IN WHAT has to be the most jaw dropping transition the world has seen since Bruce became Cait, a stunning, petite woman has emerged from the hairy, overweight body of a former
US soldier.
Sona Avedian, 33, documented her incredible transition from Matthew, a 110kg US Marine, to the svelte bombshell she is today, to give inspiration to other transgender people.
Avedian’s before, during and after photographs are nothing short of remarkable and have been posted to her social media accounts under the activist hashtag#TransInspiration.
Her two-year journey saw the Afghanistan war veteran and fast food junkie shed three quarters of her body weight, undergo hormone therapy and endure series of complex medical procedures — the most straightforward of which was a boob job.
“I became 238 lbs (110kg) of sadness,” Avedian says. “I was exhausted and I could no longer hide.”
Avedian was married with a young daughter when she came out as transgender in 2012. It was a secret imposed on her more than two decades earlier, when her mother caught seven-year-old Matthew “cross-dressing” in his sister’s clothes.
“Mum told me that what I was doing was wrong. I came from a deeply religious family and they found anything outside the norm hard to tolerate,” Avedian remembers.
“I was devastated and felt so ashamed. I knew I wanted to be a girl, but society wouldn’t permit it.”
Like many before her, Avedian hid behind a mask of hyper-masculinity, joining the Marines, bulking up, bearding up and hooning around in a truck.
“I doubled down on trying to be a man by getting married and starting a family,” Avedian wrote in a first-person piece commissioned by Frock Magazine.
“I was unable to maintain my marriage through a fake identity and found myself working overseas more and more. I invested myself into over-manly hobbies like guns and drag racing.
“In 2012 I came home to try and save my marriage. But it was too late. Since the divorce was inevitable, I figured it was another chance at life.”
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