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'I'm not promiscuous but there have been occasions where I haven't felt the need to tell the person and they didn't notice,' she admits. But I will be on hormones forever.'Īlthough she is unable to have children naturally – she did not freeze any sperm before the operation – her sex life is normal. Nicole was fortunate that she did not need plastic surgery on her breasts although she had to take five 2mg blue HRT tablets daily. I was up and about after a few weeks but my energy levels were low and my nights out were cut short.' 'Then I went home to my Mum's to recuperate. I kept on pressing the button for more morphine.Ĭruel: To make matters worse Nicole, pictured as a young boy, was bullied at her secondary school Tanbridge House, where she was taunted and given the nickname 'Glenda the Bender' 'I was on morphine for two days afterwards so don't remember much about it. 'I woke up singing Avicii's So Wake Me Up When It's All Over,' she laughs. The operation, on September 19, 2013, took two and a half hours, but she was in hospital for a week. Within days, Nicole went under the knife at Charing Cross Hospital. 'It was a period in my life when I was really self-conscious about my appearance.' That took some confidence, especially became I had come off the hormones and lost my boobs and my bum. 'My first outing was in a sheer vintage YSL number. I had been running pubs my entire adult life but was scouted by Models of Diversity, who trained me to catwalk and then slung me down the catwalk at London Fashion Week.
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'It was all a bit of a whirlwind,' she says. I'd been running pubs my entire adult life but was scouted by Models of Diversity, who trained me and slung me down the catwalk at London Fashion Week.'Īfter stepping out in vintage Yves Saint Laurent at Catwalk 4 Change, a fashion show held to promote diversity, which kick-started London Fashion Week in autumn 2013, she became an overnight star. New star: Of her incredible modelling breakthrough, Nicole said: 'It was all a bit of a whirlwind.
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Nicole, who lives in a quaint cottage in the rambling countryside in Warnham, West Sussex, was not always so comfortable in her skin.īorn as a boy named Glen, she always felt an affinity with little girls, fantasising about dressing up in women's clothes and pretending she was Elizabeth Taylor in the 1976 film Blue Bird.īullied at her secondary school, Tanbridge House, where she was given the nickname 'Glenda the Bender', she eventually came out as gay when she was a student at Collyer's sixth-form college, where she studied English Literature, theatre studies and performing arts, alongside TV presenter Holly Willoughby. Never say otherwise.' That was the final nudge I needed to close the door to the past.' 'A friend of mine, who is a rugby player, said to me: 'You've got to stop calling yourself that. My passport describes my sex as Female not Trans. 'Even though I was physically a little boy, I've always felt female – my brain was that of a little girl, my soul was that of a little girl. 'I wasn't feeling overly proud of it and couldn't really relate to people like Kellie Maloney and Caitlyn Jenner, who are a lot older than me and have been men in men's worlds. Speaking for the first time since her operation, she told MailOnline: 'I don't really refer to myself as transgender now. Her transformation to a woman has been so successful, and so convincing, that Nicole claims even her sexual partners cannot tell she was born a man. She has been signed by the new agency Classic Models, joined dating website Tinder and flirts with the boys at the local rugby club, where she works as a barmaid. Now the five feet 11-inch model is living life as a woman – she is legally recognised as female on her passport and driving licence. Yet 36-year-old Nicole Gibson is not your typical Millennial model: raised as a boy, the 'Unexpected Star of London Fashion Week' had a sex change operation just days after making her modelling debut in the autumn of 2013. Her Instagram page is splattered with selfies in her lingerie, poolside pictures in bikinis, catwalk snaps in bridal gowns and images of her curled up on her bed with her dog.