Robert De Niro's Daughter Airyn Comes Out as Transgender

Robert De Niro‘s daughter simply gave a giant reveal … she’s transgender!

Airyn De Niro sat down for a current interview with Them — a web-based LGBTQ media outlet — to inform the world she’s “getting into this new identification.”

The 29-year-old says there is a distinction between being seen and being seen — claiming she’s all the time been seen however has but to be seen.

Airyn introduced up tabloid tales labeling her a “nepo child” as a result of she’s certainly one of De Niro’s 7 youngsters — she and her twin brother, Julian, are De Niro’s youngsters with actress Toukie Smith.

She says these articles have all of it incorrect … noting that her Oscar-winning dad by no means handed her a task in certainly one of his movies, nor did he ever carry her to film premieres or different trade features.

She says the legendary actor all the time needed her to seek out her path in life and attain success on her personal advantage. She admits her mother and father aren’t excellent, however thanks them for shielding her from the limelight, so she might have a considerably regular childhood.

Within the interview, Airyn additionally opened up about combating physique dysmorphia, a psychological well being situation by which somebody obsesses over flaws of their look.

She stated that rising up, she was instructed she was “too large, not skinny sufficient, not Black sufficient, not white sufficient, too female, not masculine sufficient.” She provides, “It was by no means simply, ‘You’re good, simply the best way you might be.’”

Consequently, Airyn stated she started hormone remedy final November, drawing inspiration from her mom and different Black girls.

She hopes to encourage individuals like herself — Black, queer, and in larger our bodies — who do not match the mould of being “tremendous skinny or heroin stylish.”