Photo: Emily Hampshire/Instagram
Teddy Geigerhas found love withSchitt’s Creekstar Emily Hampshire!
The pairconfirmed the news via Instagramon Aug. 30 when Hampshire posted a sweet photo of them together. “Just me & my girlfriend. 🎶❤️👯♀️🍓” Hampshire, 37, captioned the shot.
Just a few days later, Geiger raved about Hampshire on Instagram.
“I love her so much and miss her so much,” the 29-year-old musician wrote alongside a close-up shot of Hampshire in her black-rim glasses. “And I need to kiss her and I want to go dancing because she is so cute when she dances and she is my dream and and and goodnight 😘”
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Two weeks ago, Hampshire shared another post where the pair got silly in a photo booth, captioning the images “Photo booth-a#tuscany”
On Aug. 30, Geiger snapped another image and lovingly captioned it: “I am so happy this woman is alive… with the sound of music. She is a song I will sing for a thousand years. She fills my heart with the sound of music. My heart wants to sing every song it hears.”
The lyrical caption makes reference to the 1965 filmThe Sound of Music.
This is Geiger’s first public relationship sincetransitioning. The musician — who has written hits forShawn MendesandOne Direction— was first discovered on VH1’s 2004 reality competitionIn Search of the Partridge Family.
Geiger later went on to tour withHilary Duffand release the 2006 albumUnderage Thinking, which included the Top 40 single “For You I Will (Confidence).”
In Oct. 2017, the singercame out as transgender, revealing she had begun transitioning earlier that fall. After a fan inquired about why Geiger looked different recently, the singer-songwriter responded, “Okay… because u asked nicely… I am transitioning.”
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Since the announcement, Geiger hasopened up about the struggle to embrace her identity from an early age. In July, she told theNew York Times,“I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester, there were limited resources. I’d never met a trans person before.”
“A lot of u guys are asking. She/her pronouns are perfect,” she wrote. “And… yes I am still Teddy.”
source: people.com
