If We're Being Honest With Laverne Cox
originally aired on E!
Laverne Cox was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised by a single mother and grandmother within the AME Zion church. She is the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. She has an identical twin brother, M Lamar, who portrayed the pre-transitioning Sophia (as Marcus) in Orange Is the New Black. Cox has stated that she attempted suicide at the age of 11, when she developed feelings for her male classmates.