Hunter Schafer Shares Why She Decided to Undergo Gender-Affirming Bottom Surgery

Hunter Schafer is feeling more embodied than ever.

The Euphoria actress recently decided to share a personal update with the world, one she’d otherwise kept private for almost a year.

“I just had bottom surgery in December,” Schafer told Elle in an interview published Oct. 19, “which was amazing, and I love it so much.”

For the 27-year-old, who began transitioning at age 14, the decision to undergo the gender-affirming operation was one she came to slowly.

“For a long time I’ve embraced the gender-expansive part of myself,” she explained, “and I really wanted to try to make that previous body work, because I thought there was something really cool and badass about it.”

These days her identity feels “flatter,” with her noting, “I’m a woman. I’m a girl.”

But that ability to change and evolve is one of the elements of being LGBTQ+ Schafer is most grateful for.

“I feel like that’s the magical thing about queerness,” she said. “On an ideological level, it’s about possibility and expansion and growth, and being on that journey and finding yourself.”