Ariel Nicholson

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Ariel Nicholson
Born (2001-01-23) 23 January 2001 (age 22)
New Jersey, U.S.
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Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Ariel Nicholson Murtagh [1] (born January 23, 2001) is a New York-based model, writer, and LGBT rights activist. She was the first openly transgender model to walk in a Calvin Klein presentation and the first openly transgender women on the cover of Vogue . Her writing has appeared in Perfect Magazine, amongst other publications. [2]

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Early life

Nicholson was born and raised in New Jersey. [3]

At an early age, she told her parents that she did not "belong as a boy" and, in fifth grade, began using female pronouns and taking Lupron to suppress the effects of male puberty. [1] She was also seeing a therapist from the Ackerman Institute for the Family at the time. [1] When she was in eighth grade she was featured in the PBS documentary Growing Up Trans, where she talked about her decision to go on estradiol. [1] [4]

Work

While she was a high school student, Nicholson signed with DNA Model Management. [5] [6] She was chosen by Raf Simons to walk for Calvin Klein's 2018 Spring/Summer fashion show, making her modelling debut. [1] [7] [8] She was the first transgender woman to walk in a Calvin Klein fashion show. Nicholson has since appeared in Calvin Klein advertisement campaigns, editorials in Vogue and W , and has walked in runway shows for Marc Jacobs and Miu Miu. [1] [7] She was photographed by Mert & Marcys for the cover of Love's anniversary issue. [1] [9]

She was featured on the September 2020 cover of Italian Vogue . [7]

In October 2020, Nicholson was featured in V Magazine's The Thoughts Leaders issue. [10]

In 2021, Nicholson became the first openly transgender person to be featured on the cover of Vogue . [11] [12]

Activism

She volunteers with Gender & Family Project, an organization that supports transgender youth and their families. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Ariel Nicholson is part of the BoF 500". The Business of Fashion.
  2. ↑ ""Fashion is changing, and so am I." Model Ariel Nicholson's essay on finding her inner strength". Perfect˙. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  3. ↑ "Model Ariel Nicholson on art, anxiety and being an Aquarius". Dazed. February 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Growing Up Trans - Transcript". FRONTLINE. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  5. ↑ "DNA Models". www.dnamodels.com.
  6. ↑ "ARIEL NICHOLSON BY GREG HARRIS". THE LAST MAGAZINE. February 17, 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 "The Graduates: Ariel Nicholson | models.com MDX". MODELS.com.
  8. ↑ Bernstein, Jacob (September 8, 2017). "Last Night, Calvin Klein — This Morning, Algebra (Published 2017)". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ "Model, activist and writer Ariel Nicholson shares her 10 self-care tips during social distancing". LOVE. March 17, 2020.
  10. ↑ "The Thought Leaders Issue: Ariel Nicholson". V Magazine. 8 October 2020.
  11. ↑ "Ariel Nicholson is the First Out Trans Woman on the Cover of US Vogue". 10 August 2021.
  12. ↑ "Ariel Nicholson is U.S. Vogue's first transgender cover model". NBC News . 9 August 2021.
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