Jamie Lee Curtis’ Second Child, Ruby, Transitioned from a Man to a Woman
“Perfect” actress Jamie Lee Curtis always wanted kids. For several years after marrying her husband, comedy director Christopher Guest, the two tried to have their own but struggled intensely with infertility issues.
Eventually, when all efforts proved futile, the actress and her husband decided to adopt. The “True Lies” actress revealed that adoption was the only way they could be a family, as a family never felt complete until a child was involved.
Curtis and Guest had only been married for two years when they welcomed their little girl home in an open adoption. They took her home soon after her birth in 1986. While the couple had “sought” to adopt Annie, welcoming their second baby, Ruby (then Thomas), was not as planned.
Curtis disclosed that a set of circumstances surrounding the birth resulted in Ruby’s adoption. The actress participated in the birth ceremony, cut the umbilical cord, and was the first person to hold Ruby. She shared the experience, saying:
“I thought, I have very thoroughly lived a life. The birth of my [daughter] changed me.”
With her two children, she finally felt that her family was complete. However, she’d never been prepared to face the shock of her daughter coming out as transgender. Named Tom after birth, Ruby started struggling with her gender identity at 16 when a friend asked her what gender she was.
Even though she answered by saying she was male, the thought stayed with her for a long time. She’d always felt different, but after a horrible therapy experience, she decided not to come out. Seven years later, she told her girlfriend she was probably transgender, and the partner assured her she would love her no matter what.
Accepting herself was, however, easier than coming out to her parents. But despite how terrifying it was for Ruby, she knew everything would turn out fine as her parents had been accepting of her all her life. She shared:
“It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me they didn’t know. It was intimidating — but I wasn’t worried. They had been so accepting of me my entire life.”
In 2020, she sat her parents down in their Los Angeles home, ready to tell her secret, but couldn’t. She left her house, texted her mother, and spilled the beans. Curtis’s daughter admitted to tears being involved. While Curtis has accepted Ruby wholeheartedly, she and her husband still struggle with the appropriate pronouns.
Luckily, Ruby understands and does not get mad at them for that; instead, she’s treating it as a learning curve. Despite the mess-ups and slips, Curtis has remained supportive of her daughter. After her 2021 engagement with her partner, Kynthia, Ruby was thrilled about her May 2022 cosplay wedding.
Curtis was equally excited for her daughter’s big day and announced that she would don her cosplay attire, which she ordered from Etsy, as she officiated the wedding. Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, the actress also revealed that the wedding would be held in her backyard, where they had her older daughter Annie’s wedding three years earlier. She shared that they would have a picnic, adding:
On the big day — May 29, 2022 — Ruby exchanged vows with Kynthia, dressed in cosplay costumes. Ruby cosplayed Squigly from the mobile game “Skullgirls” while Kynthia cosplayed Elphelt Valentine from “Guilty Gear.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, clad in the garb of “World of Warcraft”‘s Jaina Proudmoore, posted beautiful photos of the festivity on her Instagram, captioning one of the photos with the words: “WIFE IS SWEET!” alongside the names Ruby and Kynthia and the date of the wedding. The last celebrity is super close to his private and adult daughter.
