Androgynous male model Andrej Pejic has said that at the beginning of his career he felt like an "immigrant worker" because he was taking jobs from female models, but after a while he felt that he proved himself and has every right to do the job:
“You do feel a little bit like an immigrant worker, but I proved myself. I don’t think I have any less right to this job than a woman. If I have the looks and the talent, why is it not fair?"
The model also admits that labels took a risk as first by hiring him because they didn't know how the public would react to him being dressed as either a man or a woman:
“It was a risk for brands to hire me to model either menswear or womenswear at first because they did not know how the market would react. There was no other gender-bending model before me who had done it.”
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Andrej says that at the age of 14 he decided to embrace the feminine side that he felt unsure about growing up, and was lucky enough to be embraced by a gang on popular girls and thus avoided any bullying that he might have encountered:
“One day, I decided I was just going to be myself. That was when I started to bleach my hair and wear skinny jeans, I was invited to all the parties. No one teased me or anything because I was with these girls. I was very lucky to have been able to avoid the bullying. I guess no one wants to punch a pretty face like this.”
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