Toronto Star

Model faked being transgende­r

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Savage X Fenty model Carissa Pinkston says she’s “taking full responsibi­lity” for falsely coming out as transgende­r in an attempt to cover up her antitrans comments.

The 20-year-old model told BuzzFeed she lied because she was scared of death threats, after inflammato­ry Facebook comments she wrote in May about trans women were shared last week.

In response, she confessed on Instagram that she was transgende­r. But fellow models who personally know Pinksto n called her out for lying about her identity.

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