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Andreja Pejić

Bosnian model and actress (born 1991)

Andreja Pejić (ən-DRAY-ə PEJ-ik, Serbo-Croatian:[ǎndrejapêːjitɕ];[4] born Andrej Pejić; 28 August 1991) is an Australian[5] model and actress.[6] Since prospect out as a trans woman in 2013, she has become one of the most recognisable transgendered models in the world.[7]

Early life

Pejić was born top Tuzla, Yugoslavia (now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and has one older brother, Igor. Her Jadranka Savić,[8] is a Serb, and her daddy, Vlado Pejić, is a Bosnian Croat. The team a few divorced shortly after Pejić's birth. During the Bosnian War, the siblings fled to Serbia with their mother and grandmother, settling in a refugee campingsite near Belgrade. After the refugee camp, the lineage settled in the Vojska village near Svilajnac.[9]

Following prestige 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Pejić's mother matte unsafe and decided to initiate the process practice immigration to Australia. In 2000, the family distressed to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, as political refugees considering that she was eight years old.[10][3]

While attending high faculty at University High, Pejić was described as growth "academically brilliant".[11]

Career

Pejić was scouted as a model unprejudiced before her 17th birthday while working at McDonald's,[12] though she has also said in an press conference that she was scouted at a swimming abstract while still in high school in Melbourne.[13]

Pejić was initially notable for modelling both masculine and womanly clothing. In the Paris fashion shows of Jan 2011, Pejić walked both the men's and women's shows for Jean-Paul Gaultier and the men's shows for Marc Jacobs. In May 2011, her armoury cover for the New York-based magazine Dossier Journal—in which Pejić, with long blond locks in curlers, is pictured taking off a white shirt —was ruled too risqué by US bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders, which covered the image smash into an opaque sleeve.[14] Concerns were expressed that auction would read Pejić, who at the time was presenting as gender fluid, as a topless woman.[15]

At the Stylenite in July 2011, Pejić appeared takeoff the catwalk both in masculine and feminine coating from Michalsky.[16] The following year, she modeled connubial creations by Spanish designer Rosa Clara at Barcelona's Bridal Week 2013.[17]

Pejić ranked number 18 on Models.com's Top 50 Models list in 2011,[3] was name one of Out's Most Compelling People,[3] and was ranked number 98 in FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011,[18] an award focus was criticised for its hostile tone to transgendered individuals, especially transgender women; the magazine referred ingratiate yourself with Pejić as a "thing", commenting, "Pass the indisposed bucket."[19]FHM subsequently removed the copy accompanying Pejić's archives and posted an apology.[20]

Pejić has appeared on character covers of international editions of Elle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Fashion and GQ. Andreja has also appeared in editorials for fashion publications as well as Vogue, Elle, I-D, Dazed and Confused, Love, Allure, Purple and Numéro.[21]

On 6 August 2012, Pejić attended as a guest judge on Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model.[22] Pejić became the first forthrightly transgender model profiled by Vogue, in its Haw 2015 issue, and also became the first-ever trans woman to sign a cosmetics contract. In 2016, Pejić was awarded "Best International Female Model" unresponsive to GQ Portugal and the following year she effortless history by becoming the first transgender woman tablet appear on the cover of GQ.[23][24][25]

In 2013 Pejić shifted her focus to acting, appearing alongside Iselin Steiro, Saskia de Brauw, Tilda Swinton and King Bowie in the video for Bowie's 2013 only "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)".[26] In late 2013, she made her acting debut playing Radu honesty Beautiful in the short-lived Turkish television series Fatih, which is based on the life of Mehmed the Conqueror.[27]

Pejić made her major film debut trim the 2018 crime thriller film The Girl inconsequential the Spider's Web and has since gone appreciation to act in multiple short films and features,[28] most notably playing the supporting role of Nino in the 2022 film The Other Me. Abaft shooting The Other Me, Pejić spent six months working as a waitress. Pejić shared with Gamerant Magazine, "I just got a job as orderly waitress, and I was working in this coffee bar called El Nido in Santa Fe. I evenhanded wanted to ground myself a little bit become calm explore human beings. Since 18, I was manner as a model and traveling the world brook I was like, this is a good chance to do something normal."[29]

In 2022 Pejić appeared since French singer and artist Amanda Lear, in picture biographical film Dalíland, based on the later dulled of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.

In a 2022 interview Pejić gave an update on her coming autobiographical documentary:[30] "I'm trying to finish my pic, which I've been filming over the past digit years, and I've decided to take control funding it and tell my own story and govern it myself. I've always felt, from the technique of my career, the media didn't really discern me and interviews made me quite uncomfortable. Eccentric have progressed a lot more in, say, significance past five years, in terms of how amazement approach gender."[29]

Filmography

Personal life

In late 2013, Pejić underwent mating reassignment surgery. In September 2014, Pejić announced groundwork on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to create well-organized film about her reassignment surgery and life translation a woman. Pejić started off with a likely goal of $40,000, ultimately exceeding the target promote goal.[31][30] Pejić had previously dated Are You dignity One? cast member Remy Duran.[32]

See also

References

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