Andrej Pejic, the Bosnian-born supermodel headlined as the prettiest boy in the world, has told New York Magazine that he doesn’t mind whether people think he’s male or female.
Pejic has appeared on catwalks around the world in both men’s and women’s clothes and Barnes and Noble have even banned a magazine that featured him topless on the cover because they felt that he would be mistaken for a woman.
In an interview with New York Magazine he said, “In this society, if a man is called a woman, that’s the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less? I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, ‘I’m a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.’ But, you know, to me, it doesn’t really matter. I don’t really have that sort of strong gender identity – I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it’s just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.”
Pejic continued, “It’s not like, ‘OK, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman,’ I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.”
To read the whole interview and view a behind-the-scenes video of the New York Magazine fall fashion cover shoot go to nymag.com/fashion/11/fall/andrej-pejic.
