Robert De Niro
Daughter Airyn Comes Out As Transgender
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Robert De Niro‘s daughter simply gave an enormous reveal … she’s transgender!
Airyn De Niro sat down for a current interview with Them — an internet LGBTQ media outlet — to inform the world she’s “entering into this new id.”
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 child” as a result of she’s one among De Niro’s 7 youngsters — she and her twin brother, Julian, are De Niro’s youngsters with actress Toukie Smith.
She says these articles have all of it flawed … noting that her Oscar-winning dad by no means handed her a job in one among his movies, nor did he ever deliver her to film premieres or different trade features.
She says the legendary actor all the time needed her to search out her path in life and attain success on her personal advantage. She admits her dad and mom aren’t good, however thanks them for shielding her from the limelight, so she might have a considerably regular childhood.
Within the interview, Airyn additionally opened up about combating physique dysmorphia, a psychological well being situation through which somebody obsesses over flaws of their look.
She stated that rising up, she was informed she was “too massive, not skinny sufficient, not Black sufficient, not white sufficient, too female, not masculine sufficient.” She provides, “It was by no means simply, ‘You’re good, simply the way in which you might be.’”
Consequently, Airyn stated she started hormone remedy final November, drawing inspiration from her mom and different Black ladies.
She hopes to encourage folks like herself — Black, queer, and in greater our bodies — who do not match the mildew of being “tremendous skinny or heroin stylish.”
Transferring ahead … she hopes to in the future turn into a psychological well being skilled who treats “folks of shade and queer folks.”
