Caroline Cossey

Caroline "Tula" Cossey (born August 31, 1954 in Brooke, Norfolk , England ) is a British model , actress and dancer.

Life

Born as Barry Kenneth Cossey took the name in 1972 Caroline and began their money with topless - Table Dance earn. 1973 was Klinefelter's syndrome diagnosed and after prior hormone therapy she underwent a breast augmentation first and 1974 in London a gender reassignment surgery .

After some success as a model under the stage name Tula , she got a small supporting role in the James Bond film In A Deadly Mission in 1981 . After a subsequent photo session for Playboy , she was outed as trans by the tabloid News of the World in an article with the headline James Bond girl was a boy - this not only ruined her career, but also drove her to the verge of suicide . She processed her experiences with the autobiography Tula: I am a Woman , published in 1982, and worked as a model again.

The problem caught up with her again when she met and fell in love with Count Glauco Lasinio during a photo shoot - but marriage was not possible as she was still considered a man by the British authorities. Her lawsuit went to the European Court of Human Rights , which ultimately also rejected the lawsuit.

In the meantime she had found a job at the Oriental School of Medicine in London for acupressure and in a private clinic. There she met Elias Fattal , whom she married on May 21, 1989. Since her story had again met with great press coverage during her honeymoon, the marriage was divorced on June 11, 1989 at the insistence of her husband's Orthodox Jewish family and annulled on January 17, 1990. After this failed relationship, she started modeling again, in September 1991 Playboy brought her story with another photo shoot under the heading The Transformation of Tula - she was the first transsexual to receive a Playboy feature. Her second autobiography, My Story , appeared in 1992 , in the same year she was officially recognized as a woman by the British authorities and married the Canadian David Finch , with whom she lives in the United States .

Publications

Tula: I am a Woman , autobiography 1982
My Story , autobiography, 1992

Web links

Tula in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ Tula .: My story . Faber and Faber, London 1991, ISBN 0-571-16251-7 .
↑ ^a ^b The model who paved the way for transsexuals. June 23, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
↑ James Michael Nichols: This Trans Supermodel Was Outed In The '80s, Lost Everything And Became A Pioneer . In: Huffington Post . June 20, 2016 ( huffpost.com [accessed July 27, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Cossey, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tula (stage name); Cossey, Barry Kenneth (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British intersex model, actress and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooke, Norfolk , England

[1] Tula .: My story . Faber and Faber, London 1991, ISBN 0-571-16251-7 .

[:0-2] The model who paved the way for transsexuals. June 23, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2020 .

[3] James Michael Nichols: This Trans Supermodel Was Outed In The '80s, Lost Everything And Became A Pioneer . In: Huffington Post . June 20, 2016 ( huffpost.com [accessed July 27, 2020]).