
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 12, 1991                   TAG: 9104121044
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: FLINT, MICH.                                LENGTH: Short

OPRAH LOOK-ALIKE IS A MAN, FOR NOW

A man who won the Ladies' Home Journal Oprah Winfrey look-alike contest said he did not misrepresent himself as a woman. He is undergoing a sex change.

"I'm not lying to the public," Jecquin Stitt told television station WJRT on Thursday. "You know, because I am going through some changes."

Neither Stitt nor the station disclosed how far along Stitt was in getting a sex change, which can involve a lengthy combination of surgical, hormonal and psychological treatment.

The city water department worker sent a photograph and an essay to the Journal, which was running a nationwide contest to locate look-alikes for the talk-show hostess Winfrey, pop singer Madonna and four other celebrities. He learned several days ago that he was one of the winners.

The winners are to travel April 22 to the Journal's New York offices for a photo session, then go to Chicago for the May 16 taping of an "Oprah" program.

- Associated Press

by CNB