The Dutch, author of makeup tutorials, with 12.5 million followers, responds to an attempt to blackmail
The most influential transsexuals
He has 12.5 million followers interested in his makeup techniques and secret products for daily beauty. The Dutch girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and perfect eyebrows is NikkieTutorials , although she is actually called Nikkie de Jager, and she is one of the most famous YouTube stars. Today she has been surprised shouting at the four winds her transsexuality , and her fans - which include the Dutch Government - do not stop applauding her as an example to follow.
"It's 2020 and I want to start with the truth," he begins by telling the makeup artist in his latest video, without the jokes and the usual joy that characterizes his appearances. "I am transsexual ... and I want to inspire little Nikkies with this," he says. The young woman explains that she was born "in the wrong body" and, although she acknowledges that "it is scary to film herself saying" that she is transsexual, "she feels a great liberation" while telling the world a truth that kept her audience hidden.
Start at the beginning. "As a child I never understood why I had to have short hair and wear pants," he recalls. In a description of what she felt when she was a child, she recounts how she played with the dolls, painted her nails and played with hair extensions. "All of me was a girl." When he turned six, Nikkie renewed his entire wardrobe, began wearing only girl clothes and let his hair grow.
"It sat me great. The teachers supported me a lot, some classmates understood it, and others didn't," he explains. At 14, he began his physical transition, which included the ingestion of hormones. At 19, he completed his transformation with a sexual surgery operation. In fact, when it was launched in 2008 to open its YouTube channel, it was still in the process of transition, but it barely had followers. Now she travels all over the world and is an advisor to great brands, such as Marc Jacobs Beauty , and different celebrities want to collaborate with her.
He had no plans to discuss this issue in public now, but he felt pressured after receiving blackmail from close people who knew about his personal life and threatened to filter his story to the press in exchange for money. He regrets that there are people "so unpleasant that they don't want to respect someone's true being" but, in a clear message to those who have tried to blackmail him, he makes a manga cut in the middle of his video.
"This video is really scary, but also very liberating. I wanted to share this part of me with you for a long time, but I never found the right time to do it. I'm NikkieTutorials, I'm myself, I don't need labels, I'm free enough as to follow my own path, "continued the makeup star. In their videos, seen by millions of people, they appeared famous as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian .
With her message, she says she wants to inspire others who, like her, feel "insecure, out of place, misunderstood." "Since I was born, I think I am a girl ... Everything about me was feminine. Throughout my life, I had to tell my true friends the truth about me. And that is heartbreaking," he says. Ask to "accept each other", both oneself and others. "We have to respect each other, but, above all, listen and understand each other," he says.
You have chosen your YouTube account to announce this, the same platform where you upload makeup tutorials since 2008 , full of humor and personal touches. "[The blackmailers] told me that they wanted to filter it because they thought I was lying, that I didn't want to tell my truth and that I would be too scared to show who I really am. I'm not afraid. To all the people who thought they could ruin my life: this it is for you [lifts the middle finger], "he concluded.
It is one of the most famous Dutch youtubers of the moment, and now it is even more, because its gesture is being applauded not only by the subscribers of its channel, but that the flattery is receiving them even from the ministers of its country. "You are really free if you can be who you are. The role models are of great importance for emancipation. NikkieTutorials is an example to follow. Thank you. Brave," tweeted Ingrid van Engelshoven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science .
The president of the Dutch Network of Transsexuals, Brand Berghouwer, also believes that Nikkie's gesture can be of great support to young people struggling with a similar situation and for their emancipation as transgender people because "it is important that known voices speak" in public and normally issues now sensitive. "The more famous people say they are trans, the less complicated the subject will be , " he said .
The followers of Nikkie answer his video, which he titled as "I'm dating", with many messages of love and, above all, many hearts. "I cried a lot when I heard you, I'm very happy for you," writes a young woman. "You are a true source of inspiration," publishes another fan. "You're still the same Nikkie, what you tell doesn't change who you are now," adds another fan.
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This wave of love also surprised youtuber herself. "I had many different scenarios in mind, but I never dared to dream about this," says Nikkie in an emotional update on Instagram and in response to the reactions that public recognition of her transsexuality had. "Thank you very much! I will read, absorb and process everything for the rest of the day," he says . Many celebrities also reacted to his video, such as singer Ariana Grande or actress Lena Dunham .
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