They admit they are far stronger now than one year ago. “We’d done 16 covers in 18 months. I had everything; I had money, I was hot shit, I was booked, I was busy, but I was so unhappy,” they say. When a fashion designer asked Jamal, who was standing nearly naked, if they were a boy or a girl before suggesting they were “like an avatar” during a Paris Fashion Week casting, the model suffered a breakdown. “I didn’t feel human,” they say. The last thing they remember is going to their hotel room.
