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“It’s the same with social media. I’m very open about being trans on my Twitter and Facebook, but it’s not on my Instagram so I get a lot of men messaging me on there.
“It makes me really anxious because I know at some point I’m going to have to reveal it to them.
“It’s difficult to find love as a trans because a lot of men just see us as sexual fantasies and nothing more.
“We don’t fit into that traditional journey of manhood – career, money, settle down, get married and have kids. They just want us for sex.”
Talulah says she has had “a few” celebrity men get in touch since she’s been on the show.
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She does have a type though. “Preferably rich!” she laughs.
“I’ve got a lot of men after me now. My type would be someone tall, tanned, with tattoos and blue eyes.
“I like Aaron Chambers from Geordie Shore, Pete Wicks and Jon Clark from Towie and Tinie Tempah.”
Talulah knew she was different ever since she could remember and struggled at school because she couldn’t bear being lumped in with the lads.
She says: “I hated playing football, hated wearing baggy trousers when all the girls were wearing skirts.
“I used to skive PE because the other boys always went for me at football and rugby because they thought it was funny. The easiest way for me to get some slack was to come out as gay so that’s what I did, but I knew it wasn’t right.”
Talulah’s eyes were opened when she read about transgender Big Brother winner Nadia Almada and realised she was the same.
“From that moment I knew what I was going to do and I carried that secret around with me for years,” she says.
At college, Talulah started dressing as a woman for nights out before coming out as transgender.
She began hormone treatment in 2015 before having gender reassignment. And the only thing she was scared of before the op was losing the ability to enjoy sex.
“There are cases where something doesn’t work after surgery but luckily enough that didn’t happen to me,” she says.
“I have lots of fun now and the sex is great.”
Talulah has faced her fair share of trolling, but insists she’d rather take the taunts than someone more vulnerable.
She says: “When they revealed the cast for Britain’s Next Top Model, some people said: ‘Oh my God, she still looks like a man’.
“I’ve learned not to take notice of it. The way I see it, if those trolls are targeting me who is strong enough to take it, they are leaving some other poor innocent person alone.
“There are some people out there who are just starting transitioning and wouldn’t be able to take that sort of abuse.
“I’m a tough cookie. I just don’t care what people think. I’m me, like it or lump it.”
BNTM viewers will have to wait and see how Talulah does in the competition but she admits to being too outspoken and fiery at times with judges Abbey Clancy, Paul Sculfor, Hilary Alexander and Nicky Johnston.
Still, she has already landed campaigns for a false eyelash and a skincare brand.
And it’s the start of a whole new chapter for Talulah.
She says: “Now I feel free, I can wear whatever clothes I want.
“I can have amazing sex as a woman and I’m having fun.
“I feel like I’m me now and I’m ready to start living this amazing life.”