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After transitioning in March 2014, British boxing promoter Frank Maloney is now Kellie. Getty Images/File
"In all my dreams as a child, I was always a girl -- never a boy," says the 62-year-old. The eldest of three boys growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Peckham, south London, Maloney says she realized she was different from her brothers from the age of three.
Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Maloney (standing third from left) as an 11-year-old goalkeeper for St. James Football Club. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Maloney (pictured in the 1960s) was encouraged to take up boxing by her father and had dreams of turning pro. But, standing a little over five feet tall, she would instead turn her attention to the managerial side of the sport. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
In another life, Frank Maloney was one of the Britain's most successful boxing promoters, managing world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and guiding other fighters to various titles. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Lewis shows off his WBC belt alongside manager Maloney in 1992. Gray Mortimore/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images
Frank and Tracey Maloney, with Lewis, on their wedding day.
They were married over 15 years and had two children, Sophie and Libby. Maloney also has a daughter Emma with first wife Jackie. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
They were married over 15 years and had two children, Sophie and Libby. Maloney also has a daughter Emma with first wife Jackie. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Maloney and boxer David Price celebrate winning against Audley Harrison after their British and Commonwealth heavyweight championships bout in 2012. Scott Heavey/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images
Kellie says her three daughters have been supportive of her transition. Here, Maloney -- then Frank -- is pictured with Sophie and Libby in Portugal. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Maloney has spent over $150,000 on operations to feminize her appearance. After having facial surgery in Belgium, she was left in intensive care due to excessive swelling. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
Kellie with her daughters Emma, Sophie, and Libby. Courtesy Kellie Maloney/Blink Publishing
After retiring in 2013, Maloney has now returned to boxing and manages two fledgling fighters for the first time as a woman. Karina Hessland/Bongarts/Bongarts/Getty Images
Here, Maloney gives a speech at a United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) conference in February 2015. Maloney has since left the right-wing Eurosceptic party, saying: "I am no longer a member, due to their beliefs."
As a UKIP candidate for the London mayoral election in 2004, Maloney (then Frank) attracted criticism after refusing to campaign in the borough of Camden because there were "too many gays."
Today, Maloney "wholeheartedly apologizes" for the comments.
"I totally regret making them and I'll have to live with them forever," she told CNN. "But at the time I was living a life with blinkers on. I used to live in a world where my mouth opened before my brain did. If I could go back in time and take those words back, I would." BEN STANSALL/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
As a UKIP candidate for the London mayoral election in 2004, Maloney (then Frank) attracted criticism after refusing to campaign in the borough of Camden because there were "too many gays."
Today, Maloney "wholeheartedly apologizes" for the comments.
"I totally regret making them and I'll have to live with them forever," she told CNN. "But at the time I was living a life with blinkers on. I used to live in a world where my mouth opened before my brain did. If I could go back in time and take those words back, I would." BEN STANSALL/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
Maloney says her managing style has softened since transitioning and she's more likely to speak to the wives and girlfriends of her clients about their emotional state.
Here, she celebrates with Gary Cornish after he beat Zoltan Csala during an IBO intercontinental heavyweight fight in Scotland in May 2015. Mark Runnacles/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images
Here, she celebrates with Gary Cornish after he beat Zoltan Csala during an IBO intercontinental heavyweight fight in Scotland in May 2015. Mark Runnacles/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images
"I don't mind people accidentally calling me Frank, because there's no point. I actually feel it's the militants in the transgender community that are stopping us from progressing," says Maloney.
"I've heard stories of people being misgendered and they go mad about it. But you've got to understand that we lived a different life until we transitioned." James Betts
"I've heard stories of people being misgendered and they go mad about it. But you've got to understand that we lived a different life until we transitioned." James Betts
"Caitlyn Jenner has brought public awareness to transitioning -- much similar to the way I've done in this country," says Maloney of the American reality TV star and retired Olympic decathlon champion.
"But I don't think you could compare her transition to others ... how many people have a makeup artist working for them full-time or a wardrobe full of designer clothes?
"She comes from reality TV, it's a completely different world, and very far from other people's reality."
Here, Jenner poses at the 2015 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards, where she was named "Transgender Champion."
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"But I don't think you could compare her transition to others ... how many people have a makeup artist working for them full-time or a wardrobe full of designer clothes?
"She comes from reality TV, it's a completely different world, and very far from other people's reality."
Here, Jenner poses at the 2015 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards, where she was named "Transgender Champion."
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