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Tommy Dorfman and her husband Peter Zurkuhlen have called it quits after five years of marriage.<\/p>\n
The ’13 Reasons Why’ star came out as transgender in July 2021, and now, her husband Peter Zurkuhlen has submitted documents, obtained by TMZ this week, to end their marriage after five years.<\/p>\n
The pair became engaged in April 2015, after meeting through a mutual friend, and tied the knot a year later.<\/p>\n
Tommy previously admitted the pair had transitioned into friends rather than lovers.<\/p>\n
She said: “I was in a nine-year relationship in which I was thought of as a more male-bodied person, with a gay man.<\/p>\n
“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. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo we’ve had incredible conversations to redefine our relationship as friends.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tommy previously explained that her \u201cspirit was attuned to whatever it means to be a woman\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cA trans elder asked me what I see myself as when I’m older, when I’m 60, 70, 90. It was so clear, I just saw Cate Blanchett. But I really couldn’t imagine not being a mother or a grandmother.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy spirit was so attuned to whatever it means to be a woman. I’ve walked in the privilege of a male body, but [being a woman] is all I’ve known on the inside. <\/p>\n
\u201cTrans women would clock me all the time and be like, ‘Hey, girl, what’s up?’ because it’s sort of a thing you recognise.”<\/p>\n
Tommy has received positive reactions from unexpected places since coming out, including from people she grew up with that she thought she would \u201cnever see again\u201d.<\/p>\n
She added: “There are some people that I grew up with in the South who I thought I was never going to see again. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo it was nice to get text messages and calls from people I grew up going to NASCAR with or who you would expect to be incredibly conservative and not accepting. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut to see me, someone they knew as a child, stepping into this space in a public way helped them wrap their heads around it.”<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old actress has been taking hormones and is already seeing the positive effects.<\/p>\n
She said in August: “I just switched my hormones, and I’ve never felt better in my life. <\/p>\n
\u201cI spent 28 years of my life suicidal and depressed and recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t think I’ve ever been genuinely happy until this past year. 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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tommy Dorfman and her husband Peter Zurkuhlen have called it quits after five years of marriage. The ’13 Reasons Why’ star came out as transgender in July 2021, and now, her husband Peter Zurkuhlen has submitted documents, obtained by TMZ this week, to end their marriage after five years. The pair became engaged in April […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}