From “Hot Girl” to “Big Guy”: Former Model Jade Runk Gave Up External Validation to Find Themself

In this episode of What’s Underneath, former model Jade Runk reflects on a total rebirth sparked by a single question: “Am I a woman just because everyone around me has been telling me I am?” After spending decades as a professional model, praised for how their conventionally attractive appearance made them marketable, approachable, and pleasing to others, accepting their true self radically changed, and ultimately unlocked their most liberated reality. Through coming out as non-binary, transitioning, and dressing entirely for themselves, Jade began aligning how they look on the outside with how they have always felt on the inside—and finally rediscovered their desire to live. This interview explores the cost of being rewarded for self-erasure as a model, and the boundless joy that comes from living a life that honors exactly who you are. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@StyleLikeU1 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://shorturl.at/nv4xP Follow Jade on instagram https://www.instagram.com/jennierunk/?hl=en FOLLOW STYLELIKEU ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/stylelikeu/?hl=en FOLLOW ELISA GOODKIND ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/elisagoodkind/?hl=en Director: Lily Mandelbaum Creative Producer: Elisa Goodkind Producer, videographer, thumbnail, assistant editor: Eugenia Druzhinina Editor: Chris Huth Casting/PA: India Isaacson