With MTV's 'Ex on the Beach' in full swing, many fans of the courting competition display are wondering whether or not contestant La Demi Martinez is a man or lady. Plus, tips on how to observe La Demi on Instagram.
Season Four of Ex on the Beach has enthusiasts on their ft, and not simply because the MTV courting competition sequence has left at the back of the sunny beaches of California in want of a New Zealand wintry weather wonderland.
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In reality, that is rarely the only alternate to rock the international of this competition. This season has expanded its geographic frontiers and has also invited trans and non-binary contestants to participate.
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La Demi Martinez were given her reality debut on 'Botched'
While she's introduced on the show as a Glam Masters alum, where she appeared as a beauty influencer, Screen Rant notes that La Demi's reality television debut if truth be told came a bit earlier, on Botched.
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"I had the wonderful chance in early 2018 of working with Laverne Cox on Glam Masters," La Demi mentioned in an interview with Newsweek. "I've always felt she has been a great advocate of transgender youth, transgender women and everything to do with the LGBTQ+ community. She really stood her ground and is a great role model."
The Ex on the Beach contestant initially seemed on Botched after internet trolls berated La Demi for looking like a man. "They said 'you're so manly,' 'your chin gives you away,' 'get it fixed,'" she instructed Newsweek. "I believe my main goal is to continue inspiring individuals around the world that feel they need to look a certain way to feel a certain way," she shared.
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"I want to continue putting out that message of being yourself," she added. The makeup character and social media attractiveness influencer now boasts 119k followers on Instagram and just about 40k followers on YouTube, the place she first got here out.
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La Demi came out as trans on YouTube in 2016.
When La Demi got the call that her father passed away, it made her realize "how short life is," and changed her outlook and standpoint. "I had never talked to my dad about being transgender, I had never talked to my dad about being gay," she stocks candidly on this video that is now been considered over 15,000 instances.
"He would question me," she persevered, "and I lied because I was scared." La Demi made the brave decision to attend her father's funeral as herself, La Demi. "It was my first time revealing myself to my entire family, to him," she continues in the emotional video.
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"I was wearing a really long black gown, red lipstick, eye shadow, everything," and La Demi burst into tears together with her late father at her facet to "let it all out."
Her circle of relatives cried along her, she recollects. "I realized that everyone was crying out of joy and not hate and I just [wished] I'd done it so much earlier when he was still alive because everyone welcomed me with arms wide open."
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That mentioned, La Demi wants other folks to let cross of the pressure of coming out. "You don't have to label things," she bravely states in the video. "It's nobody's business what you are, who you are, transgender, gay, LGBT, whatever you may be."
"I think I spent so long beating around the bush, trying to figure out this label to put on myself that I was stressing myself out," she adds.
Now, she's shining vibrant enough for the complete world to see. Watch Ex on the Beach on Thursdays at Nine p.m. ET on MTV.
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