Ulyana Romanova before surgery. Memorable dates
When you look at the spectacular brunette, Ulyana Romanov, it is difficult to imagine that she was once a well-known PR man in the social circle, Igor Bulgachev. A couple of years ago, Igor went through a series of plastic surgery: he changed his gender, enlarged his breasts, had rhinoplasty, changed the shape of his forehead, cheekbones, etc. And he turned into Ulyana Romanova. Ulyana told us in detail about her changes and plastic surgeries. And her colleagues Yana Rudkovskaya, Masha Malinovskaya and Victoria Bonya told what they think about the plastic surgeries that Ulyana did in order to become beautiful and spectacular woman.
From the age of five it seemed to me that I was a girl! Transsexualism cannot be acquired. People are born with it. It has been proven that this is all formed at the embryonic level. Perhaps due to mom’s stress or some other reason. It happens that the body is formed like a boy, but the brain is female type. Since childhood, I felt like a girl. But only at a conscious age did she decide to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Many of my friends discouraged me. For example, Vika Bonya (editor's note: Victoria Bonya is a TV presenter, actress). She was very afraid for my health. There is very little information about gender reassignment surgery. And many are afraid to do it. But in fact, it can harm a person who has serious and chronic diseases. I have always been healthy, I even caught a cold once every three years. In addition, I consulted with a girl who had already undergone a similar operation. We met on the Internet. And she said: Do it and don’t be afraid of anything! If you are a woman at heart, you need to be a woman physically too.
First, I underwent hormone therapy for a year. You might think: what’s wrong, you take pills and drink. But it's incredibly difficult! The body is completely rebuilt! The psyche is changing. Mood changes 30 times per hour, as during premenstrual syndrome. Only if you ordinary girls This lasts for several days, for me it lasts for weeks. You cannot remain alone during this period, otherwise terrible depression may begin. Now I will have to take hormones for the rest of my life. But now, when the body has rebuilt itself, they no longer give that “nervous” effect. So, hormone therapy is a must.
Then - planned plastic surgery to give a female appearance. This is primarily the removal of the Adam's apple, changing the shape of the nose, forehead, and cheekbones. I had to have rhinoplasty done twice to get the results I wanted. If desired, you can make larger breasts. At first, I was happy with the second breast size that I grew from hormones. But then, I made myself a 3 breast size, gave it beautiful shape and was delighted with the operation. My butt grew on its own, from hormones.
The third stage is surgery on the genitals. I had surgery with one of the best doctors in the world. He performs intimate plastic surgery so that the genitals become like those of real woman, and maybe even better! The operation cost almost a million rubles and lasted approximately 14 hours. This is enough complex operation, but I will repeat only for those who have health problems. We can say that I survived it without any particular difficulties. If you don’t remember feeling unwell for a couple of days after the operation.
I went through 7 plastic surgeries in total, quite calmly. Of course, I experienced pain after the operations. I was scared to change my life so radically, but my beloved man and my friends supported me in everything.
It surprises me that in the 21st century many people are afraid to undergo plastic surgery. If you can make yourself more perfect, then why deny yourself this pleasure.
I think plastic surgery a wonderful invention of mankind and in the future, I will continue to improve my appearance at the plastic surgery clinic.
Producer, Yana Rudkovskaya, once upon a time there was close friend Igor Bulgachev, but now she comments on his plastic surgery as follows.
Not so long ago socialite and TV presenter Victoria Bonya appeared at every event in the company of a charming guy Igor Bulgachev. The young people were connected by friendship and work issues. After all, Igor was organizing various events and parties. However, everything changed in 2010, when the guy stunned everyone with the news of his desire to change his sex. "What a twist!" - Igor’s friends were surprised. But he decided to accomplish his plan at all costs. What came out of this and how Igor lives today, read in our article.
Where did it all start?
Igor started thinking about the operation in 2009. A completely successful PR director in the Moscow crowd unexpectedly fell in love with a man. As Igor himself later said, this man was married, but he maintained a fairly close relationship with him. It was because of him that Bulgachev decided to change his sex.
And if you dig deeper, it turns out that Igor felt like a girl from the age of five. According to the man, this is due to some kind of trauma to the mother during pregnancy. Developing in a male body, he did not understand what was happening to him. After all, he thought and felt not like a man. The concerns and interests of the neighborhood boys were always alien to him. He also preferred to make friends more with the female sex. WITH early years The young man formed his own world, where he did not exist in his body.
Reaction of others
Before deciding to have sex reassignment surgery, Igor Bulgachev went through a lot. From visiting a psychiatrist to losing loved ones. So, for example, Igor’s mother, having learned about what was happening to her son, decided to simply erase him from her life.
The woman deleted him from all social networks and stopped communicating. But this attitude did not offend Igor, because he and his mother were never close in spirit. Surprisingly, the rest of the family, namely his father, sisters and brothers, were sympathetic to his decision. And although dad tried to stop Igor at the beginning of his journey, he eventually reconciled himself and accepted such an unusual choice.
Igor Bulgachev always had a wide circle of friends. Its new appearance accepted by most of the friends around him. Many supported the young man and is now learning to call him by his new name. In the photo Igor Bulgachev with Victoria Bonya.
However, there were also those who reacted quite aggressively to Igor’s decision. An example of this ex-girlfriend- the young man’s colleague, producer Yana Rudkovskaya. After Bulgachev's gender change, she gave a negative assessment of his new look. Rudkovskaya did not accept Igor’s decision and interrupted communication with him. She said that she did not want to communicate and work with this immoral person.
New name - new life
Of course, those who decide to have a sex change young man I had to choose something beautiful female name. And he chose the beautiful name Ulyana. At the same time, he also hastened to change his last name. Now Igor Bulgachev's name is Ulyana Romanova.
Sex reassignment surgeries
As for the changes in appearance themselves, Ulyana had to undergo several operations and take hormones. This complex and long process of transformation takes not a year or two, but long years. Comparing the before and after photos of Igor Bulgachev, you can see all the changes with your own eyes.
How does Ulyana Romanova live today?
More than 7 years have passed since the changes began, and many are wondering what happened to Ulyana during this time. It turns out that the girl still works with stars and is involved in PR companies for some of them. But externally, the changes, as they say, are obvious. Having dyed her hair platinum and working on every part of her appearance, Ulyana achieved amazing results. Now nothing reminds me of Igor Bulgachev’s male past.
The girl constantly publishes her photos from luxury resorts. On them Ulyana poses in fashionable swimsuits and with the dissolute long hair. Looking at this irresistible beauty, it’s hard to believe that this is former PR director Igor Bulgachev.
Today Ulyana Romanova - frequent guest on a talk show. She shares her story of transformation into a woman and talks about possible reasons such a desire among people who decide to do this. However, due to the persecution that unfolded against her in in social networks, the girl prefers to protect her personal life from uninvited guests as strictly as possible.
Some people claim that they were “born in the wrong body.” Even I had a friend at school who, from the first grade, said that he was a girl. Thanks to technical progress The dreams of many people in the 20th century have now become a reality. PEOPLETALK decided to find out which celebrities changed their gender and what came of it.
ANDREY PEZHICH
In 2011 Andrey Pejic(23) became the world's first transgender fashion model, and now her name is Andrea. She was born in the city of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the 1999 war, Andrea immigrated with her family to Australia. Now she works with the biggest brands, including Jean-Paul Gaultier and Marc Jacobs.
ISIS KING
Isis King (29) became the first transgender model to appear on America's Next Top Model and lasted almost the entire 11th season! Today she is a successful designer and has her own clothing line.
ULYANA ROMANOVA
Ulyana Romanova was in love with a man, so she decided to change her sex for his sake. According to Ulyana, who used to be Igor Bulgachev’s PR man, this man has a family and even children, but he loves her and meets with her regularly.
ALEXIS ARQUETTE
Alexis Arquette (45) is a singer, actress and Hollywood's most outspoken transgender rights activist.
CHAZ BONO
The daughter of singer Cher (68) Chastity Bono (45) decided to change her gender and become a man. In 2010, she had sex reassignment surgery and changed her name on her passport to Chaz Bono. As a result of hormone therapy, Chaz gained a lot of weight and became the object of ridicule. But then he lost weight and now dates girls.
CARMEN CARRERA
Carmen Carrera (30) has become one of the most successful and recognizable transsexuals. When she appeared on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race, everyone was amazed by her figure. But Carmen admitted that she is transsexual. The girl appears on the covers fashion magazines and participates in shows.
VALENTIN DE KNIGHT
Valentin De Knight (23) is a transsexual model from Norway. Valentin with early childhood knew that she was not a man and acted like a girl. She took part in documentary film, dedicated to research into gender disorders in children.
INES RAU
French model Ines Rau (26) had sex reassignment surgery at age 15 and soon signed a contract with a modeling agency. She now works in New York.
LAUREN FOSTER
Lauren Foster (59) became the first transgender model to work for Vogue since 1980 and appear on the pages of the Mexican edition of the magazine.
JENNA TALAKOVA
Jenna Talakova (26) is a Canadian transsexual model who became famous for suing the organizers of the Miss Universe Canada pageant, who disqualified her once it was discovered that she was transsexual. As a result, she was allowed to pass the competition, and she made it to the top 12.
LANA WACHOWSKI
Lana Wachowski (49) was previously married to Lawrence Wachowski. She and her brother Andrew are among the most successful producers in Hollywood, their credits include Jupiter Ascending, The Matrix and Cloud Atlas.
LEA T
Brazilian transgender model Lea T (34) has collaborated with brands such as Givenchy and has appeared in Vogue Paris and Interview magazines.
AMANDA LEPORE
New York socialite and transgender Amanda Lepore (47) is a muse famous photographer David LaChapelle (52).
MARCIE BOWERS
Dr. Marcy Bowers (57) became a pioneer in gender reassignment surgery. She herself is a transsexual and spent great amount operations in Hollywood. Among her patients is Isis King.
DANA INTERNATIONAL
Dana International (43) is a famous Israeli singer who became famous for her songs, not for her gender reassignment story.
We will tell you a few stories about men and women who, having changed their gender, learned what happiness is.
Diana Dontsky ( former Anatoly Konstantinov)
Anatoly Konstantinov was a successful hairdresser and singer. But, according to the “newly made” Diana, she always felt like a woman, although she struggled with it for a long time.
Being a man, he was even married... A daughter was born. However, then he decided to become a woman. To achieve this, he needed two years of hormone therapy and many surgeries. The problem was only in his voice, but having vocal abilities, he coped with this too.
Many of their acquaintances perceived this step extremely negatively, but all the relatives supported, except for the daughter: she perceives Diana as a man and because of this, they had a rift. But in general, Donski is very happy - she is marrying the chosen one who knows her story.
Ulyana Romanova ( former Igor Bulgachev)
Igor Bulgachev a couple of years ago went through a series of plastic surgeries for gender reassignment and breast augmentation. He also performed rhinoplasty, changed the shape of his forehead, cheekbones, removed his Adam's apple, etc.
From the age of five he thought he was a girl. Now Ulyana is very happy and considers plastic surgery a wonderful invention of mankind. Romanova assures that she will continue to improve her appearance.
Kimberly Ann Sullans ( ex Ryan Sallans)
He is one of the most famous lawyers of our time, specializing in the rights of the transgender community, since he himself came out as a woman in 2005 named Kimberly Ann Sullans.
Chaz Bon (formerly Chestita San Bono)
Chaz was once the daughter of singer Cher. He admits that in his soul he always felt like a man and became one. Now Chaz Bono is a famous LGBT advocate, musician, writer and an incredibly happy person.
Rex Cameron (formerly Lorraine Cameron)
Today Rex Cameron is famous American photographer, screenwriter and sex activist. By the way, he became famous not only because of his transformation, but also because he was the first to document the entire process of transformation from a woman to a man.
Balian Buschbaum (formerly Yvonne Buschbaum)
Yvonne Buschbaum became a pole vault athlete, and even managed to compete for the German national team. But in 2008 she went missing, only to reappear soon as a man.
Balian Buschbaum is very happy that he is now finally in his body.
Buck Angel (formerly Buck Angel)
He used to be a sexy blonde. Now Buck is a porn director, a lecturer, a writer, and a lawyer all rolled into one.
While still a model, Buck clearly realized that she wanted to be a man. So she divorced her husband and began the journey to reincarnation.
Today Buck lives happily with a woman, makes films for adults with the participation of transsexuals, as well as programs about transsexual people. In addition, Angel promotes love for yourself and your body, and also created the first dating site for transgender people.
That's not all! There are more interesting cases, when genders were changed by families.
Arin Andrews and Katie Hill
Very happy couple, despite the fact that a few years ago Arin was a girl named Emeralda, Katie was born a boy named Luke.
Alexis and Karen
This two transsexuals are unique - the fact is that the husband stopped taking hormonal drugs to completely transform from a woman to a man only to give birth to a child. The couple, having learned about the pregnancy, decided to postpone the transformation process for a while. It turns out like this: for a child, his dad is his mother and vice versa...
Felix Lowes and Helen Morfit
The couple is interesting firstly because they are the first British couple to get married after a sex change.
By the way, Helen, being a man, married three times and had 8 (!) children. But he firmly decided to change his gender and became a woman, and Felix changed his gender to male, was also previously married and gave birth to two sons, to whom he is now the father.
Jane and Anne Watson (formerly Barry and Anne Watson)
The spouses - Barry and Anne in family life Many problems arose until Barry admitted that he felt like a woman. He eventually changed gender and became Jane. The couple married again, but as two women.
They are not as famous as the catwalk queen Andrea Pejic, who finally changed their gender from male to female this year, but also love likes on Instagram and strive to work with stars - see a selection of photos of popular transgender women and genderfluids!
Charles Darlin
Charlie Darlin suffered from Klinefelter syndrome since childhood - this genetic trait, in which boys are born with several female chromosomes. In this syndrome, the primary sexual characteristics remain male, but problems may arise in sex life, develop breasts. That's what happened to Charlie - in adolescence His chest grew and his hips became much rounder. For the sake of his family, Charlie underwent breast removal surgery.
However, the breasts continued to grow. Then Charles met people similar to him. The operation had a negative impact on his self-esteem, but he has overcome his depression and now considers himself a woman. Darlene, 39, competed in the British Miss Transgender pageant last year and now shows off her makeup skills on Instagram. Darlene is also an educator about Klinefelter Syndrome and how to live with it.
Alena Kuznetsova
Ex-participant of “House-2”, 23-year-old transgender woman Alena Kuznetsova attracts attention in a scandalous way: in December 2016, she accused two men of beatings and insults after a date in a restaurant, the portal Life.ru wrote. She filed a report with the St. Petersburg police after she and her friend Marina met two young men and went to their home. When acquaintances found out that the girl had changed her sex, their reaction was sharply negative.
Alena Kuznetsova came to Dom-2 in 2013 even before her gender change, but already in a female guise. Not getting accustomed to the project, Kuznetsova left, surgically changed her gender and changed her passport.
Josephine Trump
Evgeny Gribov did the hairstyles of Ksenia Sobchak, Valeria, Polina Gagarina and other show business stars, and now lives and works in the UK under the pseudonym Josephine Trump. This is all just a game, he claims, and there is no talk of real gender change. Nevertheless, Eugene's Josephine turns out to be convincing: in this image he wears long blond hair, bright outfits and poses for Instagram. The stylist's clients are only attracted to his shocking image.
Ulyana Romanova
Former PR man for Victoria Boni, event manager Igor Bulgachev became Ulyana Romanova several years ago. Friends, including Sergei Zverev and Masha Malinovskaya, have long been accustomed to Ulyana. As Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote, even dad, after much suffering, accepted this and said: “Well, I lost my son, but I got a daughter.”
On her Instagram, Ulyana Romanova posts selfies from the gym, where she never misses a workout, photos from fitting rooms in fashion showrooms, shows off endless legs and shows cosmetic procedures without hesitation.
Valentin de Hin
26-year-old Valentin De Heen is a transsexual model from Norway. Valentin became famous as a child, starring in a film about children with gender disorders: from birth he knew that he was a girl, not a boy. In 2012, Valentin received the Personal Style award from Elle magazine, and now he is engaged not only modeling business and his demonstration on Instagram, but also DJing, and also writes journalistic columns.