Gigi Gorgeous Gets Candid About Stealing 'Addiction' in Memoir: 'I Could Compare It to a Drug'

Gigi Gorgeous has become known for baring her heart to the world in Youtube videos about transitioning, starting a family and sexual reassignment surgery. Now, the viral Internet star is getting even more vulnerable in her candid memoir, He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey. 

As she details her personal journey transitioning from Gregory to Gigi, the star also goes deeper than ever before about her struggles and demons, like an “addiction” to stealing she faced as a teen.

“I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don’t mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction,” Gigi recalls in her memoir.

At the time, Gigi says she was still “plain old Gregory,” but wanted to begin experimenting with makeup. Since she was ashamed to walk into a drugstore and buy makeup for herself, she “ended up stealing [it] instead.”

“It was easier emotionally, less invasive, I guess. And it was also kind of a thrill. I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all,” she writes as she goes on to admit she is or has also been addicted to fame, drinking, partying, Facetune, vanity, love, traveling and cute animals.

As her stealing escalated, Gigi made a pact to herself that she would steal every day for an entire year. “I have no idea why I did this,” she admits. “It’s f—ed! And not the good ‘f—ed!’”

Gigi went from stealing Bed Head After-Party leave-in conditioner at Sally’s Beauty Supply to snatching big ticket, luxury beauty items in a matter of time. “Stealing was a rush to me, more about the feeling than the thing I was stealing. I f—ing loved it. I could compare it to a drug, it was so addictive,” the star says.

Stealing eventually became what Gigi describes as a “hobby” for herself, until the day she got blacklisted from a mall for getting caught taking foundation and other makeup from a M.A.C Cosmetics store.

“I totally had an addiction to material things. I could buy this stuff, but it was more of a thrill to take it,” she says. But ultimately, the thinks it became “an outlet to escape” what she was really feeling.

Gigi writes, “I was definitely suppressing my thoughts about being transgender. I knew I was gay, yes, but I wasn’t totally happy with my gay identity. I knew something else was going on with me. I saw everyone else as ‘normal’ and myself as messed up in a way. And all of that made me so angry. Stealing allowed me to take my anger out on something else.”

For more candid stories from Gigi, pick up her memoir, He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey, available at bookstores and Amazon now.

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