X Factor hopeful Lucy Spraggan longed to be a boy growing up and made people call her Max when she was just six years old, her mum has revealed.
X Factor's Lucy Spraggan sent her first Valentine's Day card to a girl when she was just seven (Picture: ITV)
The talented singer/songwriter insisted her primary school friends call her by her chosen name before she lopped off her hair and raided her brother's wardrobe.
Anstey Spraggan, 47, said Lucy's boyish looks were so so convincing, the other school children at Wincheap Primary in Canterbury, Kent, refused to believe she was actually a girl.
So much so that one day some disbelieving boys took her into the toilets and pulled down her shorts.
'She had boxers underneath - that proved she was a boy!' Anstey recalled.
Lucy's mum goes on to remember how her musical daughter sent her first Valentine's Day card to a girl at the tender age of seven.
Lucy Spraggan came out to her mum when she was 14 (Picture: ITV)
'I rang the girl's mother to check she wouldn't mind her seven-year-old daughter receiving a declaration of undying love from another girl,' Anstey said.
'The mother was indignant and said, "I can't believe you've asked me that. How could you think I would be offended? Gosh, what do you take me for?" After that, I really didn't worry much again,' she added.
Lucy, now, 21, eventually told her mother she was gay when she was 14.
'When I told my late mother's sister the news, her reaction was, "Well, it's not like you haven't had 14 years" notice,' Anstey told the Sunday Mirror.
Lucy impressed judges on the first of The X Factor's live shows last night when she performed her own song, Mountains.
'You're best when you're doing you and I wouldn't have it any other way,' he mentor Tulisa Contostavlos told her afterwards.
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