• Jackie Green, 19, was born a boy named Jack
  • After seven attempts to kill herself and two years on suicide watch her parents let her become a girl
  • On her 16th birthday she became the youngest person in the world to have a gender reassignment surgery
Many little girls dream of growing up to be someone like Jackie Green. An aspiring model, the 19-year-old’s cascading chestnut hair, porcelain complexion and aquiline nose are reminiscent of a  pre-Raphaelite muse, or maybe one of the Downton actresses.
Today, the former Miss England finalist is dressed in this season’s Seventies-style prints and a statement necklace. ‘Topshop,’ she smiles when I ask about the designer.
Her adoring boyfriend of two years, also 19, is with her when we meet at a gastropub in North  London – and she exudes confidence, which no doubt helps in her job as a hostess at the Burberry store in Bond Street. Yet the road to becoming the self-assured young woman she is today has not been easy – for Jackie was born male.

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