Miriam Rivera

Life and career Rivera was born in 1981 in Mexico. She displayed signs of gender dysphoria since the age of four. She said that while her three brothers liked baseball, she preferred Barbie dolls. Rivera said strangers assumed she was a girl:

Rivera said she soon started taking hormones. She told reporters she came out after being suspended from school at age 12.

Remy Blumenfeld first saw Rivera performing in Speed Angels - a transgender girl band - after which he planned to cast her in a TV show that was later released as There's Something About Miriam.

After the high ratings for the show, she was cast as a guest on Big Brother Australia 2004, also produced by Endemol. A documentary about her life was commissioned but not aired.

She stated she never planned to have sex reassignment surgery, citing concerns about complications or loss of sensation.

Rivera told reporters in 2007 that she fell out of a fourth-story window while trying to escape an intruder. In 2008, she was a special guest on Ewa Drzyzga's TVN show Rozmowy w toku in Poland. In more recent years, Rivera was active in Manhattan's ball culture. She was found dead on 5 February 2019, in her apartment in Mexico. Her death was confirmed by Cuervo in a Facebook post and received news coverage six months later. Big Brother Australia 2004 (2004, Endemol) TV Burp (2004) Rove Live (2004) Good Morning Australia (2004)