New fashion star, the model pretended to be a transgender

Carissa Pinkston says she is ready to take responsibility. The 20-year-old girl, fashion model especially since she posed for Marc Jacobs and Rihanna's brand, Fenty fashion, is in full scandal. The American has just admitted to lying about the fact that she was transgender. It all started after she posted social media messages in May that were hateful to the transgender community. "Being transgender does not make you a woman. It only makes you a transgender "," In a purely biological context, there are women and men, "she wrote.

Her comments quickly made users react and faced with the magnitude of this story, she was fired from her modeling agency. In June, she took the pen to defend herself, saying she made these statements to mask her own insecurity, claiming to be herself a transgender. "I was not ready to come out, I was fired after receiving death threats and hate messages, so I have to tell the truth. I am transgender, "reads in this text which has since been deleted. She even said that she "started her transition at a very young age, living her life as a woman since that day. It was very difficult to keep the secret but what I said about transgender women is only a reflection of my own insecurity and I have since realized that I am a woman … We are all, "continued -she.

"I knew 100% that she was lying"

But former colleagues of hers reacted immediately to warn her community, saying she was lying. "I saw pictures of her baby, I saw her completely naked, I have been dating this woman long enough to know her. We have a lot of trans friends so this conversation could have been one day, "said Aleece Wilson, a model who collaborated with Carissa Pinkston in a campaign for Nike. It was finally a high school friend, Cecelia Jinks, who officially alerted users and the Twitter account of the brand Fenty. "I checked with all of our friends and those who have known her for years, and I knew 100% that she was lying, I was horrified," she told Buzzfeed News. Not just because she lied about something so sensitive for so many people, but also because she did so to cover up a mistake after her transphobic comments about networks. "

Finally, Carissa Pinkston acknowledged her lie. On Instagram, she said she had "panicked after what she said." "I'm sorry, I'm 20 years old and I'm human. I make mistakes but I do not want them to define me. I hope you all forgive me because I'm so much more than that, "she said. Asked by Buzzfeed, Carissa Pinkston said he did not lie to cover his transphobic messages, but to defend himself against the threat of death. "I was scared, I thought that the only way for them to accept me would be for me to be trans." "I totally understand, but people do not know the whole story," she said. Everyone said that my original comment was transphobic, but you can not expect everyone to know everything about a culture or movement if they have never taken the time to be fully informed. . I am definitely not transphobic.

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