In 2014 the former boxing promoter revealed she was having gender reassignment surgery, went into the Big Brother house – and gained her family’s acceptance
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It’s unlikely that 2014 will ever merge in Kellie Maloney’s memory into the general blur of passing years. When it began, she was known to the world as the pugnacious boxing promoter Frank Maloney, ex-manager of the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Lennox Lewis.
As the months went by she was subject to a tabloid exposé as transsexual, which she fought off with an injunction, came clean to another newspaper about the process of gender reassignment she was undergoing, appeared in Celebrity Big Brother as Kellie, and almost died last month during cosmetic surgery in Belgium that left her bleeding from the eyes and with a massively swollen head. She finishes the year in preparation for a final double operation of genital reassignment and breast implants.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 16 hours ago.
· See the Observer’s faces of 2014 in full here
· Jade Etherington: ‘Slowly I began to believe that I could actually ski a bit’
It’s unlikely that 2014 will ever merge in Kellie Maloney’s memory into the general blur of passing years. When it began, she was known to the world as the pugnacious boxing promoter Frank Maloney, ex-manager of the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Lennox Lewis.
As the months went by she was subject to a tabloid exposé as transsexual, which she fought off with an injunction, came clean to another newspaper about the process of gender reassignment she was undergoing, appeared in Celebrity Big Brother as Kellie, and almost died last month during cosmetic surgery in Belgium that left her bleeding from the eyes and with a massively swollen head. She finishes the year in preparation for a final double operation of genital reassignment and breast implants.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 16 hours ago.