YouTuber Gigi Gorgeous Opens Up About Pregnancy as a Transgender Woman in Emotional Video

JEN JUNEAU August 28, 2018 03:45 PM

Gigi Gorgeous is thinking about starting a family — but the process has been an emotional one.

The popular beauty vlogger, 26, opened up on her YouTube channel recently about how she and fiancée Nats Getty want to add a baby to their family in the near future, and chronicled the related struggles she has faced as a transgender woman.

“It’s finally time I talk about this and face my fears and just open up,” she says near the beginning of the video, explaining that it has been a “touchy subject” for her and something she has been wanting to share with her viewers for a while.

“I feel like it’s a natural progression for two people in love to talk about having children and taking that next step in creating a family,” Gigi adds. “I’ve always wanted to get married. I’ve always wanted to have kids and have a family, but I never actually thought that it would happen for me and now that I’m here, it’s kind of like … f—.”

“We always talk about having kids and we’ve even taken some steps to have them, and I am too scared to follow through,” she admits.

“This is something I don’t like talking about for many reasons, but the main one being I feel really, really, really embarrassed.”

Noting her sympathy for women who were born with female reproductive organs and have issues conceiving or keeping a pregnancy, the beauty guru continues, “For me, being trans, it’s not even a possibility to get pregnant. I wasn’t born with a uterus or a vagina or any of those working parts that gives you a babushka.”

“I can’t give birth to my own child, we know that,” Gigi says, admitting she feels “inferior” to women who can. “But it’s still embarrassing to me, and that’s just how I feel. It’s a sensitive subject. I feel as much if not more so than a genetic woman, and that’s not comparing — that’s how I felt even before I came out as transgender.”

“It’s such an unfair thing to me … some days I just get so frustrated and just so angry that I can’t just go through that,” she continues. “Childbirth and being pregnant is something that I’ve always wanted. I feel like you feel the most feminine, you look the most feminine. Your baby is yours, it has your DNA. … It’s everything that I want and it’s everything that I want for my relationship with Nats.”