'It's nice to be valued for more than my face': Transgender model Andreja Pejic reveals she is now focussing on her acting career after debut film
Model Andreja Pejic has set her sights on acting, after her debut movie was released last year.
The 28-year-old starred as Sofia in The Girl in the Spider's Web, and she says that she felt 'valued' on set.
She told The Daily Telegraph on Monday: 'It's nice to be valued for something more than my face'.
Making moves: Transgender model Andreja Pejic (pictured in 2019) has revealed she is now focussing on a film career
The beauty added that acting is now her main focus over modelling and she hopes to continue a film career.
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Andreja told the publication: 'I'm having more fun with acting, it's stimulating me more'.
Speaking to Vogue Britain last year, the model revealed how well she was treated on the film's set in Berlin.
Action! The 28-year-old starred as Sofia in The Girl in the Spider's Web (pictured) last year, and says that she felt 'valued' on set
She said: 'I had a trailer, I had an assistant, I got the choice between warm clothes or light clothes.
'I got offered tea, blankets, hand-warmers. I've shot swimwear on a beach in winter and not been offered a towel!' she added.
The transgender star also told the magazine that acting became a therapeutic outlet for her when her career stalled.
She told The Daily Telegraph on Monday: 'It's nice to be valued for something more than my face. I'm having more fun with acting, it's stimulating me more'
'My modelling career took a dip and I felt I was losing everything,' she said, adding that acting helped her process feelings about her gender transition and fleeing her homeland as a child.
'I started taking acting classes to open me up emotionally at a very low point in my life, and it ended up being something I could channel my trauma,' she said.
Andreja's life has been far from ordinary, having arrived in Australia from war-torn Serbia in 2000, when she was just eight-years-old.
Speaking to Vogue Britain, the model revealed how well she was treated on the film's set in Berlin. 'I had a trailer, I had an assistant. I got offered tea, blankets, hand-warmers. I've shot swimwear on a beach in winter and not been offered a towel!' she said
She had fled with her mother and older brother Igor Pejić to Melbourne, after having been accepted for immigration into Australia as political refugees.
Life turned around for the beauty when at the age of 16, Andreja was scouted by a modelling agent when working at a local McDonald's.
She became the first androgynous supermodel before coming out as a transgender woman in 2013.
Making history: Andreja became the first androgynous supermodel before coming out as a transgender woman in 2013. Pictured as 2013
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