Chaz Bono First Interview: As a Man
You still look like a woman!
In Chaz Bono’s first interview since first announcing in June that he would undergo a sex change, the child of Cher and the late Sonny Bono says that after 40 years, he is finally enjoying life as a man.
Bono, formerly known as Chastity, tells Entertainment Tonight in an interview airing Thursday and Friday, that the ordeal was “a long process going back almost a decade.”
According to Bono — who first came out as gay at 18, which caused mom Cher to reportedly flip out — the most difficult step he had to take was, “finding the courage not to worry about what other people would think of me so much.”
He also says he “got clean and sober in 2004 and I couldn’t have done this before that.”
Bono has been undergoing a female-to-male sex change and gender reassignment surgery since March, and the process has already had significant physical changes on his body, which he jokes is like “literally going through puberty.”
“It lowered my voice,” he tells Entertainment Tonight. “Fat redistributes, muscle growth, hair growth, sex drive increases… I shave about once a week now.”
When it came time to have surgery to have his breasts removed, he told Entertainment Tonight that “it was a relief.”
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And he/ she is still just as fat and ugly. A trip to Jenny Craig would have been fine
Used to be such a pretty girl!
Sad, so sad. I remember seeing him/her at the end of each Sonny and Cher show during the 70s. She was so cute and in her teens, her face so resembled her mother, Cher’s face. it’s rude to say, but now she just looks like a big fat washed out cow. She came from such filthy wealth that she never had to put her mind to anything, any “real” work, or find out in life what her talents were. Unfortunately, her mind wondered so far off track and she stayed confused most her life. This is what low self-esteem does to a person. They go through life unfulfilled.
Unfortunately, from the various literature/studies I have read, a sex change doesn’t take care of the person’s unhappiness. Believe me, I am a tried and true liberal, and I firmly believe that no more than a heterosexual can change their sexual orientation, than a gay/lesbian person change theirs. It is simply a matter of genetics. That being said, it’s been pretty much proven that a sex change, while seemingly to work at first, actually just compounds the person’s unhappiness. They still don’t feel like they are who they consider themselves “to be” (whatever that may be), and still feel unsatisfied with their looks/sexuality. Which is a true shame, cuz gee…they just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for this process, untold amounts of unhappiness before (and after) and they STILL feel like something isn’t “right”. I think this issue goes far beyond what genitals one is born with - or acquire. I feel badly for the people out there who are going through such heartbreak and soul-searching, when all of that comes, years later, to the fact that they still are not comfortable in their own skin. I don’t have an answer; I don’t think anyone does, medically or psychologically (or both), yet. I cannot imagine what it would be like to wake up every day, and for 24 hours a day, day in / day out, be unhappy with what you perceive yourself to be. I think these doctors are making money off of someone else’s unhappiness, too. I wish Chastity, and all of the people out there, who are going through such a process, lots of luck; and I also wish them much luck in becoming who they perceive they should be, and to find some happiness. But I do believe that sex change operations and the other procedures have been proven not to work. I am not a very good looking person, but at least I’ve come to terms with it, and the fact that I have very little sex drive anymore (I will be 50 next year). To tell you the truth, THAT is a huge relief. I’m perfectly happy - as much as anyone can be - with just living my life, making a little bit of a contribution (I do volunteer work for the local humane society), having a job that is interesting and that I enjoy (for the most part) and am most grateful every day that I have a wonderful and loving family and circle of friends. Sorry to be so long winded; now that IS something I should change! Har!