lea T

Brazilian by birth but raised in Italy, Lea T was born a boy to Brazilian footballer Antônio Carlos Cerezo.

She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 2012 and subsequently, she has become quite a success as a transgender model.