'I went through all of that sh*t and came out on the other side, still able to generate self-love and compassion and understanding for other people.' –MunroeBergdorf 💖
Munroe’s dynamic with her parents also turned around. In her early 20s, her father’s battle with cancer brought them together and helped rectify old hurts. She sees a clearer picture of them now, saying, “My parents are still together.
They're very, very hard workers. I think that my mum's extremely feisty, like I am, and my dad is extremely stubborn, like I am.” The shift in their relationship helps Munroe feel optimistic about other families with trans children. “I think sometimes when you love somebody and you've got an image of them in [your] head, when they tell you a piece of information that you weren't aware of, it can sometimes feel like you don't know them. I think that a lot of parents that stuck around with their kids realize that you don't lose a child; you just gain the truth of the child that you've always had.” For one thing, Munroe's parents have embraced a daughter who is bent on living fabulously.After college, Munroe began her career in fashion, initially on the public relations side of the equation, for a large, London-based agency. After working for three years as a harried underling, she felt burned out and relentlessly dysphoric. By the timewas passed by Parliament, which provided measures to protect trans people in the workplace, she already felt it was too late to salvage her relationship with her employers. Her break from the job was the impetus she needed to stop deferring her transition. In 2011, she began. Munroe fled to nightlife and the couturier Ziad Ghanem, who cast her in her first modeling job. In the years that followed, she was photographed by eminent British photographers Rankin and Nick Knight. Modeling meant she could be seen, but not heard — a compromise she swallowed at the time. It wasn’t until Uniqlo cast her in a 2016 campaign that she had a platform to speak out about her experiences as a trans woman, a chance she’d been waiting for.
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