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Miriam Rivera (born c. 1981)〔 is a Mexican transsexual woman who appeared on the reality television shows ''There's Something About Miriam'' and ''Big Brother Australia 2004''. Miriam has also worked as an adult model under the name Victoria and as a non-adult model.〔 ==Life and career== Miriam told ''Sun'' reporter Emily Smith she was born in Mexico and wanted to be a girl by age four. She said while her three brothers liked baseball, Miriam preferred Barbie dolls.〔〔("Dinner Date—Miriam," ) Rachael Popow, ''Press Association'', February 25, 2004.〕〔(Miriam's secret. ) Emily Smith, ''The Sun'' (''UK''), February 13, 2004.〕 Miriam says strangers assumed she was a girl:
Miriam said she soon started taking hormones. She told reporters she came out after being suspended from school at age 12, and her family was supportive.〔Swain, Gill (February 21, 2004). Duped by the most beautiful woman in the body of a man.''Daily Express''〕〔Agencia Reforma (August 28, 2004). La transexual mas bella del planeta según revista anglosajona. New Magazine.〕 After not fitting in at a new school, Miriam says she ran away at age 14 and spent six months working at a strip club.〔 She says that when her mother found her, she suggested Miriam live with a relative in America, where she says she attended Hollywood High School from the age of 15. She told reporters that after she was outed there, she moved to New York to live with her uncle and started work in her uncle's real estate agency.〔 In 1999 Miriam posed for a transsexual photography website and performed under the name Victoria in several pornographic videos produced by Androgeny Productions and released starting in 2000.〔(Bob's Tgirls - Transsexual, Shemale, Tgirl, Transgender, tranny, transvestite )〕 She was filmed in Ibiza for ''There's Something About Miriam'' in 2003, but the show's airdate was delayed until 2004, following out-of-court settlement of litigation by the contestants. Miriam enjoyed the attention she got following the show.〔("Miriam's glad to be recognised," ) ''BBC'', February 20, 2004.〕 After the good ratings for ''There's Something About Miriam'', she was cast as a guest visitor on ''Big Brother Australia 2004'', also produced by Endemol. A documentary about her life was commissioned but not aired.〔Mutel, Glen (19 February 2004). Miriam prepares to bare all in doc about 'her' life. ''Broadcast''〕 She has stated she does not plan to have sex reassignment surgery, citing concerns about complications or loss of sensation.〔〔"Miriam pulls it off!," Sally Brook, ''The Sun'' (''UK''), February 24, 2004.〕〔Miriam, ''There's something about Miriam'', (episode 1 ) (aired February 22, 2004).〕 "My mother always says to me, 'Why would you want to be half-and-half? Why don't you want to be a complete woman?' But I just love myself and I'm really enjoying my life."〔("Miriam Opts Out Of Op," ) ''Sky One''.〕 The ''New York Post'' reported that Miriam was seriously injured in spring 2007 when she was thrown out of a third-story window at her home. Miriam later told reporters she fell out of a fourth-story window while trying to escape a burglar. In 2008 she was a special guest Ewa Drzyzga's TVN show ''Rozmowy w toku'' in Poland. In a 2010 interview, Miriam told a British tabloid she was working as an escort in the London area. Miriam is now living and working in Valencia, Spain.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miriam (TV personality)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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