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American model, actress, and fashion designer, known for playing the role of Marci Wise in the Netflix series When They See Us (2019). She was a contestant on both the eleventh cycle (2008) and the seventeenth cycle (2011) of the reality television show Americas Next Top Model. She was the first trans woman to compete on the show, and became one of the most visible transgender people on television. King is originally from PG County, Maryland, and currently resides in Los Angeles. King was assigned male at birth but has stated that "mentally and everything else" she was "born female." She has further stated that people might refer to her as "transgender" or "transsexual", but she prefers the phrase "born in the wrong body". In 2007, King appeared in an MSNBC special Born in the Wrong Body, which documented the lives of transgender teens from across the United States. King began hormone replacement therapy in the summer of 2007, as part of her transitioning process. She had sex reassignment surgery in 2009. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less