13 May 2011
Chaz Bono has revealed he plans to marry partner Jennifer Elia ''within a year''.
Chaz Bono is to marry "within a year".
The 42-year-old star - who was born a woman named Chastity and began gender reassignment surgery around three years ago - revealed he and longterm partner Jennifer Elia have been engaged for a long time and are hoping to tie the knot soon.
Chaz said: "We've been engaged actually for two years and have -- kind of had to put things on hold a little bit.
It was a lot. Now I feel like once this is over, we can sit down and plan a wedding.
"I would say within a year, definitely. Not to make excuses, but we went through a lot. I transitioned. She went to grad school. Then, you know, we were making the film. And I wrote the book.
"It was a lot. Now I feel like once this is over, we can sit down and plan a wedding."
The couple can now officially marry because Chaz is legally considered a man, but he insists he wouldn't have been comfortable with a civil partnership when it was legalised briefly in California in 2008.
Asked if he considered a civil partnership, Chaz - whose parents are singer Cher and her late ex-husband Sonny Bono - told TV talk show host Piers Morgan: "Actually, no, we really weren't, actually.
"We had a window. I knew at that point that I was going to transition. And I didn't -- it just didn't feel right to me to get married as two women because I didn't feel I was a woman."
Source: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Chaz+Bono-39084.html
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