Who is Munroe Bergdorf? Trans model reveals she was locked in room and sexual assaulted by stalker
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, ESSEX: Trailblazing transgender model and activist recounted one of her biggest nightmares during a talk show ahead of her bombshell memoir release 'Transitional'. Sensational model Munroe Bergdorf, 34, said she was "locked in a room for two hours" and brutally raped by a man who stalked her after a night out.
Bergdorf speaking to the Loose Women panel said she believes the "demonization" of transgender bodies ultimately led to her attacker carrying out sexual violence. The 34-year-old claims following the incident, she was helpless and the tragic event sent her into a "really dark trajectory," according to Daily Mail.
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Who is Munroe Bergdorf?
Munroe Bergdorf grew up in the sheltered village of Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex in the 1990s. The 34-year-old transgender is a sensational model and activist in the trans community. While discussing Bergdorf's biggest challenges, panelist Kéllé Bryan asks what was the lowest moment during her years of "coming out"' and feeling "ostracised." To which she replied, "There was a really difficult time in the book, I was sexually assaulted right at the beginning of my transition."
"I had this encounter because society demonizes our bodies so much to the point where men who find us attractive are being fed it is so wrong that they do it in secret and often enact sexual violence on us," reported the source. "I was locked in a room for two hours and raped, I was stalked for six hours before, I met him on a night out and then he found where I lived and where I worked and raped me very badly," she said.
'I lost all hope!'
Bergdorf added, "It just sent me on a really dark trajectory because there was no help and socially and culturally things have gotten worse and we are being painted as the people you should be looking out for when really we are all being affected with misogyny and violence against women." Recalling another incident Bergdorf expressed what it is like when "someone looks at you and they want to kill you," she told The Guardian.
"When you look at someone and you know they want to kill you, and they don’t see you as human enough to respect you when you say 'no, you don’t want to have sex with them', and [they] rape you anyway, that just kills a part of you." "I don’t know how I can unsee that. I still struggle to think of that period because I lost all hope," reported the source. "After that, I started hating myself a lot and entered abusive relationships because I didn’t think I deserved any more."