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JACKIE CURTIS photo archive 1

When I meet Jackie Curtis in 1967, she appears to be a girl, but she has the body odor of a man.  Each time she lifts her arm, the thick male hair of her underarm exudes a male scent.  Her meticulously overpainted dark red lips and heavy shoulder-padded low-cut dress recall a 1940s movie star. Her eyebrows are carefully plucked.  Her beard is barely visible,  bristling up through pancake makeup and pimply red skin. I learn that she is having her facial hair removed at an eletrolysis school,  where unskilled students practise on her. I ask Jackie about her childhood.  She was raised by her mother and two aunts;  the three sisters were completely in love with the movies.  She shows me a dog-eared album filled with stills of Mae West,  Joan Crawford, Garbo,  and dozen of others.  ´ This was my education,´  she says.  I see a photo of Mae West cut from a magazine.  The head has been amputated and replaced with a cut-out of Jackie´s face. ULTRA VIOLET - FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES JACKIE CURTIS MENU