A transgender model has fallen victim to vile trolls after revealing her plans to undergo a womb transplant.
Talulah-Eve Brown, who was the first transgender contestant to appear on Britain’s Next Top Model, has received countless comments on Instagram after sharing her intention to carry her own child.
The 23-year-old, who underwent full gender reassignment surgery after filming had wrapped up last year, was branded a ‘mutant monster’ and ‘mentally ill’.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Talulah-Eve, who recently landed a fashion campaign with Forever Unique, admitted she has been left ‘upset’ by the online abuse and worried it might put off other people who were considering transitioning.
Abuse: Talulah-Eve Brown, who was the first transgender contestant to appear on Britain’s Next Top Model, has been trolled Instagram after sharing her plans to carry her own child
One cruel troll branded her a ‘kid’s worst nightmare’ while another wrote: ‘Man who is mentally ill froze HIS sperms to have his own children after transition’.
Talulah-Eve, who was born a boy named Aaron, had her sperm frozen before her reassignment surgery so any children she has will be biologically hers.
The womb transplant procedure, which has been trialled in women in Sweden, would allow her to carry and give birth to the child herself.
Speaking about the abuse she’s received, the 5ft 8in beauty queen, from Burton-on-Trent, told MailOnline: ‘Why are people so angry and hateful? What have I done that’s so bad? The trolls treat me like I’ve killed somebody. I just want to have a child, what’s so wrong with that?’
Admitting that she felt ‘singled out’, Talulah-Eve added: ‘Trolls are usually so quick to make comments regarding my own mental stability. In what way are they qualified to determine whether I’m mentally ill or not?
‘I’m more upset for those who may have started their transition, or know they’re trans but too scared to start transitioning, because of these comments. I would hate for them to believe these trolls are representative of wider society.’
Cruel: Since revealing plans to undergo a womb transplant, the model has received countless comments on Instagram after sharing her plans to carry her own child
Talulah-Eve dreamed of being the first-ever transgender winner of BNTM, but her dreams were crushed when she was booted off the show in April.
The outspoken model was eliminated by judges in dramatic scenes – and later told MailOnline she felt she’d had to ‘work harder’ than her fellow contestants.
‘There were times when I really envied them and thought, I wish I could wear those leggings without a bulge,’ she said. ‘But I tried not to let that show.
‘I had to work a lot harder. And I felt that pressure sometimes. And I had to think hard about the way I was coming across because I was representing a whole community. It was a tough job. But I think I’ve done okay.’
Making history: Talulah-Eve dreamed of being the first-ever transgender winner of BNTM, but her dreams were crushed when she was booted off the show in April
Talulah-Eve (back row, third left) said her fellow contestants vying for a modelling contract had no idea she was transgender when they completed their first task, a swimwear shoot
Could womb transplants be coming to the UK?
Since 2014, at least five babies have been born to womb-less women after receiving donor wombs in a series of pioneering operations at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
Later this year, British doctors hope to start their own charity-funded programme to give donor wombs to at least three UK women.
It is the remarkable success of the Swedish team that has triggered calls by transgender women for them to receive womb transplants too.
And now some NHS doctors are backing their demands. Consultant gynaecologist Dr Arianna D’Angelo, of the NHS’s Wales Fertility Institute, said it was right from an ‘ethical point of view’.
The doctors’ calls come as Hayden Cross, the first British female-to-male transsexual to become pregnant gave birth to a girl this year. Mr Cross, 21, from Gloucester, who was born Paige, put his sex-change on hold last year so he could have a baby – doing so with sperm from an online donor.
The budding model was devastated to learn she was leaving the reality show because, at 23, she was at the top of the age limit and she felt this was her ‘last chance’.
Reflecting on her time in the house, the beauty queen added: ‘I don’t pity myself in any way but I’m a pre-op trans woman in a house full of amazing women with natural-born faces, and I had to achieve that through hormones and surgery.
She also revealed that her 11 fellow contestants vying for a modelling contract with Models 1 had no idea she was transgender when they completed their first task, a swimwear photo shoot.
‘The other girls didn’t know my story yet so I think that was quite nice that I did well without anyone knowing,’ said Talulah-Eve, who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2014.
‘It was quite dramatic when I came out to them that night about my transition. I had to, because my room was the only one that had single beds. All the other rooms had double beds and I felt like I was being treated like a pariah or something.’
When she was booted off BNTM, Talulah-Eve argued that she’d had to work a lot harder than her fellow contestants as she had the pressure of representing the transgender community
The former bar supervisor, added: ‘People normally guess because to look at me, you’d never know I was trans, but when you hear me speak, my voice is quite low.’
‘This was my last chance to do the show,’ she added. ‘I’m very fearless, very courageous, nothing scares me.
‘I do still have male genital parts, but I can still be as good as the other girls so I decided to just go for it.’
But she felt she had been booted off too soon, adding: ‘I don’t feel I was given a very good reason.
‘I wasn’t perhaps the strongest girl in the show but there were certainly girls who weren’t as strong as me.
Ambition: The trans rights campaigner (pictured on ITV chat show Lorraine this year) has previously said she dreams of being the first ever transgender Victoria’s Secret model
Transformation: Talulah-Eve, who was born a boy named Aaron, had her sperm frozen before her reassignment surgery so any children she has will be biologically hers
‘I admit I had a bad week the previous week, and I thank them for saving me that time, but afterwards I think they used me as a bit of a scapegoat as I think I was superb.’
Talulah, who has a black belt in karate and moonlights as a blogger, also revealed Abbey Clancey had advised her to ‘tone down’ her distinctive beauty look while on the show.
‘My eyebrows are tattooed on and I do bold, winged eyeliner and have plumped up lips, and Abbey said I had to tone it down,’ she revealed.
‘She said I had to go from Jordan to Jourdan Dunn which was good advice. We got rid of the big hair and toned down the eyebrows.’
The trans rights campaigner, who describes her look as ‘upscale glamour’, has previously said she dreams of being the first ever transgender Victoria’s Secret model.