Model Pretends to be Trans After Backlash from Transphobic Posts
In a bizarre move, Fenty model Carissa Pinkston came out as transgender on social media after posting a number of transphobic comments. A few days later she then admitted that she was not trans and was just trying to scramble in the backlash from those comments.
Pinkston, who previously worked with Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty and Marc Jacobs, was dropped by her modelling agency after posting on Facebook that “being transgender does not make you a woman. It simply makes you transgender.”
A few days later she then posted what appeared to be a coming out message: “I wasn’t ready to come out about it yet but today I got fired and I’ve been receiving hate mail and death threats ever since so I’m being forced to tell the truth,” she wrote.
“I’m transgender. I transitioned at a very young age and I’ve lived my life as a female ever since.
“What I said about trans-women is a direct reflection of my inner insecurities as I have since come to realise that I am a woman… we all are.”
A number of her friends and fellow models quickly questioned this post, with model Aleece Wilson writing under her post: “It’s terrible and disgusting that you’re lying to thousands of people.”
“I do not believe she is transgender,” Wilson explained.
“I’ve seen baby pictures of Carissa, I’ve seen her fully naked, I’ve been around this women long enough to fully know her. We have many trans friends this conversation would have definitely been brought up.
“I’m not transphobic and I would fully support her… but she’s lying about being transgender.”
Pinkston then deleted the coming out post and replaced it with an apology: “I apologise for any transphobic remark I’ve ever made towards the trans community,” she wrote last Saturday (July 27).
“I panicked and I thought if I came out as trans that I could somehow make things better for myself but it appears I’ve only made things worse.
“I’m truly sorry. I’m only 20 and I’m human. I make mistakes but I refuse to let them define me.”
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