Alert – David Bailey’s son Sascha announces he’s set to become a father after revealing he nearly transitioned to be a woman before finding love with Tommy Robinson’s ex assistant

David Bailey’s son Sascha has announced he is set to become a father, two years after he almost transitioned to become a woman during the break up of his marriage.

Former model, 29, who is once again identifying as a man, decided against changing his gender after finding love with Tommy Robinson’s ex assistant Lucy Brown, 34.

He told his famous photographer father, 87, was ‘happy [about the pregnancy] but in true Bailey style – very understated’. 

Sascha, who would have been left infertile if he’d had transitional surgery, said: ‘It’s really something to have been thinking about closing this door for ever two years ago.’

He registered as transgender while living in Japan to ‘escape the trauma’ of his unhappy marriage to Tokyo lawyer Mimi Nishikawa after falling into the ‘transmaxxing’ scene.

Sascha found himself immersed in the unusual sub culture, which is made up of men who believe their life will be easier if they transition into women.

David Bailey’s son Sascha has announced he is set to become a father, two years after he almost transitioned to become a woman during the break up of his marriage

Former model, 29, who is once again identifying as a man, decided against changing his gender after finding love with Tommy Robinson ‘s ex assistant Lucy Brown, 34 (pictured 2023) 

He had a ten-minute interview in a specialist gender clinic in Nagoya where he was immediately prescribed hormone replacement medicine as he believed he was ‘born in the wrong body.’ 

Sascha told the Times that historic sexual abuse as well as a suicide attempt led him to question his identity. ‘

He said: ‘I often found it hard growing up to identify with males and male characters. I used to love Ripley [Played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien] because she was strong and she didn’t represent the person who had hurt me – she looked sufficiently different.

Certain in his mind, Sascha told his then wife Nishikawa, who he claims was supportive with certain conditions. 

He explained: ‘She tried to make me sign a contract where I agreed that I would give her most of my money while I was transitioning and she could be with anyone she wanted, but I had to stick around and pretend not to be trans for a long time.’ 

Sascha says his journey down the trans pathway came when he stumbled across internet forums on ‘transmaxxing’, a sub culture of men who believe their life will be easier if they transition into women. 

He recalled: ‘It’s a form of problem solving. When you think about [transmaxxers] you have to take away all the feelings and the internal stuff because what they’re trying to do is make themselves right for the situation.’ 

After returning to England, Sascha says he was ready to begin the ‘project’ of transitioning and had his HRT medicine ready to go but delays in securing his second month’s prescription from the NHS ultimately gave him time to reconsider. 

He told his famous photographer father, 87, was ‘happy [about the pregnancy] but in true Bailey style – very understated’ (David pictured in 2022)  

Sascha began transitioning in Tokyo but fled Japan after the collapse of his ten-year marriage to Japanese lawyer Mimi Nishikawa, who is two decades his senior (pictured in 2014)

Lucy previously worked for far-right political figure Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson

He said: ‘I wasn’t going to start because the worst thing you can do is to stop and start.’ 

He then says he met Lucy who he also told of his plans, however her response was slightly different. 

He says: ‘She repeated back my reasoning to me and I just started laughing. It all unravelled from that point.’ 

Sascha’s father counts famed beauties Catherine Deneuve and Marie Helvin among his ex-wives, and he has a portfolio of extraordinary fashion and celebrity portraiture. 

Sascha’s mother Catherine — to whom David remains married today — is also a celebrated model.

Together with his older siblings Fenton and Paloma, Sascha grew up in bohemian privilege between London and the Bailey country estate in Devon. The family are close.

‘Growing up with my parents was fantastic — they were both inspirational people,’ he says, recalling a household which was no stranger to A-listers. 

‘I remember Ronnie Wood told me to tie people’s shoelaces together at some event, and the shoe designer Manolo Blahnik kicking me, which was well deserved, as I had pulled someone to the floor as a result,’ he smiles.

Dyslexic, Sascha was educated privately at a specialist London school, leaving at 16. Within a year, having inherited his mother’s fine bone structure and brunette colouring, he’d been signed by renowned model agency Storm.

By then he was already living with an older girlfriend. ‘I was going through a rebellious phase, and just wanted to get out there and do my own thing,’ he says.

Sascha is the son of legendary photographer and his model fourth wife Catherine (pictured in 1999 at the Barbican Art Gallery) 

Nurtured by his family and the love of a new partner, 32-year-old photographer Lucy Brown, he has been pulled back from the brink of a life-changing decision (pictured with Lucy in 2023) 

Then, aged 19, having returned from several months of modelling in Japan, he met lawyer Mimi Nishikawa through a mutual friend. She was 20 years his senior, but this was no bar to an instant attraction.

‘She was magnetic and charming, and we just bonded,’ he says. ‘I think we were both a bit lonely, too, and I guess we found each other.’

Of the age gap, he says: ‘It did raise a few eyebrows, but honestly that part of it was never an issue for me, and still isn’t.’

In any case, the relationship unfolded with astonishing speed: within three months the couple married at Camden register office with just two witnesses — Sascha’s best friend and Mimi’s roommate — despite the misgivings of friends and family.

‘Loads of people told me it was a bad idea, but when you are in that sort of zone, you have blinkers on,’ he says. 

‘I know people were worried, although my dad laughed and said: ‘Do whatever you want.’ He was married at around the same age, so what could he say?’