She made her debut as Stella in the third season of OITNB, and now Ruby Rose has made a name for herself in creating awareness and discussion in gender fluidity.
The actress, who made a short film Break Free, documented the struggles facing transsexual people in a clip now viewed more than nine million times.
Speaking to Access Hollywood, the 29-year old, revealed that her gender issues started from an early age, recalling the time her father was approached in a restaurant when she was a child:
“I was in a restaurant and the waiter came up and he was talking to my dad and he was like ‘we’re trying to work out is she a beautiful girl or a handsome boy?’. And my dad went to be like ‘she’s a beautiful…’ and I was like… ‘I don’t know!’. You know I remember thinking about it and being like I’m a handsome boy and for the most part of my life I wanted to be a boy.”
The Australian actress, who started saving for gender reassignment surgery at the age of five, later chose as a teen she didn’t want to transition.
Rose says that aged 15, she “just wanted to feel comfortable in her own skin”:
“It wasn’t until much later in life that I realised I could kind of do both and be androgynous and not have to necessarily be womanly.”
The actress is currently engaged to Roald Dahl’s granddaughter, British fashion designer Phoebe Dahl.
