'Since I transitioned when I was 16, I've been living as a cis female. 'I'm definitely a little bit nervous because I've been presenting as cisgender (a person who identifies with the sex they were assigned at birth) for so long,' Quinlivan told CNN in 2017. Two years after starting in modeling, Quinlivan came out as transgender. She appeared on the runway for Diane Von Furstenberg and Jeremy Scott. In 2015, Louis Vuitton's creative director Nicolas Ghesquière discovered Teddy Quinlivan, and her career boomed. 'The team at SI has created yet another groundbreaking issue by bringing together a diverse set of multitalented, beautiful women in a creative and dignified way,' she told Vogue in 2020. 'I am excited and honored to be part. In 2020, she made history again when she became the first trans model to appear in Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue. In 2019, Sampaio revealed she was working with Victoria's Secret, less than a year after the CMO said the company wouldn't hire a trans model. The fashion industry is an instrument to raise flags promoting diversity, where things are more fluid and beauty evolves.

'My cover is another small step - an important step that shows we have the force to be Vogue cover girls. 'The world has taken huge steps for transgender people in recent years,' Sampaio told Buzzfeed in 2017. She followed up the historic moment by also appearing on the covers of Brazilian Vogue and German Vogue. In 2017, Valentina Sampaio made headlines when she became the first openly transgender model to be on the cover of Vogue Paris. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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