‘So proud of the woman I am’: Hollyoaks star gives update on gender-affirming surgery

Former Hollyoaks prima Iz Hesketh has celebrated 1 twelvemonth connected gender-affirming hormones.

The star, 27, played Kitty Draper successful the Channel 4 soap for 8 months earlier departing astatine the extremity of August.

Kitty, existent sanction Ivy Shaw, arrived successful the colony having assumed the individuality of her dormant person who she was surviving successful a refuge with to escape her abusive ex-boyfriend Abe Fielding (Tyler Conti).

We aboriginal discovered that she’d besides fled her transphobic begetter Declan Hawthorne (Alan Turkington), who was aboriginal struck and killed with a book by Beau Ramsey (Jon-Paul Bell).

She antecedently revealed her crushed for her exit, clearing up suspicions that she had been axed arsenic portion of cost-cutting measures astatine the show’s accumulation basal successful Childwall, Liverpool.

‘Earlier this twelvemonth I made the determination not to enactment connected astatine Hollyoaks’ she wrote connected Instagram.

‘I request to walk the adjacent twelvemonth getting surgery, heeling and focusing connected the aboriginal and sadly that has meant leaving the amusement and moving on.’

In a further update to fans, she wrote connected a Insta Story yesterday: ‘Happy 1 twelvemonth connected hormones to me. I’m truthful arrogant of the pistillate I americium and I’m truthful excited for the adjacent chapter.’

Last period she hosted Songs for a Trans Girl, an evening of cabaret to rise wealth for the adjacent signifier of her surgery.

The lawsuit was billed arsenic ‘A nighttime of amusement from Musical Theatre stars, stunning burlesque performers and Z-list personage Iz Hesketh.’

She’s since revealed that the performances person raised a important amount, and we couldn’t beryllium happier for her!

‘Thank you truthful overmuch to everyone who came, performed, donated tickets, walked successful disconnected the thoroughfare and gave maine your evening and support’ she wrote, alongside a video of her performing.

‘Our assemblage is axenic MAGIC and I person ne'er felt prouder to beryllium queer oregon much connected to our community.’

In the affectional post, Iz added: ‘After earnestly falling retired of emotion with singing 2 years agone I’ve yet recovered my emotion for it again.’

‘This isn’t cleanable oregon adjacent adjacent but to simply sing my favourite song, sat connected stage, successful a country afloat of radical who emotion maine unconditionally is simply a infinitesimal I volition treasure forever.

‘To consciousness truthful held is thing I don’t instrumentality for granted for 1 second. The emotion I consciousness from my friends and household feels similar determination is simply a clang mat nether my full life.’

‘We raised implicit £1.5K which is conscionable caput blowing to maine and I privation everyone to to cognize that EVERY penny is appreciated’ she continued.

‘In full I’ve present raised implicit £10k to enactment towards country and I consciousness truthful blessed to beryllium loved and supported capable for this immense percent country costs to beryllium covered by my astonishing friends, household and community.

‘With you each I genuinely consciousness similar I tin bash anything. Thank you for holding maine done everything. I emotion you truthful much.’

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