Jessica Alves

Jessica Alves is a Brazilian-British television personality noted for having undergone dozens of plastic surgeries to alter her appearance. Prior to her 2020 transition, she was often referred to as a human Ken doll. She has since been referred to as the human Barbie doll. Although Jessica Alves was assigned male at birth, from “the age of three, four, five, six” she considered herself to be female, played with dolls and cross-dressed.  As a teen, Alves had a hormone difference, with atypical estrogen amounts for her assigned sex, causing breast tissue to grow; her other features were also picked on by the bullies. Jessica Alves has had several episodes of surgery, including nose jobs which resulted in the loss of her sense of smell. Soon after that experience she underwent surgery in Brazil to inject a gel into her arms to make them look more muscular. She lost use of both arms for a while, and the experience led her to seek psychotherapy. In 2013, Alves was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder; a “mental health condition where a person spends an obsessive amount of time worrying about flaws in their appearance”. 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. She underwent both breast augmentation and vaginoplasty. During the early COVID-19 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 2020, her father died. He had long been worried about Jessica dying from a surgery; they remained close nevertheless. In 2024, Jessica expressed that she desires a sapiosexual relationship.