✍ = 中文翻譯While he often wears women’s clothing and doesn’t mind when people mistake him for a girl, he has no desire to actually become one. Androgyny and cross-dressing do not make him transgendered — for that, he would have to identify as the opposite sex. Pejic still identifies as a man.
He told New York Magazine: “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.”
1.Pejic不是變性者
他經常穿著女性衣物,也不介意被誤認為女生,但這不表示他對此有任何打算。雌雄同體和異裝不代表他是跨性。-在這點上,很肯定Pejic是位男性。他告訴紐約雜誌:我知道人們希望我為自己辯護,但我就只是像這樣,"我是個男孩,有時我會化妝。"你得知道,對我來說這不重要。我沒有強烈的性別認同-我自己定義我自己。人們用這點來發展創意或利益,這像個技能,能夠用來賺錢的技能。
2. He wasn’t always so glamorous.Pejic worked at a McDonalds and cleaned toilets in a strip club.
2.生活並非總是光鮮亮麗。Pejic曾在 McDonalds打工和脫衣舞孃俱樂部當清潔員。
3. Pejic and his family are Bosnian refugees. He was born to a Serbian mother and a Croatian father. His mother fled to Serbia with her children, and they were granted refugee status to move to Melbourne, Australia, where Pejic grew up. His father stayed behind.
4. Pejic became famous for modeling a push-up bra...To demonstrate just how well their push-up bra works, Dutch retail chain HEMA hired a model without breasts — Pejic — to wear it. He wore the bra under several figure-hugging dresses.
5. ...and a wedding dress.Pejic was honored with the showpiece of the Jean Paul Gaultier womenswear show last year — he wore the designer’s see-through wedding dress. He also wore a more conventional bridal look on the cover of Out, where he was awarded “Stylemaker of the Year.”
6. His biggest problem? His shoe size.Pejic is 6-foot-1, and a women’s size two to four — but his shoe size is a women’s 11. Since it’s a rare size for women, he’s forced to squeeze his feet into a women’s size 10 to walk in shows.
7. Pejic was named the 98th sexiest woman in the world by FHM. The designation was an offensive one — macho mag FHM called him a ”thing,” and, in reference to his androgyny, said “Pass the sick bucket.” The article was later removed from FHM’s Web site.
8. His torso was censored by Barnes & Noble and Borders. When Pejic made the cover of Dossier, the bookstores made the magazine sell that issue in an opaque bag to cover up a shirtless image of the model — even though men’s chests show up on magazine covers all the time. “There's this expectation that men are masculine, and that women are feminine, and have bodies that can be recognized as female,” says Paisley Currah, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the author of the upcoming book United States of Gender, to the Daily Beast. “So Andrej, who is being presented socially as a woman, but whose body is a man, upsets those expectations. And he raises everyone's anxieties about gender as a result.”
9. He wore a skirt to meet the Queen of England.When invited to Buckingham Palace, Pejic chose a Paul Smith blazer, Issey Miyake shirt, vintage Versace pencil skirt, his mother’s belt from the ’80s, and Toni Blanco shoes. He said it was inspired by “Sharon Stone, with a little bit ’90s.” Grazia magazine called the ensemble “modest and smart, but very beautiful ... a resounding success.”
10. Pejic likes to play tricks.Joking about how Victoria’s Secret models have babies and go back to the runway with their original bodies just weeks later, Pejic jokes to New York magazine that he wanted to do the same thing, but in one day. He bought a fake pregnancy belly, but was prohibited from wearing it at a Brazilian airport. His Twitter account is full of sarcastic quips like, “I feel like Christina Aguilera is a blonde version of Snooki these days.” However, he can also get serious, often tweeting about politics and international affairs as often as he tweets about fashion.
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