Chaz started taking male hormones in March and recently had his breasts removed. The entire process will take “4 to 5 years.”

“It lowered my voice. Fat redistributes, muscle growth, hair growth, sex drive increases. It doesn’t change anything mentally and emotionally. [I'm] still not anywhere near what I will look like but really for the first time I am feeling much more comfortable with how I look physically.” He adds that he has begun shaving his face “once a week now.”

He adds: “I believe gender is something between your ears, not your legs. I feel like I’m living in my body for the first time.”

After announcing her shocking decision to transition from female to male just last month, Chastity/Chaz Bono has already received a number of lucrative offers to document her sex change with a new television reality series, The National Enquirer has learned.

“Chaz has been fielding offers from reality show producers who want to show her sex change on camera,” says a family friend.

Chaz, the 40-year-old daughter of 60s-70s music duo Sonny & Cher, is no stranger to the world of reality television, having appeared on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club in 2005. However this is one soiree with unscripted TV that Chaz’ legendary mom can’t get behind.

While Cher is supportive of her daughter’s decision to undergo gender reassignment surgery, she does not want her family get dragged into the wacky world of reality TV, a pal tells The Enquirer.

“Cher was shocked that Chaz even considered documenting her life — let alone her sex change on camera. Cher treasures her privacy.”

Despite her mom’s displeasure, Chaz hasn’t ruled out chronicling her journey from girl to boy, possibly for a future documentary.

“As a gay activist, Chaz is adamant about recording her sexual identity struggles and her transition from female to male,” says a friend, who adds, “Her concern is that it be done tastefully. If she does it at all, she wants a documentary style format, and for it to be educational.”

Legendary entertainer Cher has inked a deal to star alongside Christina Aguilera in the “Genie In A Bottle” star’s motion picture debut, Screen Gems’ musical Burlesque.

Christina will play a talented young singer from a small town who finds success and love while performing at a burlesque club in Los Angeles. Cher will play Tess, a former dancer who runs the club, Variety has learned.

“She brings a soulfulness and gravitas to this character that will ground the story,” he tells the trade paper. “The only person who was more excited than I am is Christina,” Screen Gems President Clint Culpepper told the trade mag late Monday.

Burlesque will be the first movie appearance for Cher since her role in Tea with Mussolini in 1999.

Legendary entertainer Cher is speaking out for the first time about losing her daughter Chastity Bono — and gaining a son, Chaz.

Last week, Bono’s publicist confirmed that the daughter of Sonny & Cher has decided to undergo gender transition and become a man. At 40, Chastitiy is taking testosterone to alter body and voice and plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

“Chaz is embarking on a difficult journey, but one that I will support. I respect the courage it takes to go through this transition in the glare of public scrutiny, and although I may not understand, I will strive to be understanding. The one thing that will never change is my abiding love for my child,” the 63-year-old star — a devoted gay rights activist — said in a statement to PEOPLE Magazine on Wednesday.

As a teenager, Chastitiy Bono came out as a lesbian to a devastated Cher.

“As a kid, I thought I was a little boy,” Bono told gay interest magazine The Advocate in 1995.

Bono has been in a long-term relationship with 33-year-old graduate student Jennifer Elia since 2005.

Chastity Bono, the daughter of Sonny and Cher, is changing her sex with the help of gender reassignment surgery, The NY Daily News has learned.

Chastity, 40, began the process of transitioning from female to male earlier this year, according to her rep.

“Yes, it’s true — Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity,” publicist Howard Bragman said in a press statement released on Thursday.

“He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his loved ones. It is Chaz’s hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his ‘coming out’ did nearly 20 years ago,” Bragman continued.

“We ask that the media respect Chaz’s privacy during this long process as he will not be doing any interviews at this time,” the statement concluded.

Chastity was featured on VH1 Celebrity Fit Club in 2003.

Cher is in talks to join Christina Aguilera in the movie musical Burlesque, a rep for Screen Gems has revealed to Entertainment Weekly.

The Oscar-winning star of Moonstruck, 63, would play the owner of a Los Angeles burlesque club in the Steve Antin-directed film. Christina will make her on-screen debut as a small-town girl who works at the cabaret.

The project would mark Cher’s return to the big screen after a six year absence from the silver screen.

Cher’s extravagant show on the Las Vegas Strip was the hot topic of conversation when the diva herself appeared as a special guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday.


Watch a pair of audience members duke it out for tickets to Cher’s show in a game of Aw Snap!

The diva is recuperating from asthma-related bronchitis, according to the Sin City casino, where she backed out of shows on Saturday and Sunday.

According to Cher’s longtime rep, Liz Rosenberg, the 62-year-old entertainer is suffering from a simple case of “Vegas throat,” a condition caused by the dry desert air at the gambling resort.

The 62-year-old singer/actress is reportedly director Christopher Nolan’s first choice for the role in the upcoming sequel to the record-breaking Batman: The Dark Knight

Cher will portray Catwoman “like a vamp in her twilight years,” a studio executive revealed to the Daily Telegraph on Sunday. “The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry’s purring creations.”

The cast will also include award-winning actors Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin.

Cher isn’t getting married. The sixty-two year-old two-time divorcee was forced to rebuff rumors on Wednesday that she is ready to walk down the aisle again after the National Enquirer claimed the singing legend was preparing to wed thirty-eight year-old biker and mountain-climber Tim Medvetz.

The Enquirer’s spies even suggested Cher was requiring that her 6′5 enthusiast fiance sign a $600 million prenup.

Celebrity mouthpiece Liz Rosenberg says Cher has no interest in jumping the broom for the third time-nor is she engaged to Tim:

“She’s not even in Vegas right now. She won’t be back in Vegas until August. Cher promised me if she ever got married again, I could be the flower girl,” the publicist joked.

Cher was first married to late singer/politician Sonny Bono in 1964. She later married Gregg Allman, of music’s The Allman Brothers.