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ACTOR ELLIOT PAGE SHOWS OFF SIX PACK FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER SURGERY: Actor Elliot Page (left), who underwent surgery to remove breast tissue earlier this year, has flaunted his abs for the first time. He was beaming in a shirtless photo posted on I
Elliot Page. PHOTO: ELLIOTPAGE/INSTAGRAM

ACTOR ELLIOT PAGE SHOWS OFF SIX PACK FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER SURGERY: Actor Elliot Page, who underwent surgery to remove breast tissue earlier this year, has flaunted his abs for the first time.

He was beaming in a shirtless photo posted on Instagram on Monday, clad in a pair of red board shorts by the pool.

"Trans bb's first swim trunks," the 34-year-old wrote, adding the hashtags #transjoy and #transisbeautiful.

Last month, Page opened up about his surgery on The Oprah Conversation with host Oprah Winfrey and cried tears of joy at being finally comfortable in his own body. He revealed he was transgender in December last year.

"Getting out of the shower and the towel's around your waist and you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just like, 'There I am'," he said. "Feel comfortable in my body, for the, probably, first time."

In his first interview since going public, he spoke to Time magazine in March about growing up and feeling "like a boy", but having "to look a certain way" for the sake of his acting career.

Formerly known as Ellen Page, he won critical acclaim early in his career in coming-of-age movie Juno (2007), playing a teenager dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.

He told Winfrey he wanted to share how the surgery changed his life, even though he acknowledged that not all transgender men wanted or could afford it.

"And I want people to know that not only has it been life-changing for me, but I also do believe it is life-saving and it's the case for so many people," he added. "There is such an attack on trans healthcare right now, when already there is such a lack of access for trans people who don't even want to go to the doctor."

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on May 26, 2021, with the headline On social media. Subscribe