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Tommy Dorfmanand her husband, Peter Zurkuhlen, are going their separate ways.
The13 Reasons Why Starand Zurkuhlen are divorcing after over five years of marriage. Dorfman and her husband first met through a mutual friend in 2005, according toTMZ. After getting engaged in 2015, they wed in Portland, Maine in 2016.
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Dorfmancame out as transgenderin a JulyTimemagazine profile after “privately identifying and living as a woman” for a year prior. At the time, she explained how her transition had changed her relationship with her husband.
“Personally, it’s wild to be 29 and going through puberty again. Some days I feel like I’m 14. As a result of that shift, the types of romantic partnerships I seek out are different,” Dorfman toldTime.
She explained, “I was in a nine-year relationship in which I was thought of as a more male-bodied person, with a gay man. I love him so much, but we’ve been learning that as a trans woman, what I’m interested in is not necessarily reflected in a gay man.”
“So we’ve had incredible conversations to redefine our relationship as friends,” she said. “Transitioning has been liberating and clarifying.”
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Shortly after theTimeprofile was published, Zurkuhlen publiclyexpressed supportfor Dorfman on Instagram, where he re-posted a photo from Dorfman’sTimephotoshoot.
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Dorfmanopened upabout life since publicly coming out as transgender in an AugustInStylecover story. At the time, she told the magazine she had “never felt better.”
“I just switched my hormones, and I’ve never felt better in my life. I spent 28 years of my life suicidal and depressed and recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction. I don’t think I’ve ever been genuinely happy until this past year,” Dorfman said.
She added, “I look at the Internet chronicle of photos of me since I started working, and I can see how f—— unhappy I was in every photo. It’s wild.”
source: people.com
