Jazz Jenningsstarted researching how to make mermaid tails when she was seven years old.

It didn’t take her long to order a sewing machine and to sew up her very own tail.

She wore it every time she went into the water.

Jazz Jennings

“It was just a magical experience,” the TLC’sI Am Jazzstar says.

It’s not just that mermaids are mythical, magical, and magnificent.

As it would turn out, mermaids would play more than just a symbolic part in Jazz’s transition.

Jazz Jennings and her homemade mermaid tail