Andrej Pejić (pronounced Andréi Page) (born August 28, 1991 in
Tuzla,
SR Bosnia-Herzegovina,
SFR Yugoslavia) is an
Australian androgynous male model.

Pejic was born in
Tuzla. He has one older brother Igor. Their mother, Jadranka Savić,
is Serbian and their father, Vlada Pejić, Croatian. The parents divorced shortly after Andrej's birth. During the
Bosnian War, he fled to
Serbia with his mother, brother and grandmother, settling in a refugee camp near
Belgrade. When asked if he found his childhood difficult, Pejic said:
“ |
No, I was
happy. The camp was a community. We went to school and I had lots of
friends – mainly girls. Everybody played outside. My memories are very
carefree. |
” |

After refugee camp, the family settled in
Vojska village near
Svilajnac.
Andrej met his father for the first time when he was four years old.
His mother wanted him to have a relationship with his dad so he and
brother Igor would spend a month every summer with their dad.
After the
1999 NATO bombing of Serbia,
Pejic's mother felt unsafe and decided to initiate immigration process
for Australia. In 2000 the family moved to Melbourne, Australia as
political refugees when Pejic was eight years old.
It has been reported that he was scouted just before his 17th birthday whilst working at
McDonald's,
but he has also stated he was scouted at a swimming pool whilst still in high school in Melbourne, Australia.
He is notable for his extreme
androgyny and his ability to successfully model both male and female clothing.

In the Paris fashion shows of January 2011 he walked both the men's and women's shows for
Jean-Paul Gaultier and the men's shows for
Marc Jacobs. In May 2011, Pejic's magazine cover for the New York-based magazine
Dossier Journal - in which he is pictured taking off his shirt with his long blond locks in curlers - was ruled too risqué by US bookstores
Barnes & Noble and
Borders, which covered the image with an opaque sleeve.
Concerns were expressed that customers would mistake him for a topless woman.
As of September 2011, he ranks no. 18 on the models.com Top 50 Male Models list,
and he was ranked no. 98 in
FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011,
an 'award' that caused controversy with a transphobic subtext that was removed from FHM's website.
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