Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox sat down with The Guardian to discuss her roles as an activist for the transgender community. “Until recently, I was the transgender person that people were most aware of,” she notes. In the interview, Cox explains why she wanted to write a blog post praising Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover while also acknowledging the diversity of the trans experience. And she also shares her personal journey from wanting to feminise her face to loving it as it is:
“I have been picking myself apart my whole life,” she says. “I have never talked about the medical details of my transition, and a lot of people assume I’ve had all this surgery. Years ago, I wanted really highly invasive surgical procedures to feminise my face. All these years later, I have the money to do it, but I don’t want it. I don’t want it! I’m happy that this is the face that God gave me, and it’s imperfect.” She says, with horror, that she was recently told by a commenter on Instagram that she should get her nose done. She didn’t reply. “No, girl! My fans were like, that’s the nose African Americans have, and what’s wrong with that? My fans had my back. In those moments I have to look in the mirror and say, this is my black nose, and it’s gorgeous.”
The whole interview is definitely worth a read over on The Guardian.
