World-famous beauty blogger Nikkie Tutorials admitted she was once a man, but even her boyfriend didn't know. How is that possible?

Answered by intimate plastic surgery specialist Andrey Ganuschak.

The blogosphere around the world has been shaken by a statement from one of the most influential make-up artists in the world. The beautiful girl with perfect makeup turned out to be… a man, in the past. According to the girl, even her boyfriend did not know about it. Fans believed her, but others suspected something was wrong and accused the girl of trying to "hype up" attention. The main complaint of critics: how could her partner not have known about it?! We asked a doctor, a specialist in intimate plastic surgery, how this could be.

What happened?

The popular 25-year-old blogger NikkieTutorials (real name Nikki de Jager), who had been filming for her YouTube channel for 10 years, came out: she told her 13-million-strong audience that she was born a boy.

According to the girl, she never felt like a boy from early childhood, and at age 8 her mother allowed her to wear women's clothing. A little later Nikki began taking hormone medication, and at 19 she had her final gender reassignment surgery.

The audience was shocked, since many had not suspected such a turn of events. Nikki explained her long silence by saying she had waited a long time for the right moment to tell her story. However, unknown people began blackmailing her with exposure, so the blogger decided to get ahead of them.

In the comments, fans supported Nikki's revelations, while others wondered how it happened that her fiancé knew nothing, yet proposed to her in August 2019?

Has medicine really advanced so far that a person can transform from a man into a woman and their partner won't suspect anything?

We spoke with a doctor, a specialist in intimate plastic surgery, Andrey Ganuschak.

Andrey Ganuschak,
specialist in intimate plastic surgery

Such operations are performed around the world, especially in Thailand. But making them barely visible is very difficult. Either the surgeon who operated on her did truly amazing work, or she is deceiving people. It is hard to say. One needs to see her and examine her to give any professional assessment. If we are talking not about the genitals, but about whether this could be a transgender person, then yes, it can be said. Given hormone medication and her behavior, all of this can be concealed. Plus hair removal and so on. But regarding gender reassignment surgery, so that it would be unnoticeable, one cannot say definitively yes or no. Only after examining the person.

Ekaterina Tkacheva, TK Media