Hunter Schafer underwent bottom surgery, the “Euphoria” star revealed.
“I just had butt surgery in December, which was amazing, and I love it so much,” Schafer told Elle magazine, referring to gender-affirming surgery that changes a person’s genitals to align with their gender identity.
“For a long time, I embraced the gender-expansive part of myself, and I really wanted to try to make that previous body work, because I thought there was something really cool and badass about it,” she said. But, according to Elle, Schafer described “hitting a wall again and again where this queer theoretical utopia didn’t fit the world she encountered daily and how she personally wanted to appear in it.” Although every trans person is different, medically transitioning was the right decision for Schafer.
Schafer described this ability to evolve as “the magical thing about homosexuality” – that “ideologically, it’s about possibility and expansion and growth, about being on this journey and finding yourself.” Although she always viewed her gender identity as more fluid, it has now landed in a “flatter” place, she described. “I’m a woman. I’m a girl,” she said. To reach this conclusion, Schafer had to confront homosexuality as a philosophy “in relation to how it applies and functions in real life, in the context of the world in which we live.” She said: “I feel like there’s still a tension there. »
Schafer described her recovery from bottom surgery in early 2026, noting that she rented a large apartment and was visited by friends and family while she had to stay flat. “I think my limit was 150 steps a day, which is nothing,” she said of her doctor’s prescriptions.
Schafer, who will next be seen alongside Michelle Yeoh in the Amazon miniseries “Blade Runner 2099,” spoke a few years ago about not wanting her identity to overshadow her work, saying she herself had tried to avoid saying the word “trans” in interviews. “This in no way happened naturally. If I let that happen, it would always mean giving ‘Transsexual Actress’ before every article,” Schafer told GQ in 2024.
“As soon as I say it, it takes off,” she added of the word “trans” appearing in her interviews. “It took me a while to learn that and it also took me a while to learn that I don’t want to be (reduced to) that, and I ultimately find it demeaning to me and to what I want to do. Especially after high school, I was tired of talking about it. I worked so hard to get to where I am, after those very difficult times of my transition, and now I just want to be a girl and finally move on.”
Schafer acknowledged in that interview that “it’s a privilege” to be able to shift her focus beyond her gender identity, saying, “It was very intentional. I’ve been offered tons of trans roles, and I just don’t want to do it. I don’t want to talk about it.”
“I know for a fact that I’m one of the most famous trans people in media right now, and I feel a sense of responsibility, and maybe a little guilt, for not being more of a spokesperson,” Schafer concluded. “But ultimately, I really believe that not making it the centerpiece of what I do will allow me to go further. And I think going further and doing awesome things, for the sake of the ‘movement,’ will be much more helpful than talking about it all the time.”
Schafer’s first acting rule was as Jules in the HBO hit “Euphoria,” which made her a celebrity — and a role model for trans people — in her early 20s. His other roles include “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Serpents” and the Neon horror film “Cuckoo.”
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