A transsexual who had a £10,000 sex change to become a woman now wants to undergo £14,000 of surgery so she can become a man again.
Chelsea Attonley, 30, who was born a boy and called Matthew, said she now finds being a woman 'exhausting', is tired of putting on make-up and wearing heels, and now accepts that she should always have stayed a man.
Chelsea said she had struggled with her identity while growing up in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and as a child she would dress up in women's clothes.
In her twenties she became a drag queen known as Miss Malibu, drawing on glamour model Katie Price's look for inspiration.
An initial bid for a sex change to become a woman was turned down by a doctor, sending Chelsea into a spiral of depression, she said.
But now, seven years after surgery to become a woman, Chelsea wants to go back to being a man.
Chelsea, told a magazine yesterday she finds dressing and acting as a girl 'exhausting' and feels she has never been fully accepted as a real woman.
She is aiming to have a breast reduction and painful gender reassignment surgery to give her back a penis at a total cost of £14,000.
Chelsea, now living in London, said: 'I have always longed to be a woman, but no amount of surgery can give me an actual female body and I feel like I am living a lie.
'It is exhausting putting on make-up and wearing heels all the time. Even then I don't feel I look like a proper woman.
'I suffered from depression and anxiety as a result of the hormones too.
'I have realised it would be easier to stop fighting the way I look naturally and accept that I was born a man physically.'
'Now I have decided I want to live as Matthew, I am desperate to have my FF-cup boobs removed,' she said.
'I can't afford to have them done privately, so I am hoping to have the op on the NHS.
'I can't work at the moment because I am too upset after what I have been through.
'I am considering having penis reconstruction too.
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