Name Miriam Rivera No. of adult films 5 (per IAFD) Ethnicity Hispanic/Mexican Role Television Actor | Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Education Hollywood High School Weight 121 lb (55 kg) | |
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Born ca. 1981 (age 38) Hermosillo, Mexico Other names Victoria, Miriam Rivera, Miriam Xtravaganza, Miriam, Miriam D'Abo TV shows Big Brother Australia, Big Brother - Up Late Died 5 February 2019 (aged 38), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Similar Alejandra Bogue, Francis García, Nadia Almada | ||
Miriam Rivera (born c. 1981) was a Mexican transgender woman who appeared on the reality television shows There's Something About Miriam and Big Brother Australia 2004.
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Miriam 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. 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.
She stated she does not plan to have sex reassignment surgery, citing concerns about complications or loss of sensation. "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."
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.