Overview

• The 2021 Germany’s Next Topmodel winner, the show’s first trans champion, has published a candid account of her childhood, coming-out panic and experiences with public scrutiny.
• She writes that she was raped at a party and explains the lengthy process of recognizing the assault and naming it as such.
• Peter links a period of significant weight gain after GNTM to that trauma and discusses recovery through boundary-setting and self-protection.
• She began writing in early 2024 during a personal and career crisis, using the project to examine identity, purpose and unresolved grief.
• Publication-week interviews detail a lonely upbringing, her father’s death in 2020 and her occasional, respectful contact with Heidi Klum.