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Shiloh Jolie Pitt, Charlize Theron’s Jackson, a Spice Girls mini-me and 3 other transgender and gender fluid celebrity children breaking boundaries and living their most authentic lives

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Charlize and Jackson Theron and Emma Bunton and Tate Lee Jones. Photos: YouTube, Instagram, Getty Images
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Charlize and Jackson Theron and Emma Bunton and Tate Lee Jones. Photos: YouTube, Instagram, Getty Images
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Finding your truth and being your authentic self is already tough for most teenagers, so imagine trying to do so when you’re the child of a famous celebrity. Even more so when you don’t identify with the gender assigned to you at birth. 
Fortunately, celebrity children like Shiloh Jolie Pitt and Jackson Theron, thanks to the support of their famous parents, are able to be and celebrate their true selves. Here are four more celebrity children breaking gender boundaries.

Brad and Angelina’s Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, aged 14

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Angelina Jolie and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. Photo: @shilohjoliepittuk/Instagram
Angelina Jolie and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. Photo: @shilohjoliepittuk/Instagram
When you’re the child of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, life is going to be unusual. And much like her famous actor parents, Shiloh is no stereotypical teenager.
At a young age, Shiloh knew herself, instantly breaking the mould and defying expectations of who and what she should be. In a 2008 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Pitt first opened up about raising Shiloh, saying: “She only wants to be called John. John or Peter. It’s a Peter Pan thing. And then I’ll say, ‘John, would you like some orange juice?’ And she goes, ‘No!’”
Angelina Jolie poses with her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt during the European premiere of Disney’s dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019 in Rome. Photo: FABI/AFP via Getty Images
Angelina Jolie poses with her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt during the European premiere of Disney’s dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019 in Rome. Photo: FABI/AFP via Getty Images

Jolie told Vanity Fair in a 2010 interview that Shiloh has been exploring her gender since she was three. “She wants to be a boy,” Jolie said. “So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boy clothes. She thinks she’s one of her brothers.”

Since then, Shiloh, who turned 14 this year, has become an LGBTQ+ icon to young kids around the world.

Charlize Theron’s Jackson, aged nine