--- description: In an interview with EW, Cox explains about the joys and struggles of her fame, and talks about Caitlyn Jenner's transition. title: See Laverne Cox on the New Entertainment Weekly Cover image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0d3a6b753d23ad2/698854260b72e3080f6e46d8/entertainment-weekly-cover-laverne-cox.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See Laverne Cox on the New _Entertainment Weekly_ Cover  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2015 7:40 PM CUT  EW  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2015 7:40 PM CUT Laverne Cox has been the most public face of the transgender acceptance movement in America, perhaps until [Caitlyn Jenner’s recent transition](http://time.com/3903669/caitlyn-jenner-vanity-fair-twitter-celebrities/ "undefined"). So it’s fitting that _Entertainment Weekly_ dressed Cox up as the Statue of Liberty on its new cover. Cox told _EW_ she’s grateful for her fame and her platform but said, “I just wonder, am I allowed to be a human being?” In her interview with _EW_, she also talked about the media frenzy around Jenner’s transition, about which Cox initially posted on Tumblr: “This is why I’m so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.” [Read more at _Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/10/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly-cover "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3918146/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3918146/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly/"},"headline":"See Laverne Cox on the New Entertainment Weekly Cover","datePublished":"2015-06-11T19:40:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:08:28.684Z","description":"She describes the joys and struggles of her fame","url":"https://time.com/3918146/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly/","keywords":["celebrities","Television","laverne cox"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0d3a6b753d23ad2/698854260b72e3080f6e46d8/entertainment-weekly-cover-laverne-cox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0d3a6b753d23ad2/698854260b72e3080f6e46d8/entertainment-weekly-cover-laverne-cox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"entertainment weekly cover laverne cox","caption":"entertainment weekly cover laverne cox","creditText":"EW","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3918146/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly/","name":"See Laverne Cox on the New Entertainment Weekly Cover"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Laverne Cox's Advice to a Bullied Child","description":"During Laverne Cox's 'Ain't I A Woman?' lecture in Nourse Theater, San Francisco, a child asked for advice on being bullied. Here's Cox's response.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/4UiEX9CP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-30T20:44:42.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/4UiEX9CP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3918146/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly/","duration":"PT1M16S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3918146/laverne-cox-entertainment-weekly/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```