Chaz Bono talks about his mom, Cher’s, reluctance to accept sex change.
May 18, 2011 by David · Leave a Comment
Cher has always had a really hard time accepting that her child, Chaz Bono, made the decision to undergo a sex change. Chaz told sources that he believes it is hard for his mom due to being a “generation thing” and that it wasn’t only the shock of the sex change, but also the fact that others adapted quickly to the change.
“I think she was surprised. I think she didn’t expect people to be able to handle it as well as they have,” Chaz said. “I really thought that we had come farther than I think my mom did. I think that’s probably just a generational thing.”
Chaz and longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Elia, have been engaged for a while, but put marriage plans on hold for obvious reasons, he said.
“We’ve been engaged for about two years now,” Chaz said. “So when all this stuff started happening and Jen was in grad school and I had started my transition, we had to table it for a while. So we’ll get back into it.”
Chaz Bono Opens Up About Transforming from Female to Male
April 21, 2010 by David · Leave a Comment
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Chaz Bono First Interview: As a Man
October 30, 2009 by m.coonce · 4 Comments
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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