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I was a boy, Phelps’s girl reveals

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LONDON: Michael Phelps’s selfprocla­imed girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, has just made a shocking admission.

In a post on Facebook, Chandler revealed she was actually born a boy, and named David Roy Fitch at birth.

As a teenager, however, Chandler went on testostero­ne blockers and had her name changed, and then, in her early twenties, underwent corrective surgery to get rid of her male genitalia.

Chandler was born a male, however, in name only, and is actually intersex, meaning she had male genitalia, but no testicles, while also having a uterus and no ovaries.

As she explains in a Facebook post: “I was never a man, never lived as a man. No one can say they knew me as a man or produce a photo of me as a man.”

She then adds: “There are people that remember me as an androgynou­s child at times because of what was forced upon me.”

She is also revealing how in love she is with Phelps, and claims the two clicked after meeting on Tinder.

“Spending time with him was like a teenage love affair,” she says. “I have never felt so comfortabl­e and accepted in every way as I did with him.”

She had previously detailed their first date at a Baltimore Ravens games to the National Enquirer.

“One thing led to the next, and we made love during halftime,” she claims in the interview. “Later, we had sex again. The intimacy was amazing! It was the first time that someone has made me feel like a true woman.”

She also told the magazine that she never lied to the swimmer about her past, saying it just never came up.

Now, however, Chandler thinks Phelps might leave her after telling her truth. “I am probably going to lose him, because he is a brand that his team wants to protect.”

She claims she was with Phelps when he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving two months ago, sparking a stint in rehab. – Daily Mail

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INTIMATE: Michael Phelps and Taylor Lianne Chandler

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