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Chaz Bono Tells Oprah About Transition To Becoming A Man
Posted on Tue May 10, 2011 08:50 AM PDT
Harpo
Chaz Bono, formerly Chastity Bono, opened up to Oprah Monday about his physical transition from woman to man.
Chaz, 42, is the child of Cher and the late Sonny Bono. He describes going through puberty as an adolescent and hating his body as it grew into a more womanly shape. "I felt like my body was betraying me," he said.
- "It was just horrifying to me. You have this image of yourself and all of a sudden your body does the exact opposite of what you feel."
Chaz said he first decided to become a lesbian -- a label that "worked for a little while." But, Chaz said he eventually realized that being a woman who was attracted to women was not his reality.
- "I always had this idea that, sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that. But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community. Then I started to realize, no, that isn't what a lesbian is at all. That's what being transgender is."
Chaz also talked about how parents react to transgender children.
- "This is an incredibly difficult process for parents, the truth is that a lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again."
So how did his very famous mother react? Read how Cher felt after the jump.
Chaz says Cher, 64, always made it clear that she loved him no matter what. "There's no doubt about her love for me," he said. Chaz also said Cher was "unbelievably cool" about his sex change process (which included breast removal surgery but no work on his genitalia.)
However, Cher did get hesitant when she first started to see the effects of testosterone injections. "When my voice started to change, I think, is when it really hit her," Chaz said. Being in the public eye throughout the process didn't help.
- "The hard thing for my mom, I think, is that because she's a public figure and because she has this personality of kind of being so cool about stuff and progressive, people forget that she's a parent."
The documentary Becoming Chaz, about Chaz's transition, premieres on OWN Tuesday. Chaz is still with his girlfriend, Jennifer Elia, whom he began dating in 2005 and has stood by his side throughout the transition.
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Comments
FREAK
Isn't Cher's other son gay?
Great job, mom.
That is one confused (in)human specimen.
Ye saints preserve us.
Hard to imagine that the cute blonde girl with curls turned into THAT thing.
It's never a good thing to expose your little kids to the weird and gender confused side of Hollywood.
D I S G U S T I N G
OMG
She is still a woman,no matter how she tries to twist the facts,SHE IS STILL A WOMAN,and a ugly one as well....
Dear God. Sonny must be spinning in his grave.
Chaz is still a human with a. Beating heart. It's crazy how many people hate for no reason at all. This man didn't topple the world trade centre. Save your nasty feelings for people that deserve it...oh yeah...grow up !
since when telling the truth is being hateful...you have to call like it is, this WOMAN is mentally perturbed and needs help, now, we can't only imagine but see what being raised by Cher(freaking nature herself) did to her children...
people need to stop referring to that thing as HE... it aint a MAN! that thing was born a woman and decided to mutilate itself.. thats it.. you can put a tuxedo on a pig but its still a pig..
She was a cute little girl now look at it...sad.
Small di*k or giant clit?
Mind your own business, losers. It's his business what he wants to be.
He is simply sharing what it's been like for him. You don't need to understand, or accept, just don't watch if it bothers you.
Look up the meaning of perturbed...stupid, stupid people. I hope your children don't disappoint you one day....
you are so strong chaz! I admire you for doing something so difficult! God bless you! You only have one life to live!
I admire Chaz's courage. Now he needs to lay down the pizza, as well as get to a gym and get in shape so he can live a long, healthy life in his true skin.
it just goes to show how crule the world is with your nasty remarks everyone has a chioice so mind your own bussiness chazo is abetter person then your eber bee so get a life and please growup
it just goes to show how crule the world is with your nasty remarks everyone has a chioice so mind your own bussiness chazo is abetter person then your eber bee so get a life and please growup
you are discriminateing which is a serious crime you remmeber god says love is kind which you lot are not what goes around comes around you are a bunch of idiots that need to realy grow up or go back to school and id just like to say one love to chazoxxx ps you all need reporting as your not human
you lot dont deserve to comment on this page as it is discrimination ehich is a crime so stop your insuts stop being hater because you live a sad life you are not human and you all need reporting