"I didn't think being married or having children would be an obstacle in my life. It just wasn't meant to be for me."
But as the first trans woman to walk down the aisle on Married at First Sight, Ella Morgan Clark will follow this path on television.
She signed up for the reality show, where experts confront strangers who then live together as part of an experiment, after struggling in the field. dating scene.
Ella says she participated because in the past , she felt fetishized "or like a dirty secret and I know I'm much more than that."
"No one has ever really fully accepted me ", she told BBC Newsbeat.
"I thought it would be easier once I had my operation.
"I didn't think being married or having children would be an obstacle in my life. It just wasn't meant to be for me."
But as the first trans woman to walk down the aisle on Married at First Sight, Ella Morgan Clark will follow this path on television.
She signed up for the reality show, where experts confront strangers who then live together as part of an experiment, after struggling in the field. dating scene.
Ella says she participated because in the past , she felt fetishized "or like a dirty secret and I know I'm much more than that."
"No one has ever really fully accepted me ", she told BBC Newsbeat.
"I thought it would be easier once I had my operation.