When Anjali Lama walks the ramp at the Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort in 2017, she will also be blazing the trail for transgender people across the world. She will become the first transgender woman to have been selected to walk the runway at the Lakmé Fashion Week. The path to making history has not been an easy one for Anjali. Born in a small village in Nepal, the 32-year-old model was shunned by her family (except for her mother) when she came out as a transgender. Due to the help provided by Blue Diamond Society, an LGBT rights organisation, she was not only able to understand her identity as a transgender woman but she also received the support system she needed. The idea of become a model was born when she received positive reactions after being featured in Voice of Women, a national magazine in Nepal and underwent training to become a model.

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