Airyn De Niro opens up about love and dating: ‘It’s not easy’

Airyn De Niro, the transgender daughter of Oscar-winning actor Robert, has said she doesn’t find dating easy.

She publicly discussed her transition for the first time in April after stories appeared in tabloids such as the Daily Mail about her “shock transformation”. Now, speaking exclusively to PinkNews, Airyn discussed the topic of dating and how she approached it as the daughter of a celebrity.

“I told myself that I would not tell anybody about my parents until they said [first]: ‘I love you’,” she said.

She did this with her first boyfriend but as she transitioned decided to just get it out of the way and tell them “after we’ve talked for a bit”.

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Airyn De Niro – Robert De Niro’s trans daughter – has opened up about her dating life as the child of high profile parents. Speaking exclusively to PinkNews, she shares that she used to keep her parents’ identity to herself when dating someone new and would only reveal this information after they said ‘I love you’ first. However now that she’s stepped into her identity more, she “gets it out of the way” and tells a potential partner about her parents sooner. Airyn says she was in a relationship for 10 years and she met her then partner on Tinder, but they mutually ended the relationship about a year ago. She’s currently on dating apps Raya and Hinge. “The person that I’m talking to now, he’s very sweet. He lives a state or two away. We haven’t met yet, so we’ve just been FaceTiming pretty much every day and it’s been really nice just getting to know the person.” “I’m not a hookup person at all […] I’ve had way too many experiences where my sexual health was put at risk, and so I don’t want to go through that again.” She says she would like to take it slow instead, date for a while, settle down and get married. “I would love to have a family one day.” #robertdeniro #airyndeniro #transwoman #transgender #dating #lgbtqia

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She went on to reveal that she had been “in a relationship for 10 years,” after meeting the person on Tinder. “We decided to end things about a year ago,” she added.

At the moment, she is on dating apps Raya and Hinge, and is talking to someone on the latter. “He’s very sweet. He lives a state or two away [so] we haven’t met yet,” she said. “We’ve just been face-timing pretty much every day and it’s been really nice just getting to know the person.”

Although “not a hook-up person” herself, she said: “Kudos to those people.” But after “way too many experiences” that put her sexual health at risk, Airyn wasn’t going to let that happen again.

“Honestly, I would like to take it slow with someone and date for a while and hopefully get married. I would love to have a family one day, but it’s not easy.”

After Airyn publicly came out as a trans woman in an interview with Them last month, her father, the star of hit movies from Raging Bull, The Godfather Part Two and Taxi Driver, to the more-recent Killers of the Flower Moon, said he would always “love and support” her.

Airyn also told PinkNews that her dad had offered to go with her to access gender-affirming hormones.

After coming out, Airyn thanked family and friends as well as the public for their support.

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