I’m known as Ken but inside I’ve always felt like Barbie
‘HUMAN DOLL’ WHO’S HAD MORE THAN 70
HE was known as the human Ken doll after spending over £500,000 to change his looks.
But today Rodrigo Alves bravely comes out as a transgender woman.
Posing in a dress and heels, the reality TV star said: “It feels amazing to finally tell the world I’m a girl.
“I’m known as Ken but inside I’ve always felt like Barbie.”
Hormone injections have given her feminine hips and she now wears a D-cup bra. Blonde hair extensions and fake eyelashes complete the glam look. Rodrigo, who now likes to be called Roddy with the pronouns “she” and “her” – said: “I finally feel like the real me. Glamorous, beautiful and feminine.
“For years I tried to live my life as a man. I had a fake six pack put in, I had fake muscles in my arms but I was lying to myself.
“I’m a woman and have always had a feminine brain. Now my body matches my mind.”
Next year Roddy, 36, will complete her transition with gender realignment surgery.
She said: “I will have a penile inversion and my testicles will be removed. That will be the final step.
“Before that I’m having silicone breast implants. I’ll be able to wear dresses that show my cleavage and look sexy. I’m very excited.
Happy
“After that, I’m having face feminisation surgery. It will be an incision at the top of my scalp, and through that the doctor will reshape my forehead, give me an eye lift, lip lift and middle face lift. I’m having my Adam’s apple removed, my jawline shaved and my chin modified.”
Roddy, who is from Brazil but lives in London, admitted it took a lot of courage finally to admit she was trangender.
“Behind closed doors, I’ve been living as a woman for the last three months,” she said. “I love it and everything that comes with it – going to nice hair salons and getting my nails, eyebrows and eyelashes done. Buying dresses and high heels and wearing sexy lingerie.
“But I have been trolled and called a freak and a weirdo, so of course I am nervous about how people will react.
“A few years ago I could never have done this but it feels easier now.
“People are more aware of what being transgender means. I just hope people can accept me as a woman and don’t judge or ridicule me.”
Roddy’s quest for acceptance as a woman began when she was a little boy dressing in her mum’s clothes in Brazil.
She even had breasts as a child because her body produced more oestrogen than the average male.
“Growing up, I was very feminine and used to play with dolls and wear my mum’s dresses and heels,” she said. “I had an instinct towards toys and clothes designed for females.
“I was bullied at school because I was very feminine.
Boys would play football and girls volleyball. I’d always be with the girls.
“I was physically abused – I had my face pushed into the urinal and was thrown down the stairs.
“At the age of 13 two boys at school sexually abused me. I was very feminine and weak. I couldn’t defend myself. It was very traumatic.”
Roddy believes the bullying spurred her on to make a success of her life.
She moved to the UK at the age of 20 and studied public relations at university. A stint as an air steward followed, then a lucrative career as a TV personality here and in Europe.
She appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2018. Her obsession with plastic surgery began with a breast reduction aged 17 and a nose job at 19.
Since then she has changed her looks beyond recognition with more than 70 operations and has been dubbed the human Ken doll and the “face of plastic surgery”.
Last year docs removed her fake six-pack and inserted it into her bum for a bum lift – in an op shown on a German TV documentary.
She said: “I have tried my best to behave like a man but deep inside I was never happy.
“I would see a beautiful woman and feel jealous because I wanted to be like them.
“I think like a woman, I act like a woman because I have always been one deep inside.” Roddy admits it was emotional telling her mum and sister she was transitioning but they were supportive.
She said: “My mum was more worried that I will need to have more surgery than that I was transitioning.
“My sister said she hopes I will look like her now I’m a woman.”
It was during a photoshoot in New York a year ago that Roddy finally realised she wanted to transition.
She was asked to dress in women’s clothes for the shoot – and took them home afterwards.
“I began wearing the lingerie at home and it made me feel beautiful,” said Roddy.
“It was an awakening. It finally all became clear to me.
“I came back to the UK and made an appointment with my