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I don't want to go through the whole process." "When I try to use the men's room it's like, 'Please leave,' when I want to go to the toilet. "Now, I tend to use the women's room because it's a lot less complicated," he said. Gender confusion is precisely what Pejic's "It Girl" status depends on. They knew he wasn't the classic alpha male, and Pejic soon crossed over into women's wear.įashion designer Jean Paul Gautier put him in a wedding gown for showing his 2011 spring collection. A modeling agency discovered Pejic while he was working at a McDonald's. "Like any other kid, except for cowboy outfits, it was something else," Pejic said.Īll he saw was "a child," he said, not a gender. He said he was 3 or 4 years old when he first put on women's clothing and, even away from the cameras, Pejic said he is more comfortable wearing female fashions over menswear.
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"My mum was Serbian and my dad was Croatian." I grew up in a refugee camp in Serbia," he said. Pejic and his family moved to Australia when he was 8 after his parents divorced, escaping ethnic-war-ravaged Yugoslavia. There is hair, there is skin, there is just more to show the beauty." "With every species, there is always a gender that is more extravagant, and in humans that is women. When asked if he saw himself as a man or a woman, Pejic responded, "I see myself," adding that he doesn't see gender. The runway is now dominated by flat-chested, rail-thin giants like him. Happy in his own skin, Pejic readily admits that his look doesn't just blur the line between male and female, it seems to erase it. "I don't feel the need to alter my body significantly." "I feel comfortable the way I am," he said. While he does consider himself to fall under the transgender umbrella, Pejic said he has no plans to undergo any surgeries. "I prayed to God and it worked," he said. Pejic said he does not take hormones to alter his appearance, and he has never had to shave his face. The difference is that he is still biologically a man. Much like artist Andy Warhol's trans-sexual muse "Candy Darling," Pejic is taking androgyny mainstream. People instantly recognize that his beauty is genderless. He says his sexiest feature is his hips and the toughest part of modeling in women's clothing is squeezing into size 11 high-heeled shoes, which add inches to his already 6-foot-2 frame. Pejic wears a women's size 2 or 4 - with no alterations. No one looks like him," said photographer Chris Benz. The newcomer was swarmed by international press after walking this week at New York's Fashion Week. His face has graced the covers of numerous high-fashion magazines around the world, more than any other male model, and now he has offers pouring in for acting roles, a reality show - even his own nail polish line. Modeling is one of the few industries where women make three times more money than men, and Pejic now commands women's fees for his work. "I've always liked feminine things since I was a child," he said.