33 Facts About Isis King

Isis King was born on October 1,1985 and is an American model, actress, and fashion designer.

Isis King was the first openly trans woman to compete on the show, and became one of the most visible transgender people on television.

Isis King has been starring as Sol Perez on the Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy series With Love since 2021.

Isis King has an associate degree in design and illustration from the Art Institute of Philadelphia.

Isis King moved to New York to begin her transition, but didn't earn enough money to afford rent, and her family opposed her transition.

In 2007, Isis King appeared in an MSNBC special titled Born in the Wrong Body, which documented the lives of transgender teens from across the United States.

Isis King began hormone replacement therapy in the summer of 2007, as part of her transitioning process.

Isis King had gender reassignment surgery in 2009, which she stated on America's Next Top Model: All-Stars.

Isis King had been runway modeling for seven years before participating in America's Next Top Model.

Isis King's experience included competing in the underground ball culture scene.

Isis King has worked as a receptionist at a hair salon, and as a program assistant for a nonprofit organization.

Isis King was living at the Ali Forney Transitional Living Program when she learned about an upcoming photo shoot for the tenth cycle of America's Next Top Model.

Isis King asked ANTM art director Jay Manuel whether she could be accepted as a girl "born in the wrong body" if she were to audition as a contestant for the program.

Isis King became one of fourteen finalists for the eleventh cycle of the show.

Isis King began posing for a photography set primarily concentrated on youth homelessness, which became the catalyst for her returning for cycle 17.

Taz Tagore, co-founder of the Reciprocity Foundation, said that Isis King had an agenda when participating in Cycle 17, she wanted to break the stigma and destroy the barriers for those who identify with the LGBTQ+ community.

Isis King became a role model for women in that community.

Banks surprised Isis King by introducing her to Marci Bowers, a fellow trans woman and top gender reassignment surgeon, who offered her an all-expenses-paid surgery which was conducted in 2009.

Isis King competed in the seventeenth overall and first 'All Star' cycle of America's Next Top Model, which aired on the September 14,2011.

Since then Isis King has worked with American Apparel, making her the first transgender person to do so.

In July 2015, Isis King was a guest star on multiple episodes of the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

Isis King played Gia in a guest role on season 7 of the Showtime show Shameless.

Isis King plays Marci, the deceased older sister of Korey Wise.

Isis King said that playing this role is 'like a magnifying glass on the world right now'.

On July 3,2020, Isis King appeared on fellow America's Next Top Model star Jay Manuel's weekly web chat, Jays Chat, to discuss the show's Cycle 11, on which she made her debut.

Isis King is signed with AEFH Talent for Theatrical, and A3 Artist Agency for commercial work in Los Angeles.

Isis King appeared in Us Weekly, Seventeen magazine, Out magazine, Mallard International magazine, and the cover of the Spring 2010 Swerv magazine.

Isis King did a variety of test shots that were used to promote her visit to The Tyra Banks Show.

Isis King is one of a small but growing number of transgender people and characters in film and television, and her inclusion on ANTM has been called an "unprecedented opportunity" by Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD.

Facets of Isis King's transitioning process have been portrayed in the show, such as her hormone injections and subsequent nausea.

Isis King is a practising Christian, and attends Mosaic Church in Los Angeles.

Isis King's younger sister Chanel died as a baby after being born with all of her organs outside of her body.

Isis King is a motivational speaker and shares her experiences to schools across the country.