Nikkie de Jager, better known as beauty influencerNikkieTutorials, is speaking her truth.
The social media star — who has 12.4 million subscribers onYouTubeand 12.9 million followers onInstagram— posted a video on Monday revealing that she is transgender.
“Today I am here to share something with you that I’ve always wanted to share with you one day, but under my own circumstances,” she began. “And it looks like that chance has been taken away from me. So today I am taking back my own power.”
“I am NikkieTutorials and I am Nikkie,” she continued. “I am me. We don’t need labels. If we are going to put a label on it, yes, I am transgender. But at the end of the day, I am me. And at the end of the day, you are you.”
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The social media star — who’s most viral video“The Power of Makeup”boasts a staggering 40 million views — then thanked her mom for being supportive and accepting, revealing that she was allowed to grow her hair out at age 6 and wear girl’s clothes a few years later.
She also received support from teachers, but was honest about feeling “trapped” and “angry” and was honest about the fact that some kids did not understand what she was going through.
de Jager was also upfront about the details of her transition: “Yes, I got fully-transitioned. By the time I was 14, I got my hormones because I’m a tall b**** and I kept on growing.
“By the time I was 19, I fully transitioned,” she said. “I transitioned while on YouTube.”
Next, de Jager touched on her relationship with fiance, Dylan (who proposed to the YouTube star during a trip to Italy over the summer) telling fans that she “wished she told him sooner” but that they are handling matters privately.
de Jager said she didn’t publicly disclose her Transgender identity sooner because she “wanted my channel to be about my art.”
“At the end of the day, my story is beautiful,” she said. “I’m proud of my story. No more holding back. No more secrets.”
source: people.com
