Trans Model Makes The Cover Of Playboy Mexico For The First Time
Beauty influencer Victoria Volkova has become the first trans woman to appear on the cover of Playboy Mexico.
“Playboy Mexico is committed to the openness and diversity for which we fight daily in this country,” the magazine wrote on Instagram. “The brand has historically been singled out because pleasure is a benefit to all people, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or race.”
Volkova, 27, with more than 900,000 followers on Instagram has become an outspoken advocate for the LGBT+ community in her country.
“This cover celebrates the different ways of being a woman, the different ways of being beautiful, the different ways in which one can explore their sensuality and enjoy the process,” she said in a post announcing the cover.
Volkova said she hopes her pictorial makes people more curious about what being trans means — “more curious about how trans people live in this country and in the world and what we have to go through to live a dignified life.”
She has amassed more than 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube, where she posts makeup tutorials and chats with the Brazilian drag queen Pabllo Vittar and others. She also speaks openly about her transition and her journey to self-acceptance.
“For a long time I hated my body and hated being a trans woman, since I thought that that was what made me a less valuable person, less deserving of love, less ‘normal,’” Volkova wrote on Instagram.
Eventually, she said, she realised she had to accept herself before she could expect anyone else to.
“Embrace your imperfections and tell them thank you for making you so unique and so different,” she said. When you do, “you learn that your biggest difference, why people teased you at school, is what years later will make you stand out from the rest.”
According to ‘NBC News’, Volkova joins Roberta Close, Caroline ‘Tula’ Cossey, Giuliana Farfalla and Geena Rocero as trans women who have appeared in various editions of Playboy. In November 2017, the French model Ines Rau became the first openly trans Playboy Playmate.
“The femininity and womanhood of transgender women is always being brought into question,” said Rocero, a 2020 Playmate of the Year. “Appearing in Playboy says we're enough, that we get to own our sexuality and our self-expression.”
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