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Exclusive: UK's first transgender TV newsreader India Willoughby 'There was only 50% of me that was actually alive'

INDIA WILLOUGHBY - THE UK'S FIRST TRANSGENDER NEWSREADER - JOINED COLEEN, JANET, JUNE AND LISA FOR A CANDID CHAT ABOUT HER JOURNEY.

Born Jonathan, India made the brave decision to talk about being transgender, telling the panel, 'Growing up there was only about 50% of me that was actually alive. It's such a complex subject being transgender to explain.'

'When I was young I was aware something wasn't quite right,' she added. 'I was about three or four but I didn't know it was gender. My grandma caught me playing with a lipstick and she didn't tell me off in a nasty way but she pointed out the rules of pink and blue.'

And watching old footage of Jonathan presenting the news a decade ago, India, 50, said, 'It's really difficult looking at my old me. I accept it. It's my old skin, as it were.'

Watch the full interview above....

India Willoughby joined Loose Women to talk about her transgender journey
India Willoughby - UK's first transgender newsreader
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