Brave New Girls

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Brave New Girls
Starring Jenna Talackova
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Production companyPeacock Alley Entertainment
Release
Original network E! Canada
Original release19 January 2014 (2014-01-19) 
present

Brave New Girls is a Canadian television reality series, which premiered on E! Canada on January 19, 2014. [1]

The series stars Jenna Talackova, a trans woman who became a media figure in 2012 when she waged a successful legal battle to be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada beauty pageant, as she moves to Toronto to establish a career as a model. [1] It also depicts Talackova's interactions with her two closest friends in the city, her cousin Angela Perry and her Miss Universe co-contestant Dajana Radovanovic, [1] as well as following her experiences on the dating scene [2] and undertaking several trips to cities in the United States in pursuit of modelling work. [3]

Produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment, the series was filmed in the summer and fall 2013. [2] After completing filming, Talackova took a vacation in South Korea, [2] and continues to balance her career aspirations as a model with her studies in holistic nutrition. [2]

Talackova had been offered several reality show deals, both in Canada and the United States, [3] but rejected the other offers for being overly sensationalist about her transgender identity. [3] One of the offers she rejected was a Bachelorette -style dating game show in which her transgender status would have been revealed to the winning contestant as a "shock twist" at the end of the series. [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Transgendered model shines; A Star is Born". The Province , January 15, 2014.
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