Stephanie Ann Lloyd was born Keith Michael Hull in 1946. He married and fathered three children, but after years of marriage, his growing conviction that he should have been born a woman drove him to attempted suicide. He then decided to become Stephanie. It cost him his wife, his children, his friends and his job as a company executive. Abandoned and unemployable, Stephanie spent a long period as a prostitute before earning enough to set herself up in business. Now remarried, she is a stepmother and runs a successful group of companies catering for transvestites and transsexuals. Stephanie's story is a tribute to her courage and determination, as well as an insight into the phenomenon of living as both a man and a woman. Stephanie Ann Lloyd is married to her business partner David Booth. They own Mapleleaf Holdings, which inludes three shops called Transformation, a gender clinic, a mail order company and an introduction agency. She has appeared many times on television and in newspapers.