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Robert De Niro’s 29-year outdated daughter Airyn De Niro shared her challenges and struggles in a first-ever interview with Them journal after popping out as a trans girl. “I want individuals noticed somebody who’s making an attempt their hardest to heal from rising up not feeling good about themselves. (And) within the strategy of that, making an attempt to make different individuals be ok with themselves,” Airyn shared why she selected to speak about her journey.
Airyn started hormone remedy in November 2024, and she or he has credited Black girls akin to her mother, Laverne Cox, Raven-Symone and Halle Bailey to comply with her journey. “I believe moving into this new identification, whereas additionally being extra happy with my Blackness, makes me really feel nearer to them indirectly,” she advised the publication.
“I believe a part of me is anxious that (my household) will possibly nonetheless consider me because the particular person I used to be earlier than the transition,” she confessed in the course of the interview. She additionally touched the “nepo child” debate and stated she does not match into that label.
“I wasn’t introduced up having a aspect half in one in every of Dad’s motion pictures or going to enterprise conferences or attending premieres. My dad was very huge on us discovering our personal kind of path,” she defined. “There is a distinction between being seen and being seen,” Airyn added. “I have been seen. I do not assume I have been seen but,” she stated.
Airyn stated she needs to proceed her research whereas pursuing an performing and modeling profession. “I might wish to hopefully be an inspiration for not less than one different particular person like me who’s Black, who’s queer, who’s not a measurement further small,” she declared.
Robert De Niro and his ex-partner Toukie Smith welcomed twins Julian and Airyn in 1995, and whereas co-parenting, they tried to guard their kids from the glares of media. Airyn’s identification was uncovered when a paparazzi image surfaced.
