Model and actor Leyna Bloom has made history by becoming the first transgender woman to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated.
This comes after last July, the magazine featured its first transgender woman, model Valentina Sampaio, in the pages of Sports Illustrated, making way for a change. ‘This moment heals a lot of pain in the world.
We deserve this moment.’ Leyna wrote on her Instagram, after becoming the first-ever trans woman of color to be featured in the magazine.
The cover shows the Filipino model posing in a white, one-piece swimsuit and it is a dream that she has always wished for as Leyna continued to write: ‘We have waited millions of years to show up as survivors and be seen as full humans filled with wonder.’ She continued: