But at the moment, on set for her PEOPLE Beautiful Issue shoot, Josie Totah is talking about... eyebrows! "I'm so glad the trend of thin eyebrows is over," she tells PEOPLE. "I'm an Arab woman.

This year, we are honoring Totah as a Groundbreaker, one of our 18 girls under the age of 18 ... After all, her friends and family had long known that Josie was transgender.

Josie Totah started her career as a child star on ... staying in school because I had already been out of school for so long — and it was hard for me to do because it was such an amazing ...