Wendy Guevara

Wendy Guevara Venegas (born 12 August 1993) is a Mexican trans woman influencer, actress, singer and businesswoman. She rose to fame in 2017, after a viral video along with her friend Paola Suárez. Later, they both created the YouTube channel and art group Las Perdidas, together with Kimberly Irene.

Since 2021, Guevara also has a solo career. She has released multiple promotional singles and has collaborated musically with other artists. Guevara has worked as TV host, primarily online. In 2023, she participated in La casa de los famosos México, broadcast by TelevisaUnivision; after her victory, she marked history by becoming the first trans woman to win a reality show in Mexico and Latin America.

Early life Wendy Guevara Venegas was born in León, Guanajuato, on 12 August 1993. She is one of the four children of Francisco Guevara Jaramillo and Fabiola Venegas Vázquez (or Vázquez Venegas). She lived a difficult childhood, due to her father's alcoholism problems, and had to conceal her sexual orientation and gender identity. Her family is in the shoe manufacturing business, and Guevara worked for a long time in the family business. She was harassed at school because of her gender identity and only completed her primary education.

When she was seven years old, she was sexually abused; at the age of eight, a truck ran over her. Growing up, Guevara watched other trans women on television. She has cited Mexican trans actress Alejandra Bogue as one of her main media references.

Guevara began to adopt female attire with the support of her friend Lucero, a trans woman who owned a beauty salon near the Jardín San Juan del Coecillo neighborhood, where Wendy grew up. Lucero allowed Wendy and other young trans women to dress as women in her home. In her early days, Wendy used the name Vianney when cross-dressing. Lucero baptized Guevara as "Wendy" after the character Wendy Nayeli Pérez from the telenovela Amigas y rivales (2001), played by Angélica Vale.

Career 2017–2022: and music career In September 2017, Guevara and Paola Suárez, her friend, went to a hill near León de los Aldama. Her companions had been gone for several hours looking for something to drink. Both decided to record a video where they joked about their situation by pretending they had been abandoned in an unknown location and uttered the phrase, ('We're lost!'). Suárez shared the video via Facebook and weeks later it became viral. The video earned them an award at the 2017 MTV Millennial Awards. In 2019, Guevara and Suárez made their television debut as guests of the telenovela (2019), broadcast by Televisa. In 2022, Las Perdidas collaborated with journalist Adela Micha in the virtual platform , starring in .

In February 2023, Guevara released "TAPU". In June 2023, she was selected to participate in the Big Brother spinoff reality show, , broadcast by TelevisaUnivision: Las Estrellas, Canal 5 and Vix. After 71 days of competition, Guevara won the show and became the first trans woman to win in a Mexican or Latin America reality show, receiving 18.2 million votes.

Vix announced she would host her on TV show.

Discography "Hasta que salga el sol" "Hey perra" "Putssy" (Trixy Star with Wendy Guevara) "Tapu" "Tu malandrito" (Pol Prince feat. Wendy Guevara) "Bad Boy" "Mua"

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Herself Winner Sex worker 2 episodes; together with Las Perdidas Herself 13 episodes 2024 Herself Special houseguest 2025 Herself Host Awards and nominations