What You Need To Know About NikkieTutorials – And Why She’s Great

Nikkie de Jager, better known by her YouTube name, NikkieTutorials, has revealed in a new video that she is transgender. 

In a video titled, I’m Coming Out, the 25-year-old makeup artist explained that she had been forced into sharing her story after being blackmailed, but that she felt liberated by sharing her truth.

She told her 12.7 million subscribers: “I wanted to start the year off by finally revealing a part of my life that has made me who I am. It’s time to let go and be truly free.” She went on to say: “When I was younger I was born in the wrong body, which means that I am transgender.”

Fans have rallied round Nikkie, taking to YouTube and Twitter to share messages of support, as well as expressing horror that people threatened to leak her story.

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Nikkie said she always knew who she was. “Ever since I was born, I’ve always thought that I was a girl, and I just couldn’t understand why I had short hair, or why I had to wear trousers, or couldn’t wear dresses. All of me was girly. My mum knew immediately that I either was going to be gay or a different type of story and it turned out to be a different type of story,’ she told her viewers. 

By six, she had grown out her hair, she said, and by seven or eight, she wore only girls’ clothes. Nikkie told viewers that she fully transitioned at 19, in the midst of her YouTube career, after taking hormones and growth stoppers at 14.

She tearfully revealed how thankful she was to her mum. “Growing up my mum has been there for me since day one, she has always supported me, always accepted me, and that is everything you need as a kid.”

In the emotional 17 minute video, she described her journey to sharing her news as scary but freeing. “With this message I want to inspire little Nikkies around the world, who feel insecure and out of place, who feel misunderstood. I hope by me standing up and being free, that it inspires other to do the same… We need to accept each other, we need to respect each other but most of all we need to hear each other and understand,” she said.

Transgender beauty YouTuber Nikita Dragun tweeted her support, saying, “U don’t know how many people ur inspiring helping by sharing ur story.”

Nikkie finished her video with a special Dutch Word Of The Day – a recurring segment in her videos which she teaches her fans Dutch vocab – choosing the word ‘vrouw’, meaning woman.

She has millions of fans, but if you’re new to the makeup star, here’s everything you need to know.

NikkieTutorials from The Power Of Makeup.