Robert De Niro
Daughter Airyn Comes Out As Transgender
Printed April 30, 2025 5:21 AM PDT
Robert De Niro‘s daughter simply gave an enormous reveal … she’s transgender!
Airyn De Niro sat down for a latest interview with Them — an internet 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 kids — she and her twin brother, Julian, are De Niro’s children with actress Toukie Smith.
She says these articles have all of it flawed … noting that her Oscar-winning dad by no means handed her a task in certainly one of his movies, nor did he ever convey her to film premieres or different trade capabilities.
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 good, however thanks them for shielding her from the limelight, so she may have a considerably regular childhood.
Within the interview, Airyn additionally opened up about combating physique dysmorphia, a psychological well being situation wherein somebody obsesses over flaws of their look.
She mentioned that rising up, she was informed she was “too huge, not skinny sufficient, not Black sufficient, not white sufficient, too female, not masculine sufficient.” She provides, “It was by no means simply, ‘You’re excellent, simply the way in which you’re.’”
In consequence, Airyn mentioned she started hormone remedy final November, drawing inspiration from her mom and different Black girls.
She hopes to encourage folks like herself — Black, queer, and in larger our bodies — who do not match the mildew of being “tremendous skinny or heroin stylish.”
Shifting ahead … she hopes to at some point change into a psychological well being skilled who treats “folks of shade and queer folks.”
