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BY JESSICA FLY

ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN

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Nineteen-year old Andrej Pejic, an Australian supermodel, made FHM’s top 100 sexiest women cut. The catch?

“Rail thin and with green eyes and cheekbones to die for, this beauty has other vital stats that will shock you, because she is actually a he.”

Appearing as both masculine and feminine on catwalks and glossy ads around the world -the androgynous supermodel’s original scout didn’t know he was a biological “he.”(Inside Edition)

Storm Model Agency owner Sarah Doukas says there is wide acceptance of Pejic.

Sarah Doukas: “We live in a world where so many things are changing, boundaries are being crossed, and I think people are much more accepting of that kind of thing. I think if he were like that maybe ten or twenty years ago it would have been more difficult for him. I think he is part of this whole change of world and he is accepted by everybody.”

But outside the modeling world -- acceptance might be a bit of an exaggeration. FHM mocked Pejic after featuring him in its ‘100 Sexiest Women’ issue.

The catty comments were removed from FHM’s site -- but there is still a screen grab of the original print circulating the Internet.

“...the blonde gender-bender has jumped the gun in one day hoping he might be a Victoria’s Secret Model (Pass the sick bucket)... One fashion trend we won’t be following.”

Then -- Pejic graced the cover of Dossier’s May edition bare-chested, with his long locks in curlers. U.S. retailers Barnes & Noble and Borders demanded an opaque covering of the magazine.

That prompted a piece from Sociological Images titled, “What makes a body obscene?” The writer argues -- it’s not Andrej’s body that makes people uncomfortable. It’s his gender presentation.

“...the treatment of the Dossier cover reveals that the social and legislative ban on public breasts rests on a jiggly foundation. It’s not simply that breasts are considered pornographic. It’s that we’re afraid of women and femininity and female bodies and, if a man looks feminine enough, he becomes, by default, obscene.”

Finally, designer Paul Smith sees Andrej as what he is to the fashion industry - today’s “in” thing.

PAUL SMITH: “The whole androgynous look is very relevant to us men and women at the moment. Not just in the male industry but also in the female industry. Now why it is happening, that we don’t know.”

REPORTER: “Who knows. It’s fashion. It could be anything.”

SMITH: “Yeah, exactly. Fashion is about today and tomorrow.”

REPORTER: “And he’s today.”