Lili
Lili Elbe was "born" one day while filling in for Gerda's absentee model; Gerda asked Lili to wear stockings and heels so that she could substitute Einar's legs for those of her model. Lili felt surprisingly comfortable in the clothing. Over time, Gerda became famous for her paintings of beautiful women with haunting almond-shaped eyes dressed in chic fashions. In approximately 1913, the unsuspecting public was shocked to discover that the model who had inspired Gerda's depictions of petite femmes fatales was in fact Lili.
After that, in the 1920s and 1930s Wegener regularly presented as a woman, attending various festivities and entertained guests in her house as Lili Elbe. One of the things Lili liked to do was to disappear, wearing her modeling fashions into the streets of Paris in the throngs of revelers during the Carnival. Only her closest friends knew that she was transsexual and to others, Elbe was introduced by Gerda as Einar's sister.
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