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Jessica Alves
Born	(1983-07-30) 30 July 1983 São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian and British
Other names	Roddy Alves, Jezz
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	London College of Communication
Occupation(s)	TV celebrity, air steward
Known for	Extensive plastic surgeries
Father	Roserval Alves

Jessica Alves (born Rodrigo Alves; 30 July 1983) is a Brazilian-British television personality noted for having undergone dozens of plastic surgeries to alter her appearance.

Early life and education

Alves was born on 30 July 1983 in São Paulo, Brazil to a Brazilian mother and a British father. Her father, Roserval Alves, hailed from a family of Europeans who arrived in Brazil in 1940s. Initially the family was in the farming trade but expanded their business involvement to include supermarkets, shopping centres and real estate. When she was young, her grandfather bought her Barbie dolls and allowed her to dress. From a young age—“since the age of three, four, five, six”—she knew she was a woman, played with dolls, cross dressed, and was in touch with her feminine side. She feels people should not be defined by gender. She was shy, and bullied throughout childhood. As a teen, Alves had a hormone dysfunction, with too much estrogen causing breast tissue to grow; his other features were also picked on by the bullies. Her family has a string of grocery stores in Brazil which has made them wealthy, but as of 2018, Alves did not get any of those monies.

Alves moved to London at age nineteen, where she studied public relations at London College of Communication. Her money comes from an inheritance her maternal grandparents left for her.

Biography

Alves has had several surgeries, including the nose jobs which resulted in the loss the use of that appendage. Soon after that experience she underwent a surgery in Brazil to inject a gel into the arms to make them look more muscular. She lost use of both her arms for a while and the experience compelled her to seek psychotherapy. In 2013 Alves was diagnosed with body dysmorphia — a “mental health condition where a person spends an obsessive amount of time worrying about flaws in their appearance”.

As of 2018, Alves has luxury homes in London Marbella, Spain, and was a regular presenter on television. She has a sizable monthly pension from her grandparents, and is heir to properties in Puerto Banús in Spain that she rents out to tourists. Her net worth in 2018 was estimated at over £30 million. In 2018 Alves was jetting between London and Brazil for work and found that being recognized everywhere—and being asked for selfies—had its downside, and felt a new freedom when cross dressing as Jessica. The idea of transitioning gender identity, outwardly, to permanently being female was put on hold, in part because of objections from her father.

As of January 2018, Alves has spent just over £500,000 (equivalent to $642,970 in 2023) undergoing 103 cosmetic procedures, including injections, 51 of which were plastic surgeries. Alves has undergone liposuction, had gel filler injected into shoulders, biceps, and triceps, applies minoxidil topically, has had hair implants and a number of facelifts, wears tinted contact lenses, and has had twelve rhinoplasties. Her first plastic surgery was at the age of 17 to remove gynecomastia. Her first nose job was when she was nineteen, As of March 2020 she has spent an estimated £650,000 on sixty operations to emulate the iconic Barbie doll. Alves recounted that pre-transition she tried to compensate for her lack of masculine tendencies by trying to look more so through the surgeries, "I'd always felt feminine and when I struggled to be manly with my personality, I decided to make my appearance as masculine as possible instead, ... But no matter how much I looked like Ken nothing eased the pain of being Barbie inside."

In August 2018, Alves appeared on the UK television show Celebrity Big Brother as a celebrity housemate. After using the racial slur "nigger" in a conversation over the type of sexual partner she preferred, Alves was given a "final warning" by producers that if she repeated the language she would be evicted from the house. The incident garnered over 1,000 complaints to regulator OfCom. After another incident, Alves was expelled from the show in the early hours of the morning on the tenth day.

In March 2019, Alves released a song with Italian plastic surgeon Giacomo Urtis called "Plastic World".

In January 2020, Alves came out as transgender after three months of living in privacy. She shared that she had always been depressed and felt that as risky as more surgeries were, she needed to transition or she would die. During the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic she was separated from her family but reunited with them in June. In July 2020, Alves announced that she had changed her name to Jessica. In August her father died. He was always worried about Jessica dying from a surgery, but they remained close throughout her life.

External links

• Jessica Alves at IMDb
• Jessica Alves on Instagram