Trans icon Vivian Jenna Wilson lands first modelling gig with queer clothing brand
Trans influencer Vivian Jenna Wilson and Drag Race star Jasmine Kennedie. (Getty)
Trans influencer Vivian Jenna Wilson and Drag Race star Jasmine Kennedie. (Getty)
Trans influencer Vivian Jenna Wilson – the estranged daughter of controversial tech CEO Elon Musk – has landed her first modelling gig with a queer clothing brand.
The 21-year-old TikTok star and LGBTQ+ activist, who in May celebrated her half-decade anniversary since coming out as trans, posted a series of shots from her latest achievement on Instagram over the weekend.
Sporting a 40-foot-long braid that spelled out her first name and wearing black sunglasses, Vivian Jenna Wilson looked every bit the supermodel.
The shoot, for WILDFANG, featured her in a pair of oversized black shorts and a matching waistcoat worn over a patterned shirt.
“Existing shouldn’t be revolutionary”
Her next outfit, also part of the brand’s gender-inclusive Empower collection, was a floral suit co-ord with a matching tie. Her final look was a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Existing shouldn’t be revolutionary”, which she co-designed, paired with lilac trousers. The proceeds from the top will go to The Trevor Project – a non-profit organisation championing suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.
Vivian Jenna Wilson captioned the photos: “Going from wearing @wearewildfang to modelling for them✨.”
She added: “Unrelated but now I have about 40 feet of blonde kanekalon that I don’t know what to do with.”
Speaking to People about the shoot, she said: “I saw myself in the mirror, and I was kind of like, ‘Oh, s**t. I’m gorgeous,’”
She told the publication that the top she co-created felt authentic to her.
“”It was just like, ‘Oh, okay, this is perfect. Love it. Let’s just go with that,'” she said of the top’s text.
In May, Wilson suggested that she wanted to take her drag obsession to the next level, even suggesting she could create her own persona.
Vivian Jenna Wilson has been very outspoken online about her father, Elon Musk, starting after he made a series of wild claims in July 2024, including that she had been “killed [by the] woke mind virus”.
She responded in a series of posts in which she said she looked “pretty good for a dead b***h”.
Then, in August 2024, she branded the content of a book about her billionaire father defamatory.
In a scathing social media post, Vivian Jenna Wilson took aim at a biography written by Walter Isaacson.Wilson argued on Threads – Meta’s rival to X/Twitter – that the book had defamed her and that she was treated as a “villain backstory-origin” or “excuse [to] explain away [Musk’s] behaviour”.
She continued: “Elon was your darling Tony Stark apartheid-American hero with a semi-tragic backstory who was saving the world and you were too f**king cowardly to write anything other than a sad excuse for a puff-piece
“To further this goal, you portrayed me in a light that is genuinely defamatory and I’m not going to mince my words.”
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