On January 23, just days after Donald Trump's inauguration, Hanne Gaby Odiele announced the biggest news of her life: She came out as intersex in USA Today. The 29-year-old model is better known for walking the runway for Givenchy, Prada, and Chanel, but she is now taking on another role as one of the world's most—and some say only—high-profile intersex activist.As defined by the youth advocacy group InterACT, "intersex" is an umbrella term refers to people born with one or more of a range of variations in sex characteristics that fall outside of traditional conceptions of male or female bodies. Hanne was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome, meaning that although she physically appears to be biologically female, she has XY chromosomes and was born with internal, undescended testes.When I meet her in a restaurant a few blocks from her home in Williamsburg, Hanne is in black pants and an embellished black top beneath a cozy green coat. As soon I finish my coffee, she orders champagne and I do the same. We talk about fun stuff: her in-laws visiting for the weekend, her place that her and her husband just bought, their wedding, how they met, and what we both love about New York. But her coming out this year marked the biggest change of her life. "That whole week was a sleepless week," she recalls. "They [ USA Today] called us [her and her husband] and said, 'At four in the morning, it's gonna come out.'"Continue reading on Broadly.