Christmas Day nearly three years ago, one of Britain's best-known sports personalities woke up in a London park; two dogs were licking his face, a smashed bottle of wine lay by his side, and prescription pills were strewn across the ground
"That's Frank Maloney!" exclaimed one of the small crowd who had gathered around the bewildered man, better recognized as the tough-talking manager behind former heavyweight champion of the world Lennox Lewis
The search for human happiness or will I say The pursuit of Happiness increases everyday, the former promoter of Lennox Lewis 'Frank Maloney', has found happiness in becoming a woman in a man's world. Frank Maloney now Kellie Maloney
The rise of the Internet opened up a new world of information about transsexuals, far beyond that first newspaper clipping about April Ashley. But as Maloney stayed up late at night reading their stories and contacting counselors, she also saw the media's power to destroy.
Even when she was still a man she goes secretly to buy women clothing's, Maloney continued buying women's clothes in secret -- "I'd screw them up and throw them in the bin when I came out of the shop," she says.
Today, dressed in a fluffy maroon jumper with painted nails to match, Maloney is almost unrecognizable from the boxing promoter who tried to end his life that December 25.
After undergoing gender reassignment in March last year, "Frank" is now "Kellie." And while the voice remains unchanged, the words coming out are very different.
"For the first time in my life I feel complete and whole," says the 62-year-old in between sips of tea at her kitchen table in suburban Bromley, just south of London.
"I don't see myself as transsexual, or transgender, or trans anything. I see myself as a woman and a human being," she says, adding that her last operation -- "the final piece of my jigsaw, you might say" -- is now behind her."
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