Nikki Secondino is accused of killing a man in Brooklyn. A source has learned that she is a social media influencer with more than 15,000 Instagram followers.
The 22-year-old transgender online model has a lot of sultry photos on her Instagram page, and she once told an interviewer she had a contract with a modeling agency and went to the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Who’s your idol this year,
she wrote in one Instagram post.
Me.
The bags under my eyes are Gucci,
she wrote in another post.
Nikki Secondino talked about her “body image issues” in a separate post from November 2019.
Today I’ve partnered up with @bodypositivityvibes and @body.positive.xoxo to spread awareness about body image issues,
she wrote.
Down below are the statistics of body image issues people have in the United States alone.
Gentle Touch Lasers in Westchester County, where she is a client, is one of the sponsors she lists on her Instagram account.
I am in shock,
manager Maria Escaff said.
I cannot believe it’s this person. To me, it’s, ‘Is that what one of my clients did?
When they come to do changes in their lives they present the best of who they are,
she said of the company’s clients.
She gave us the good part.
In an honest interview for the “United We Rant” podcast in 2020, Nikki Secondino talked about how hard it was for her to change from a boy to a girl and about her career as a model.
People constantly told me that I should get into it and stuff. At the time one of my friends [in high school] she was a really good photographer. So, we made like a portfolio of stuff and I actually had a professional photographer make headshots for me and stuff.
She said that she sent the pictures to several agencies, and one of them finally showed interest.
I started modeling and booking gigs and stuff and it was the best decision I ever made,
she said.
I get paid really well. They pay me very well, but it’s also, sometimes it can be a very toxic environment.
You do get people here and there who can tell [I’m transgender],
she said.
Like whatever it would be, off of my voice, off of my face. I have a real feminine body but like some people can clock you. Like your shoulders are too wide, your ribs are whatever.
She said she was born Nicholas Secondino, but she knew she was trans when she was just 5 years old. When her mom made her try on a boy’s bathing suit and clothes at Target, she threw a fit because she felt so uncomfortable in them.
Nikki Secondino said that by the time she was 16, she had started taking hormones. She also said that her dad was supportive during the whole process.
My dad had a strong personality,
she said.
He didn’t let it affect him. My mom, surprisingly, took it a little harder than my dad. That was the way that that happened.
She said that her parents split up while she and her family were living in New Jersey, and she moved back to New York and was living in Westchester County at the time of the podcast.
I was in therapy consistently,
Nikki said.
I hated the process of hiding that part of myself.
