Isis King was born born October 1, 1985, a famous model, actress and fashion designer of American. People who know the TV show America's Next Top Model may very clear that Isis was the contestant on its eleventh and the seventeenth cycle. More importantly, she was the first transgender woman in this reality show. She got a lot of attention from the society by attending the reality show. Now, she is one of the most popular transgender women in American.
In fact, Isis's modeling career started seven years before participating in the reality show America's Next Top Model. She also attended underground ball culture scene in the early years. In an interview for ANTM, Isis said that she hope some progress, because she had been working slowly for more than seven years. After that, she attended Amore Fashion Show, Howard University Fashion Show and more. As what she said, she received an award for Images Fashion. Before becoming a model, she has worked as a receptionist and program assistant at hair salon. Her work experience is more colorful than most of people.
Isis is one of transgender women who is try her best to change the living situation for the tranny date community. As an actress and television person, Isis appears in more and more TV shows and films. She was called "unprecedented opportunity" by Neil Giuliano, the president of GLAAD. In fact, it was an unprecedented opportunity for both Isis and GLAAD. By competing in the reality show, the whole national and prime time started to pay attention to ts dating community and transition issue. All these owe to Isis's efforts in the show. She also got attentions from New York magazine. She was called King the cause célèbre of Cycle 11 by New York magazine, and was compared with former contestant. Ken Mok, the producer of ANTM stated that aim and the mission of the show was to redefine beauty, and Isis is another kind of beauty. In the reality show, all contestants living together to increase intimacy.
They need to be faced with their opponents and phobias at the same time. Different people hols different opinions on this TV show. No matter you are a supporter or not, this TV show open the door for everyone to know more about transgender community. Some opponents of Isis revealed discrimination and prejudice about transgender people in the show, and there were also many people made comments on her. Some people even referred to Isis as he, drag queen and other pronouns. Unlike other transgender women, Isis is open and optimistic. She shared her transition process with her followers in the show. Be equally famous as top models such as Teri Toye, former club kid Amanda Lepore, and model André J,New York magazine also noted Isis as one of the most influential transgender model in history. As a successful transgender model, Isis has already been accepted by the whole society, while transgender issue is still a serious problem that need to be solved.