Miriam (entertainer)
| Miriam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Unconfirmed ca. 1981 Hermosillo, Mexico |
| Other names | Victoria, Miriam Rivera, Miriam Xtravaganza, Miriam, Miriam D'Abo |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 121 lb (55 kg) |
| No. of adult films | 5 (per IAFD) |
Miriam Rivera (born c. 1981) is a Mexican transgender 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.
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. Miriam says strangers assumed she was a girl:
They used to come to my mother and say, "Oh you have a beautiful daughter," and my mother used to say "That's my son," and I used to get angry. And I have always been attracted to men. When I was 11 I met someone who's gay and start talking to me about hormones, which I got very interested in.
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. 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 City to live with her uncle and started work in her uncle's real estate agency.
In 1999 Miriam posed for a transgender photography website and performed under the name Victoria in several pornographic videos produced by Androgeny Productions and released starting in 2000.
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. 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.
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