With the help of medications, hormones and operations, some people who don’t feel comfortable with their gender, or even who feel they’re the opposite to what their body reflects, choose to make the switch to the opposite sex. And that’s just the case of 10 successful women who we wouldn’t even remotely suspect at some point in their lives were men.
Carmen Herrera
He was born Christopher Roman in 1985. She rose to fame when she made a reality show in the United States and since then her success has continued to grow to the point that she has a solid career as a model and actress.
Thalita Zampirolli
She is considered one of the most beautiful transsexuals in Brazil, even rumored to have been Romario’s girlfriend. At the age of 18, the sex-change operation was performed and bust implants were performed.
Valentijn de Hingh
He was born in Holland in 1990. She is a model and Dutch and was widely known because the documentary that bore her name followed her transition from man to woman for nine years.
Amelia Maltepe
He was born in 1991 in Bangladesh as Adesh Maltepe. From a Jewish family, she moved to Toronto in 2009 where she beganher transformation from man to woman. At first her family rejected her, but ended up accepting her.
Fiona Solís
He was born in the Philippines in 1987. She’s a model and an actress. She has appeared in a variety of commercials in her country,as well as winning in several transgender women’s competitions.
Jenna Talackova
He was born in 1988 in Canada. She is a model and television presenter and repressed her country in the Miss Queen International pageant in 2010. At as young as 14 she began her hormone treatment, and at age 19 she did the sex reassignment operation.
Candis Cayne
He was born in 1971 in Hawaii under the name Brendan McDaniel, sister of his twin Dylan.She is an actress and performance artist, and from 1995 to the present, she has appeared in several television series and films.
Inés Rau
He was born in 1990 in France. Of African descent, she is a model and has appeared in several reviews, both fashionable and parastop men. Inés undertook his first operation when he was 16.
Amiyah by Scott
He was born in the United States in 1988 under the name Arthur Scott. She is a model and makeup artist. Amiyah began her transformation process when she was 17. Amiya claims that from a very young girl she realized that she would not live as a man.
And how to set aside Roberta Close
He was born in Brazil in 1964 under the name Luiz Roberto Gambine Moreira. She was once regarded as the most beautiful woman in Brazil. In 2005 Roberta acquired her legal status as a woman after a long and complicated struggle to achieve it.
These people have been very discriminated against by much of society, but thanks to all the awareness campaigns that over the last two decades have intensified around the world, transsexuality in the population is increasingly normalized .
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