Gigi has used internet celebrity status to bring awareness to transgender issues, the LGBT community, and anti-bullying. Gigi has modeled for designer Marco Marco, and walked in the 20 Marco Marco Fashion Shows. She frequently attends Beaut圜on conventions to meet with fans and sit in on panels about makeup techniques and the cosmetics industry. Gigi was awarded the LogoTV Trailblazing Social Creator Award in 2014 for being an advocate on behalf of LGBT youth. The show's last episode aired on April 14, 2013.Ģ014–16: Gender transition and appearances The show premiered on March 15 of that year on YouTube with distribution by Blip. On January 18, 2011, Gigi announced The Avenue, a YouTube-based reality series.
Since transitioning, her YouTube channel started to include more vlogs, fashion, and lifestyle videos. Gigi first came out at age 16, identifying at the time as a gay male. Gigi operated a makeup tutorial YouTube channel that began in 2008 while in the eleventh grade, when a friend mentioned seeing a makeup video by Michelle Phan on YouTube. Gigi's mother, Judith, died of leukemia on February 3, 2012, at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto. Īs a young adult, Gigi was a nationally ranked diving champion. She is of Italian, Lebanese, English and French heritage and she was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. Gigi was born Gregory Allan Lazzarato, the child of Judith Lazzarato (née Belding) and David Lazzarato, a business executive who served as independent director of The Stars Group, chief executive officer of Craig Wireless, and chief financial officer of Alliance Atlantis.
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Her performance credits include starring in fellow YouTuber Shane Dawson's short film I Hate Myselfie (2015) and its sequel, along with guest appearances in television series Project Runway All Stars, Me and My Grandma, Good Work, and Trailblazers, amongst others. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to have a limited theatrical release and several accolades including a Streamy.īesides personality work, Lazzarato has dabbled in acting and modeling work. Lazzarato was the subject of This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017), a Barbara Kopple-directed documentary that followed life going through gender transition. In 2016, an incident involving Lazzarato being deported from Dubai due to her status as a transgender woman, resulted in widespread media coverage. During 2014, Lazzarato personally documented her gender transition through social media profiles, notably through videos revolving around cosmetic procedures, which obtained viral status. Following a brief hiatus, she gained media attention after coming out as a transgender woman in 2013, and began going by Gigi Gorgeous. During the following years, Lazzarato uploaded regularly to the channel along with creating and starring in the reality program The Avenue (2011–2013). Her videos achieved popularity and established an online following. In 2008, Lazzarato began uploading video blogs onto streaming platform YouTube as Gregory Gorgeous. Gigi Loren Lazzarato Getty (born Gregory Allan Lazzarato April 20, 1992), known professionally as Gigi Gorgeous Getty, is a Canadian YouTuber, socialite, actress, and model.
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