You may know Geena Rocero from her 2014 TED Talk, her modeling career, her unflagging trans advocacy, or any combination of the above—but you’re guaranteed to feel like you’ve seen a whole new side of her after you finish 'Horse Barbie,' her debut memoir.
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You might know Geena Rocero from her 2014 TED Talk, her long modeling career, her unflagging trans advocacy, or any combination of the above—but you’re guaranteed to feel like you’ve seen a whole new side of her after you finish, her debut memoir. The book chronicles Rocero’s journey from winning trans beauty pageants in the Philippines to working as a model in the US while “stealth” , telling the story of one woman’s life with enough heart and candor to make it accessible to all.
I think in 2015, when I started a production company called Gender Proud. That’s when I started thinking,and that was the beginning of the idea to write a book. Since 2015, I’ve just been collecting stories, whether on a notepad or in my Notes app; whenever there’s a story that I know will be a pivotal moment in my life, I write it down. I also started reading a lot of memoirs, and just before the pandemic, my team was like, “It’s time to write a book.
I was so fascinated by the parts of your book that discuss working in the fashion industry as a model before publicly coming out as trans. How does it feel to be looking back on that journey now? When it comes to the modeling part, when I was first sitting down and writing the book, the first thing I asked myself was,I decided to tackle the most difficult and complicated of many triggering moments in my life, which is the time when I was modeling and living this dual reality and having to calculate everything that I was saying, because, you know, I chose a career that is all about being visible and front-and-center.
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