Anyone looking for celebrity biographies to delve into scandalous topics will certainly be disappointed in this book, but not much. Those who reject volumes of scientific information believing that reading them is always tedious may miss this book. But you will regret it. In 'Much Pleasure: Roberta Close', Lúcia Rito managed to bring together exact doses of scandal and science to reconstruct the amazing trajectory of a human being who aroused the curiosity of an entire country.
In the best tradition of biographies of Hollywood stars or members of the British royal family. Lúcia tells everything, everything, about the life of the transgender woman who leaves Brazil breathless every time she makes it to the cover of a magazine, appears on television, is featured in a social column or appears at a carnival party.
Born, at least on record, Luiz Roberto Gambine Moreira, the youngest of three boys, Roberta never saw herself as a boy. In the book, she states that she was born the genitals deformation. During her teenage years, she starts taking hormones to develop her breasts. Her father never accepts Luiz Roberto's feminity and even shaves her hair. The situation worsens and Robertinho moves into her grandmother's house.
She starts working as a model. Her beauty is unquestionable, she works for Jean-Paul Gaultier, alongside Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Linda Evangelista, acts in films, participates in all the major TV shows, and her photos are on all the covers of magazines (even Playboy, before and after the surgery), being a muse for artists and musicians and desired by many people. Fame surpassed Brazil and reached Europe and the United States when international newspapers report that the most beautiful model in the world was a man.
Roberta underwent gender reassignment surgery when she was 25 years old. Seven years after the publication of the book, in 2005, Roberta is recognized as a woman by the Brazilian state, and her new name - Luiza Gambine Moreira appears in all her legal documents.
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