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        Secret Deodorant’s New Ad Spotlights Trans Woman
    “There’s no wrong way to be a woman.”
 Glenn Garner Oct 27, 2016
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Trans artist Karis Wilde is the new face of Secret.
As a group of women enters a public (yet chic) bathroom, Wilde waits in a stall, anxiously working up the nerve to exit. Looking fabulous, she musters the courage to join the other ladies who compliment her dress.
"Stress test #8260: Dana finds the courage to show there's no wrong way to be a woman," the text in the ad reads.
Watch Karis Wilde in Secret's new ad below:

        
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