Jamie Lee Curtis Continues To Show Unwavering Support For Her Trans Daughter
In a recent AARP profile, Jamie Lee Curtis spoke of how she “watched in wonder as [her] son became her daughter Ruby.”
The Halloween Kills star and daughter Ruby have now spoken with People to answer a few questions about their learning journey since Ruby’s coming out.
A year ago Ruby sat with her parents (Jamie Lee Curtis and comedy director Christopher Guest) to disclose her gender identity. While she had the intention of coming out as a trans woman to her family, it proved too difficult at the moment.
“It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me they didn’t know,” Ruby says of the situation. “It was intimidating — but I wasn’t worried. They had been so accepting of me my entire life.”
When Ruby did come out, there were happy tears and support from the whole family.
Jamie Lee Curtis told People, “it’s speaking a new language — it’s learning new terminology and words. I am new at it. I am not someone who is pretending to know much about it. And I’m going to blow it, I’m going to make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes.”
A Learning Curve
The Halloween star continued by saying “you slow your speech down a little. You become a little more mindful about what you’re saying. How you’re saying it. You still mess up, I’ve messed up today twice. We’re human. But if one person reads this sees a picture of Ruby and me and says, ‘I feel free to say this is who I am,’ then it’s worth it.”
When asked if she was surprised by the announcement, Jamie Lee Curtis had this to share:
“I knew Ruby had had a boyfriend. I knew that Ruby had used the word bi. But gender identity and sexual orientation — those are two separate things. And I knew that Ruby played female avatars in video games. But when you ask, ‘Did you have an inkling that Ruby was trans?’ I would say no. But when I replayed Ruby’s life, I went, ‘Hmm, that, that, those, hmm.'”
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