{"id":808000,"date":"2026-10-19T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808000\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:46:09","slug":"hunter-schafer-reveals-she-had-bottom-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808000\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Schafer Reveals She Had Bottom Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHunter Schafer<\/a> has undergone bottom surgery, the \u201cEuphoria\u201d star revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just had bottom surgery in December, which was amazing, and I love it so much,\u201d Schafer told Elle magazine<\/a>, referring to the gender-affirming operation that alters a person\u2019s genitals to align with their gender identity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor a long time I\u2019ve embraced the gender-expansive part of myself, and I really wanted to try to make that previous body work, because I thought there was something really cool and badass about it,\u201d she said. But, according to Elle, Schafer described \u201chitting a wall again and again where this theoretical queer utopia didn\u2019t match up with the world she encountered every day, and the way she personally wanted to show up in it.\u201d And so while every trans person is different, a medical transition was the right decision for Schafer.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchafer described that ability to evolve as the \u201cmagical thing about queerness\u201d \u2014 that \u201con an ideological level, it\u2019s about possibility and expansion and growth, and being on that journey and finding yourself.\u201d While she had always viewed her gender identity as more fluid, she has now landed somewhere \u201cflatter,\u201d she described. \u201cI\u2019m a woman. I\u2019m a girl,\u201d she said. Coming to that conclusion required Schafer to wrestle with queerness as a philosophy \u201cversus how it applies and works in real life, in the context of the world that we\u2019re living in.\u201d She said, \u201cI feel like there\u2019s always a tension there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSchafer described her recovery from bottom surgery in early 2026, noting that she rented a big apartment and had friends and family visit while she was required to lie flat. \u201cI think my limit was 150 steps per day, which is nothing,\u201d she said of her doctor\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchafer, who will next be seen opposite Michelle Yeoh in the Amazon miniseries \u201cBlade Runner 2099,\u201d spoke a couple of years ago about not wanting her identity to overshadow her work, saying she herself had tried to avoid saying the word \u201ctrans\u201d during interviews. \u201cIt has not just happened naturally by any means. If I let it happen, it would still be giving \u2018Transsexual Actress\u2019 before every article ever,\u201d Schafer told GQ<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs soon as I say it, it gets blastoff,\u201d she added about when the word \u201ctrans\u201d comes up in her interviews. \u201cIt took a while to learn that and it also took a while to learn that I don\u2019t want to be [reduced to] that, and I find it ultimately demeaning to me and what I want to do. Especially after high school, I was sick of talking about it. I worked so hard to get to where I am, past these really hard points in my transition, and now I just want to be a girl and finally move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSchafer acknowledged in that interview that \u201cit\u2019s a privilege\u201d to be able to shift focus beyond her gender identity, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s been very intentional. I\u2019ve gotten offered tons of trans roles, and I just don\u2019t want to do it. I don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know for a fact that I\u2019m one of the most famous trans people in media right now, and I do feel a sense of responsibility, and maybe a little bit of guilt, for not being more of a spokesperson,\u201d Schafer concluded. \u201cBut ultimately, I really do believe that not making it the centerpiece to what I\u2019m doing will allow me to get further. And I think getting further and doing awesome shit, in the interest of \u2018the movement,\u2019 will be way more helpful than talking about it all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSchafer\u2019s first acting rule was Jules in the HBO smash hit \u201cEuphoria,\u201d which made her a celebrity \u2014 and a role model for trans people \u2014 in her early 20s. Her other roles include \u201cThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u201d and the Neon horror movie \u201cCuckoo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunter Schafer has undergone bottom surgery, the \u201cEuphoria\u201d star revealed. \u201cI just had bottom surgery in December, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,24643,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hunter-schafer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}