I'm having a sex change, says mentor of Lennox Lewis
Manager of British former world heavyweight champion is living as a woman named Kellie
Frank Maloney, the man behind Britain's former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis' march to the top, is undergoing a sex change and living as a woman named Kellie, she told a British newspaper.
The Englishwoman, 61, who stood for election to be London mayor for the UKIP Party in 2004, has been married twice and has two daughters, but said she had always felt she was a woman.
"I was born in the wrong body and I have always known I was a woman," said Kellie, who as Frank Maloney engineered Lewis' 1993 world heavyweight title victory.
I was born in the wrong body and I have always known I was a woman. I can't keep living in the shadows, that is why I am doing what I am today. Living with the burden any longer would have killed me
"I can't keep living in the shadows, that is why I am doing what I am today. Living with the burden any longer would have killed me.
"What was wrong at birth is now being medically corrected. I have a female brain. I knew I was different from the minute I could compare myself to the other children.
"I wasn't in the right body. I was jealous of girls."
Maloney, who once had aspirations to be a Catholic priest, but grew disillusioned when he started studying to become one, told the Sunday Mirror she had not felt it possible to reveal her secret desire to those involved in boxing.
"I thought maybe I can earn enough money that one day I can disappear and live a new life completely away as a female and no one would ever bother me," said Maloney, who ended his involvement in boxing last October.