Jamie Lee Curtis Says She Gave Her Oscars Statue ‘They/Them’ Pronouns in ‘Support’ of Daughter Ruby

Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that she gave her Oscar they/them pronouns successful a caller interrogation with Today  on Tuesday, March 14. While showing disconnected her Academy Award, the actress, 64, admitted that she decided to springiness the grant gender-neutral pronouns arsenic a amusement of emotion for her daughter Ruby, 27, who is transgender.

“In enactment of my girl Ruby, I’m having them beryllium a ‘they/them,’” Jamie Lee Curtis said astir her #Oscars trophy. pic.twitter.com/h9Ik0SNBzE

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) March 14, 2023

When Savannah Guthrie asked if Jamie had named the Oscar statue, the Halloween star revealed that she didn’t, but she had been referring to the trophy with gender-neutral pronouns. “In support of my girl Ruby, I’m having them beryllium a they/them. I’m going to conscionable telephone them them,” she said. “They are doing great, and they’re settling in, and I conscionable couldn’t successful my life, I ne'er thought successful a cardinal years that I would person this mates days, and I’m precise moved by the full thing.”

Jamie had revealed that her daughter was transgender backmost successful a July 2021 interrogation with AARP The Magazine. The outlet said that she and her husband Christopher Guest “watched successful wonderment and pridefulness arsenic our lad became our girl Ruby. And she and her fiancé volition get joined adjacent twelvemonth astatine a wedding that I volition officiate.”

Jamie and Ruby grin unneurotic astatine the premiere of ‘Halloween Ends.’ ( Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Earlier successful the interview, Jamie teared up portion watching her acceptance speech, revealing that she hadn’t gotten a accidental to ticker it since she won the Best Supporting Actress grant connected Sunday night. It was a precise saccharine infinitesimal to get to spot her absorption to the astonishing win.

Jamie’s triumph for her relation in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which besides won a ton of different awards including Best Picture, was her archetypal ever Academy Award win. In her acceptance speech, she thanked her parents who were besides Oscar nominees themselves.

Jamie smiles with her Academy Award. (David Fisher/Shutterstock)

Later successful the interview, she got a small choked up again, portion speaking astir her parents and yet being capable to triumph an award. “They’ve been my beauteous shadiness my full life,” she said. “They were some nominated for Oscars and ne'er won one.”

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