Creative direction: PAAR photography & Richard Schreefel

Photography: PAAR photography

Styling: Richard Schreefel

Hair & MakeUp: Dennis Michael

Model: Gia Sky

This is a story about a woman called Gia Sky. Gia was born in the wrong body and had a very hard childhood in Morocco. She was only 6 years old when she started feeling that she is not happy to be seen as a boy.

Gia had a very sad childhood, because of her gender dysphoria and the way she sees herself at that age. Her mom and dad and even her brothers used to abuse her for who she was by slapping her, punishing her and shaving her head against her will. When She was 5 years, Gia has been raped and sexually abused as a child by one of her brothers. And when she was 10 years old, her teacher did some sexual advances on her, but that was against her will.

After the death of her father at age 12 she become a rebel child against all the rules and stupid beliefs. And when she turned 21, Gia moved to The Netherlands to live together with her Dutch husband. Gia throwed all the painful past that she had in Morocco behind her back and decided to start a new life in a new country. She sees The Netherlands as her mother country and she loves The Netherlands, because this country gives Gia love and respect that she always dreamed of.

 Living in The Netherlands gives Gia the chance to discover her talent and passion for fashion art styling and therefore she went to Amsterdam to study fashion styling and in 2008 she started her fashion styling career, her styling work has been published in a high fashion art magazines around the world.

In 2012 Gia created her own fashion magazine Zodiac and after years of hard working in the art and fashion industry she quit everything, because she was sick of being seen as a man or that boy who wear makeup and sexy outfits, in her mind she was always a woman and that woman was not free herself and wanted so badly to be free. In 2016 she took a big step in her life and decided to start her transition and after 5 years of transition and hormone replacement therapy male to female everything in her life has change from a nightmare into something beautiful and the woman that was always locked in a body that she never wanted is now free to show herself to the world without fear or shame.

Gia never sees herself as a victim but a survivor and a strong woman who have been through allot but still standing tall.  She always compare herself to a soldier who go to war zone for a fight and win the fight. Her biggest dream is to become a tattoo and nude art talent model but in artistic fashion way. Gia is also working on her first nude art photography book. The content of her book is about (The Unapologetic Woman) who uses her naked body to empower other women who are scared to be sexy or takes nude, topless pictures of themselves. She want to tell to these women that they need to free themselves and be proud of their bodies and skin.

Gia believes that every woman has the right to be free with what she does in her own life and if a woman wants to be sexy or take a nude picture of herself, then nobody has the right to judge her or call her names or put a label on her without even knowing the story behind that woman. She thinks that every woman or young lady have the right to be independent and in control of her own life.

 Gia Sky dreams of a world without labels, a world where people can love one another, a world full of respect and freedom choices. A world where people can feel free to be themselves without feeling scared of being killed for who they are.

Last but not least, special thanks to MIRROR MIRROR and the fashion art teamwork who gives Gia the chance to tell her story.