Woman’s cross-dressing fiancé is mistaken for female friend

Linda Bailey and Phil Walsh (Image: Linda Bailey/ SWNS)A woman and her cross-dressing fiancé are often approached by men on nights out who mistake them for two female friends.Linda Bailey, 43, first encountered Phil Walsh, 37, in his cross-dress persona on TikTok in December 2021. The pair started supporting each other’s videos, before talking in private messages.By February 2022, they realised they had romantic feelings for each other and decided to meet up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in March 2022. After hitting it off, the couple started dating and Phil proposed in June 2022.Now the lovebirds live together in Coventry, West Midlands, and love to dress up and do their make-up together.Linda, who works in clinical diagnostics, said: ‘I’ve never known Phil any other way as when I first saw him it was on his TikTok in cross-dress. I don’t see it as anything I need to support him on because it’s just him. Linda Bailey and Phil Walsh (Image: Linda Bailey/ SWNS )’People can assume he is homosexual or trans because he likes to cross-dress. He gets asked out a lot by men because he looks amazing as a woman.’We’ve had men come up to us to sit with us as they think we’re both women. He’s better at doing make-up than me too.’We’re both confident in who we are and that’s what matters.’Phil, a field technician, said: “For the last 10 years I would come home from work and put a skirt on.”I’ve always found feminine clothes more comfortable. I joined TikTok about a year a go and decided to go for a make-over and had a wig put on and my make-up done.”It was amazing and a massive weight off my shoulders. I never had to hide who I was from Linda.”She liked both sides of me from the beginning. We have dress-up nights or come home and put our matching pyjamas on. She loves me for me.”READ MORE: Meghan podcast hits out at ‘b*tch* and ‘difficult’ labels  Linda Bailey and Phil Walsh (Image: Linda Bailey/ SWNS ) Linda Bailey and Phil Walsh (Image: Linda Bailey/ SWNS)Linda met Phil after he popped up on her ‘for you’ page on TikTok and the pair started engaging on each other’s videos.She said: ‘I saw his social media account which was under his former cross-dressing personality name.’I also have a background of elaborate dressing and used to be a cyber goth so I’d wear six-inch platforms and corsets. We started chatting privately and realised it was more than a friendship.’The pair decided to meet up in Sheffield to go ice-skating for their first date in March 2022.Phil, who was living and working in Oldham, Greater Manchester, started staying at Linda’s and commuting from there.In June 2022, Phil asked Linda to marry him and the pair officially moved in together in October 2022, after Phil found a new job in Coventry, West Midlands.He said: ‘We walked past a jewellers and Phil just asked me which ring I’d choose and then asked me to marry him. It was very sweet.’Linda has always been supportive of Phil’s cross-dressing a now the pair have a shared TikTok page where they positive videos all dressed up together.She said: ‘He’s just a man who cross-dresses. Any negativity doesn’t bother us.DON’T MISS: Air raid warnings in Ukraine as Russian missiles rain down  Phil and Linda (Image: Linda Bailey/ SWNS )’We have no room left for clothes as we both have so much stuff. We have a massive wardrobe and rail.’We go from looking ordinary to looking insane but we love it.’The couple share wigs and make-up and Phil loves to cross-dress whenever he has time.Phil said: “It took me a while to work out where I fitted and know where my place was. But a whole new world has been opened up for me now.”I’m not hurting anyone by cross-dressing- it’s just clothes and make-up. When I’m dressed up I feel happy and I’ve realised it’s part of me and just something I do.”I want others to know they are not alone and to just be themselves.”