The fashion industry often receives criticism for its lack of diversity. While she was rejected the first year she auditioned, this year, she made the cut. But her sights were set on going global, and walking India’s premiere fashion week became the next big step. In 2010 she was cast to walk for Nepalese designer Subexya Bhadel and made her catwalk debut. I knew someone, somewhere will give me an opportunity.” “But I remembered what my mother told me about not giving up, and moving forward. He said it is because I am transgender,” she says.
“I asked my agency why I wasn’t getting jobs. “I realized I’m not the only one, this is my society,” she says.įrom 'cow' to cover girl, model Winnie Harlow is changing beauty standards I thought to myself, ‘I’m like this too.’” Inspired by her discovery, Lama reached out to a group of transgender people, eventually stumbling upon Blue Diamond Society – a group in Nepal which advocates for sexual minorities. “While I was living in Kathmandu, I was watching television and stumbled upon a show about transgender people. They said I made the customers uncomfortable,” she tells CNN.Ī chance encounter, however, changed everything. “I was there for college but worked at a hotel and was fired because of my feminine behavior. She describes this period now as “mental torture.” The kids at school used to mock me and say ‘he’s a girl.’ Then at home, my father would scold me, asking ‘what will you do with your life?’” At the age of 18, Lama moved to Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, where her struggle with gender identity continued. “I enjoyed wearing women’s clothing, and at school I mostly had female friends.
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