The actor’s daughter beforehand mentioned she desires to observe in her mom’ footsteps as she continues to be an emblem of illustration
Robert De Niro confirmed his “love and help” for his daughter Airyn De Niro, who lately opened up about her id publicly.
“I liked and supported Aaron as my son, and now I like and help Airyn as my daughter,” De Niro mentioned in an announcement to Deadline. “I don’t know what the large deal is … I like all my kids.”
In profile with Them revealed on Tuesday, the actor’s daughter with mannequin Toukie Smith mentioned embracing her id and the impression Black ladies have had all through her journey. “I feel an enormous a part of [my transition] can also be the affect Black ladies have had on me,” she says. “I feel entering into this new id, whereas additionally being extra pleased with my Blackness, makes me really feel nearer to them ultimately.”
Earlier this yr, tabloids jumped on a paparazzi photograph of Airyn visiting her dad on the Greenwich Resort, with headlines calling her “Robert De Niro’s nepo child son” and questioning Airyn’s pink locs and female outfit. “Not solely did they get info flawed about me… They simply form of jogged my memory that folks actually don’t know something about me,” she mentioned. Not one of the retailers, Airyn identified, reached out to her earlier than the tales have been revealed — a part of the rationale she determined to discuss her id publicly.
“I’d wish to hopefully be an inspiration for not less than one different individual like me who’s Black, who’s queer, who’s not a measurement further small,” the 29-year-old instructed Them. “I’d wish to see extra trans ladies, extra Black ladies who’re perhaps bigger-bodied or don’t match the mildew of tremendous skinny or heroin stylish.”
“I need queer individuals of colour and bigger-bodied individuals to have an Alex Consani. I need queer individuals of colour and bigger-bodied individuals to have a Hunter Schafer,” she continued. “Part of me has all the time needed to mannequin and form of observe my mother’s footsteps. Truthfully, if I could possibly be on the duvet of Vogue along with her or recreating one in every of her photos, that will be a dream come true.”
