Her name is Jessica Alves (it was Rodrigo), but to the public she is the "Human Ken". A life under the knife because of the different interventions he underwent to look like Ken, Barbie's boyfriend.
Often a guest of Mediaset television broadcasts (Barbara D'Urso above all), Rodrigo Alves has decided to change sex. Now it's Jessica, and she wants to go further, undergo a uterus transplant in order to get pregnant.
"I know it is a very special intervention, but I dream of living the experience of motherhood", he revealed in an interview with the weekly Nuovo.
In Brazil he is waiting for the go-ahead for the complicated operation: "It will be the eightieth surgery of my life, it lasts five hours and costs 50 thousand euros". Jessica Alves will be implanted with the uterus of a dead donor.
"I found the strength to change sex and now I also want to have my family, a husband and a child," she reveals.
He already has clear ideas about the name: "I hope it is female, so I will call her Barbara, in honor of D'Urso".
(Unioneonline / L)
