'Pretty Boy' Andrej Pejic Talks Sex, Love & Leaving His Gender to 'Artistic Interpretation'

‘Pretty Boy’ Andrej Pejic Talks Sex, Love & Leaving His Gender to ‘Artistic Interpretation’ AOC Sensually Yours

We learn that Andrej calls his transsexual, gender-bending reality ‘the situation’. 

‘I don’t feel the need to explain myself,” says Pejic, who has nicknamed his androgyny and its concomitant confusion “the situation,’ as in ‘they didn’t notice the situation’ or ‘the Japanese just loved the whole situation’ or ’ like having a level of mystery to this whole situation.’

‘In this society, if a man is called a woman, that’s the biggest insult he could get.’ He (Andrej) arches his eyebrows skeptically and asks, ‘Is that because women are considered something less?’ Later, he tells me, ‘I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, ‘I’m a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.’ But, you know, to me, it doesn’t really matter. I don’t really have that sort of strong gender identity—I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it’s just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.’

Giving a nod to the famous Supermodels, Andrej makes it clear that he doesn’t get out of bed for $50 a day.

‘I don’t get out of bed for less than $50 a day,’ he deadpanned. ‘I want to make that clear to America. This is a new age of androgynous supermodels. We don’t get out of bed for less than $50 a day.’

Andrej is addressing the reality that although he was being shot as a woman, he was being paid men’s rates. Those days over and Andrej is no longer fashion’s best cut-rate deal.