News.com.au – Alex Murdoch
When Kelly Roberts sashays into the room, you can’t help but be transfixed.
The slim, attractive blonde has curves in all the right places, a down-to-earth attitude and a smile that lights up the entire building.
She is the epitome of the girl-next-door ? with one clear exception.
Roberts was born a man.
The 37-year old from Brisbane’s southside says she was about three-years-old when she first realised she was not like other “boys”, although at that tender age she didn’t know why.
“My sister started school and I remember trying on her uniforms thinking I want one of these uniforms and not one of the boys’ ones ? these are much prettier,” Roberts says.
At age 12 Roberts was sent to an endocrinologist because he had, naturally, started developing breasts.
By 14, with his parents’ permission, he started female hormone therapy and at 22 had the first of many operations to become a fully-fledged woman.