And get paid for it. Amanda Lepore makes her living simply being Amanda Lepore. The year-old born on November 21, , she celebrates on Dec. Her cartoonish Alberto Vargas appearance, the result of numerous plastic surgeries, has made Ms.

Lepore a transsexual poster girl, modeling in campaigns for Armani Jeans alongside actor Ryan Phillippe and M. Cosmetics and posing for photographers Steven Klein, Terry Richardson and David LaChapelle who discovered Ms. Lepore in the 90s and made her his muse. Penned with a ghostwriter, Thomas Flannery Jr.

Towers of Christian Louboutin shoe boxes size 38 flank a wall. Leopard pillows are strewn everywhere. A large gilded mirror hangs above her bed.

Her mother, a German-American housewife suffered from schizophrenia and was routinely hospitalized. Her father, an Italian-American chemical engineer abandoned the family when Ms.

My mother is always on my mind. Lepore paused and straightened a bejeweled half-glove. I live in the moment. Born Armand Lepore, at 10 she saw a program on television about gender reassignment surgery and announced to her parents that she wanted a sex change.

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At 15, she befriended Bambi, a transsexual stripper, who traded her hormones in exchange for sparkly G-strings and bikini tops that Lepore designed at home. With her disapproving father out of the picture and macho brother never home, she started dressing as a girl. Her mother bought her Revlon lipstick and a padded bra.

She dropped the r from Armand, added an a , and became Amanda. Lepore met a man named Michael, who was a decade older, but still lived with his parents. Lepore had her gender reassignment surgery in Yonkers, New York.

She married Michael a year later. She saw her father and brother for the last time at the funeral. She decided to run away from her husband, who had become controlling and jealous, and move to New York to become a star. I became really good at it. Lepore is currently recording a second album with the gay rapper Cazwell, who wrote a few of the tracks, including a gangsta rap song. She still goes out clubbing three or four nights a week.

That always stuck with me. I mean I tried everything, but I was never into it. I could never do coke.

My nose would run. I never liked being out of control. At 5ft 2inches, her measurements are They had implants by then. In those ways I was lucky.

And the sex change was really good. They asked permission to touch her body. Amanda totally complied and was giving them beauty lessons. They were in awe, and all the while the men were looking on in envy.

Amanda was so in her element. Having such an over-the-top, instantly recognizable look makes it near-impossible for Ms.

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Her notoriety and extreme beauty also make it hard to date. They either really like the spotlight and having a trophy girlfriend or they will not really be crazy for it. I work at night. Older guys fall asleep. They plan to meet for a first date in Rome. Generally, even more so. Lepore is the exact opposite of Caitlyn Jenner. It was weird for me.

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