13 Reasons Why actress Tommy Dorfman is divorcing her husband, after coming out as a transgender woman last year.
Tommy Dorfman and Peter Zurkuhlen have called it quits after five years married.
Zurkuhlen, 33, filed for divorce from the 13 Reasons Why star, 29, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to documents obtained by TMZ.
A rep for Dorfman did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Dorfman, who came out as a transgender woman in July 2021, met Zurkuhlen through mutual friends in 2005. They became engaged in 2015 and tied the knot the following year in Portland, Maine.
The US actress previously revealed she and Zurkuhlen had “redefined” their relationship as friends in an interview with Time last July. She said at the time that her transition impacted their marriage.
“Personally, it’s wild to be 29 and going through puberty again. Some days I feel like I’m 14. As a result of that shift, the types of romantic partnerships I seek out are different,” Dorfman said.
“I was in a nine-year relationship in which I was thought of as a more male-bodied person, with a gay man. I love him so much, but we’ve been learning that as a trans woman, what I’m interested in is not necessarily reflected in a gay man.”
Dorfman noted that she and Zurkuhlen “had incredible conversations” about how to “redefine” their relationship as friends.
“Transitioning has been liberating and clarifying,” she said.
Zurkuhlen publicly supported his partner on Instagram at the time, re-sharing an image from the Time magazine photo shoot.
“So much love. You are gorgeous and you are fully you,” he captioned it.
Dorfman also spoke out about how her life has changed since coming out as transgender in an interview with InStyle back in August.
“I just switched my hormones, and I’ve never felt better in my life,” she said. “I spent 28 years of my life suicidal and depressed and recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction. I don’t think I’ve ever been genuinely happy until this past year.”
She added: “I look at the Internet chronicle of photos of me since I started working, and I can see how f***ing unhappy I was in every photo. It’s wild.”
This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission
Originally published as Tommy Dorfman and Peter Zurkuhlen divorce after five years
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