Robert De Niro’s Daughter Breaks Silence on Her Transgender Journey in Emotional Interview
Among the issues she had with the article, she said the title of “nepo baby” didn’t sit well with her.
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Her parents raised her away from the limelight and the glitz of Hollywood.
“I wasn’t brought up having a side part in one of dad’s movies or going to business meetings or attending premieres,” Airyn said, noting that her father was “very big” on them finding their “own sort of path.”
“I would want [success] to happen on my own merit,” the aspiring model and voice actor said
As she recalled her childhood in New York City, she said her family accepted her queerness. But her peers and schoolmates would ridicule her for her body, her femininity, and her biracial identity.
“I always grew up a bigger-bodied person,” she told the magazine. “Everybody else in the family [was] relatively thin or fit; I was not, so I sort of stood out like a sore thumb and there wasn’t anybody in my family that could relate to that experience.”
Being gay in high school also exposed her to the racism and body-shaming attitude within the gay community as well.
“[Gay men were] ruthless and mean. I didn’t even fit that beauty standard, which is thin, white, muscular, or just super fit, masculine,” said Airyn.
“I was always told I was too much of something or not enough of something growing up: Too big, not skinny enough,” she continued. “Not Black enough, not white enough. Too feminine, not masculine enough. It was never just, ‘You’re just right, just the way you are.’”
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