Oil heir, activist and fashion designer Nats Getty on finding love and coming out as transgender
‘Growing up Getty’ is a term we’re all familiar with, but how does the experience differ when you’re from the dynasty itself, and transgender?
It’s a typically sunny morning in Los Angeles when Nats Getty dials in to speak with me via video call. Smoking a cigarette, wearing basketball shorts and a self-designed ‘Getty Oil’ hat from his label Strike Oil (a fun play on the family business), it’s clear that straight-laced dynastic stereotypes stop with Nats. ‘I think I have just always had the attitude of not giving a f*ck,’ says Getty, ‘I say that and I do mean it because I have always just tried to live my life for me.’
Born in 1992, Nats is Ariadne Getty’s first child with Justin Williams. His brother and fellow designer, August, was born two years later. ‘The first time I came out, I was having a panic attack about telling my mum and she said, “Nats, I gave birth to you. I knew the second you were born,”’ Getty says. Growing up between the US and a boarding school in Oxford, Getty’s youth was a fusion of transatlantic cultures. ‘Before I came out as trans, the only way I could describe it is that I was the ultimate tomboy. But when I look back now, I realised that when I was younger, living in LA, and Santa Monica, I was so free, and I wasn't being told what my gender was. I was running around like a little boy. Once I got older in society, people at boarding school started telling me how a girl is supposed to act and look and be, I got really insecure. I had to shift and change how I was acting to fit in. But it was evident from the beginning,’ says Getty.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | July 5, 2025 2:41 AM
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Can't wait for the comments on this one.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 21, 2025 11:32 PM
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Here we go again - the latest rage . People survived over the last fifty years without "transitioning."
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 21, 2025 11:45 PM
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Nats? As in sounds like "Gnats"?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 21, 2025 11:48 PM
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I don't care about his gender but he's definitely an insufferable prick.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 21, 2025 11:50 PM
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Nats's wife stopped taking HRT so as to improve the viability of her sperm because they want children.
I'm not a transphobe but read that sentence.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | June 21, 2025 11:51 PM
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As odd a pairing as they are, Nats and Gigi have been together for a long time and their relationship seems to have greatly improved Nats' physical and mental health. The Tatler article was very funny, though, with a couple passages that read like AbFab dialogue.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 21, 2025 11:59 PM
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So a butch lesbian cosplaying as a man marries a tranny in drag and they’re making gaybies
A little snippet:
…So that was something that was a huge lifestyle change and I just had to basically throw out all of my tucking panties and start living a life untucked."
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 22, 2025 12:01 AM
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Nat's brother August is hot and gay.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | June 22, 2025 12:07 AM
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Gigi Gorgeous, Nats, and August Getty.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | June 22, 2025 12:08 AM
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The article at OP is two years old.
Just sayin'.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 22, 2025 12:10 AM
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"I was running around like a little boy."
Little girls don't-- or shouldn't-- run around, apparently.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 22, 2025 12:26 AM
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I just don't understand wtf is so wrong with being a tomboy? Can anyone explain it to me?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 22, 2025 12:59 AM
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Let's check back in in approximately 12 months... The train is moving toward collision 💥💥💥
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 22, 2025 1:11 AM
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Quit giving nobodies attention. Gays do this all the time.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 22, 2025 7:34 AM
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Yes, r6, they are a loving heterosexual couple.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 3, 2025 11:19 AM
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R2 we don't exactly know that. They might have all committed suicide at 12.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 3, 2025 11:32 AM
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That stupid pic at R9 with the tiny lesbian doing her best at looking nonchalant and cool, her hubby towering over her, and the AI freak next to her. Does he have "Getty Oil" tattooed on his arm? You can tell what god thinks about money by looking at the people he gives it to. Hopefully Gigi freakface will get her knocked up soon so that he will have an anchor into their family.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 3, 2025 12:14 PM
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Gigi was born a boy (Gregory), identified as a gay man later in life, then transitioned to female and changed names to Gigi. This meant Gigi identified as a straight woman (because Gigi's attraction to men remained).
Then Gigi met and fell in love with Nats Getty who was female, so Gigi then identified as a gay woman.
Then Nats transitioned to male, so Gigi then identified as a straight woman again.
I think that's right (very confusing).
Either way, I think Gigi is attracted to money and lifestyle over anything else. Given Gigi was always attracted to men before meeting Nats and then has chosen to stay with Nats as a woman then a man. It doesn't make sense to me.
I'm attracted to men and, call me old-fashioned but if a guy I was dating wanted to transition to female, I'd be high tailing it out of there.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 3, 2025 4:28 PM
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Always with the hideous tattoos.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 3, 2025 4:33 PM
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And to think they named themselves after my favorite Best Picture winner of all time!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 3, 2025 5:11 PM
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R20 I'm pretty sure Gigi comes from money....At least her stepfathers money....I remember back in the days when she was Gregory posting YouTube videos....They were very funny...Funny if you like to laugh at someone trying to be an influencer
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 3, 2025 8:32 PM
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Horrifying human garbage with money.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 3, 2025 8:37 PM
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I'll have one August Getty to go please. No - I don't want any Nats or GG to go with that.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 3, 2025 8:44 PM
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This whole thing confuses me.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 3, 2025 9:04 PM
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R20 - "I'm attracted to men and, call me old-fashioned but if a guy I was dating wanted to transition to female, I'd be high tailing it out of there."
What if it came with luxury homes, several hundred of millions of dollars, tons of connections and luxury travel around the world?
Oh hold up - Nats Getty filed for divorce YESTERDAY! So Gigi Gorgeous is single again!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | July 3, 2025 9:58 PM
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Divorce!!!!! I guess gigi couldn't get Nats knocked up
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 3, 2025 10:04 PM
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The only I care about is Estelle and she's long gone.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 3, 2025 10:05 PM
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This is a big reason GLAAD became so trans. The Gettys are mega funders.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 3, 2025 10:16 PM
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Makes you wonder if there was a prenup involved.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 3, 2025 10:50 PM
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[quote]Oh hold up - Nats Getty filed for divorce YESTERDAY! So Gigi Gorgeous is single again!
It's quite rare for couples to survive a second transition, but I'm curious whether one of them was drawn to someone else. They'll probably deny it, but after nine years together I'd think one or both missed the same-sex relationships they had prior to their relationship.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 3, 2025 11:01 PM
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I'm just glad they didn't bring any kids into the world. That couldn't have ended well.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 3, 2025 11:12 PM
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R5 oh fuck imagine growing up as a child of those two narcissists. And ...
[quote] Growing up Getty’ is a term we’re all familiar with, ...
I never ever heard anyone say that.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 3, 2025 11:16 PM
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R7 No, just straight with extra steps
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 3, 2025 11:17 PM
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Again, Estelle Getty > Gats Getty
Estelle winning her Emmy in 1988
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | July 3, 2025 11:45 PM
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Nats/Gats, Rats is more appropriate.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 3, 2025 11:46 PM
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R11 See also: the "very mindful, very demure" plague of 2024. I don't know what's keeping the trans trad wife movement from demanding that all pride parades be relocated to their husband's ranch in Montana.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 3, 2025 11:49 PM
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Gigi had dogs and then she didn't because it was inconvenient for Nats. Disgusting human.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 4, 2025 1:06 AM
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Estelle Getty on Evening at the Improv
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 43 | July 4, 2025 2:38 AM
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Can't people just be gay?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 4, 2025 2:41 AM
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Nice museum, but the Gerry family is cursed and fucked up. Nat's the most normal one that I've read about. maybe Baltazer, but he's a poor relation, right?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 4, 2025 2:55 AM
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R23 Yes, Gigi does come from money as well, which is probably how she got into the same circle as Nats. But her family's money likely paled into insignificance compared to the Getty fortune.
I remember watching a video years ago where Gigi was with a friend (not Nats) and - for part of it - they were in a restaurant and then later at a fancy hotel. They were both so dismissive and offhand with the staff. I remember they had a personal 'butler' for their hotel room and while he was trying to tell them about the hotel and the service he offered they were just talking over him to each other and ignoring him while the poor guy just stood there smiling and waiting for an opportunity to talk.
It was a couple of small moments but it really summed up how entitled rich people can be. Shudder.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 4, 2025 8:40 AM
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R44 they are both straight with a fetish apparently, but mostly they love themselves.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 4, 2025 9:52 AM
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r49, I call that syndrome "Tiny Doll Mouth", or TDM!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 4, 2025 11:14 PM
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Wasn't Trish Paytas Gigi's best friend back in the day? Another disgusting human.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 5, 2025 2:41 AM
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