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Kim Petras has no f***s left to give.<\/p>\n

Three years after her historic Grammy-winning collab with Sam Smith<\/a> on “Unholy,” the German singer is reflecting on her new self-released album, leaving the industry in the dust, and regrets about being so public about her transition before she turned 13.<\/p>\n\n

She confessed to having no marketing budget, being dependent on sponsors and “partnering with people” to make her new album Detour.<\/p>\n

“If you work with the wrong people who don\u2019t care about the artist and the artistry first, it becomes about money,” Petras told The Fader<\/a>. “You become a product and you become a joke in many ways. That\u2019s what it felt like to me.”<\/p>\n

Whether it was touring for “Unholy” or dealing with corporate assholes, Petras said “it all felt pointless.” She also recalled being repulsed when one label executive told her: “You\u2019re our first trans artist.”<\/p>\n

“That felt icky. It just didn\u2019t feel good, being paraded. I want to be an artist. It just means not doing things that don\u2019t fulfill me, like I just played Berghain and that was amazing.” <\/p>\n

In her new interview with The Fader<\/a>, Petras explained how her new song “Brutalist“<\/i> marks her first time addressing her transgender identity.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s the story of my dad and I driving around in Germany to get my hormone therapy when I was a kid,” Petras said. “Now that I\u2019m in America, there\u2019s so much shame around sex, sexual education is such a taboo, and it\u2019s such a weird climate right now, especially about trans kids in particular. They\u2019re the enemy right now… in this political climate. I\u2019m happy I can stand for trans kids who can transition and then be a grown up. I made the right choices that I\u2019m proud of to this day.”<\/p>\n

Petras is also clapping back at haters who say she transitioned at too young of an age and ‘ruined’ the course of her life.<\/p>\n

“I have people saying I ruined my body and I ruined my life. They don\u2019t know me at all. They don\u2019t know my history, that I went to so many psychologists and so many doctors and that it was a real thing that had an assessment. It saved my life and then there\u2019s people who are like, ‘This saved your life, but you ruined everything.'”<\/p>\n

Detour<\/a> is available now on all platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.out.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kim Petras has no f***s left to give. Three years after her historic Grammy-winning collab with Sam Smith on “Unholy,” the German singer is reflecting on her new self-released album, leaving the industry in the dust, and regrets about being so public about her transition before she turned 13. She confessed to having no marketing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2437537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22847,21751,353015,42346,478382,346975,21800,21940,307421,478383,399085,373626,478384,431914],"class_list":["post-2437536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-album","tag-celebrities","tag-germany","tag-grammy-awards","tag-hormone-therapy","tag-kim-petras","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-sam-smith","tag-teen","tag-trans","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-woman","tag-transition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kim-Petras-says-shes-proud-that-she-transitioned-at-12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437538,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437536\/revisions\/2437538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}