Avery Jae Clementine (born 14 March 1996), known professionally as AJ Clementine, is a Filipino-Australian model, actress, social media content creator,

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, and writer. She is the first

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person to model for the Australian clothing manufacturer Bonds, and made her runway debut in 2021 at Melbourne Fashion Week. In 2022, she authored the memoir ''Girl, Transcending: Becoming the woman I was born to be''.

Early life and transition

Clementine grew up with her mother and stepfather and her brother, Dane, and half-siblings Kiana and Sean. She also has a half-sister, Kali, from her biological father's second marriage. She is of

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descent through her mother, who immigrated to Australia from the Philippines. Clementine, who was assigned male at birth but found out later in life she was born intersex, began socially transitioning into a woman at the age of sixteen. She underwent

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surgery at the age of 22.

Career

Clementine uses the stage name AJ Clementine on her social media platforms, including

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, and

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. She is represented by the talent agency Precision MGMT. In 2020, she was a featured model as part of a partnership between

and

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. Later that year, Clementine walked the runway at the Priceline Pharmacy for Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival and became the first transgender model for the Australian clothing manufacturer Bonds. Also in 2020, Clementine became an ambassador for the Australian youth organisation Minus18 and released her own

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palette as part of a collaboration with Australis Cosmentics. In 2021, she had brand partnerships with MECCA Australia,

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, and

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. In that year, she amassed 1.5 million followers on TikTok. She partnered with the French social media networking app Yubo for

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in 2021, the theme of which was Mental Health in an Unequal World. In 2024, she met her boyfriend Jacob Lucas, a professional dating coach and social media influencer. They became engaged on 4 April 2025.

Memoir

In 2022, she authored the memoir ''Girl, Transcending: Becoming the woman I was born to be''.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clementine, AJ Living people 1996 births Australian female models Australian transgender women Australian transgender entertainers Australian transgender writers Australian people of Filipino descent Australian LGBTQ models Australian women activists Australian women memoirists LGBTQ TikTokers Models from Melbourne Transgender female models Transgender rights activists Writers from Melbourne 21st-century Australian LGBTQ people