Chaz bono what does cher think

See more here. Cher has opened up about her son's gender identity, admitting that it "wasn't easy" when Chaz Bono, now 51, announced he was transitioning in The singer and Oscar-winning actress, who is considered an icon by many in the LGBTQ community, described the journey she went through as a mother, from when Bono -- then known as Chastity -- first came out as a lesbian.

And he would say, 'No, I don't want to transition. And then he went and said, 'OK, I want to do this. They just are in a different shape," she said. Bono, an actor and the first transgender person to appear on "Dancing with the Stars," is now "so unbelievably happy," she added. Like I remember calling, and the old message — the old Chaz message was on the phone — and that was very difficult. But then you have one child, but you don't really lose them — they just are in a different shape.

Chaz is Cher's only child with her late husband and former singing partner, Sonny Bono, who died in Chaz made a documentary about the transition process, "Becoming Chaz," that was released in He also became the first transgender person to compete on "Dancing With the Stars" in They're fearful, and they just don't understand how to react to it," Cher said.

While transgender issues have received more attention in recent years than when Chaz transitioned, Cher believes there is still plenty more work to be done. Because I've hardly called her Chastity since her brother was born If I woke up tomorrow in a guy's body, I would just kick and scream and cry and [expletive] rob a bank, because I cannot see myself as anything but who I am -- a girl. I would not take it as well as Chaz has.

I couldn't imagine it. On her roller-coaster marriage to Sonny Bono: "[He treated me] more like a golden goose than like his wife. I forgive him, I think. He hurt me in so many ways, but there was something. He was so much more than a husband—a terrible husband, but a great mentor, a great teacher.

If he had agreed to just disband Cher Enterprises and start all over again, I would have never ever left. Just split it down the middle, On his view of their relationship: "He told me when we were together, 'One day you are going to leave me. You are going to go on and do great things. He said, 'You are a butterfly, meant to be seen by all, not to be kept by one. On how her mother almost aborted her: "My mother told me once about how she got pregnant with me and didn't want to be with my dad; she was just so young and inexperienced.

My grandmother said, 'You have a bright future. And then at the last minute she said, 'I can't do this. I don't care what happens—Ican't do this. On her mother's eight marriages three were to Cher's biological father and many men: "Our life was so chaotic, just one insane moment after another They were all artists and models and dancers.

I remember, once, my mother saying, 'You should have a stable future' and blah, blah, blah. I said, 'I don't think I want a stable future if it's going to be like our neighbors'. I don't want to be like them. On her family's history with drugs and her decision to stay clean: "It's weird, because both of my children had the same drug problems as their fathers -- same drug of choice.

My father was a heroin addict, and my sister's father was an alcoholic. But it jumped us I didn't not do drugs because of moral issues.