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Roddy, formerly Rodrigo Alves, will complete her transition next year with gender realignment surgery.
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Rodrigo Alves' original transformation to a human Ken doll

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“Celebrity Big Brother” star and so-called “human Ken Doll” Rodrigo Alves has come out as transgender, the 36-year-old revealed to the Mirror on Sunday.
“I’m known as Ken but inside I’ve always felt like Barbie,” Alves, who will now go by Roddy and use “she” and “her” pronouns, tells the Mirror while wearing a dress and heels. “I finally feel like the real me. Glamorous, beautiful and feminine.”
Alves has reportedly spent more than $650,000 to achieve her Ken Doll-like look — including having four ribs removed , a “cat-eye” lift and so many nose surgeries that it began sinking and disintegrating — and has now spent even more to achieve a D-cup bust and bigger hips and lips.
She has also deleted all previous posts from her Instagram , which now exclusively features photos of Alves as Barbie, not Ken.
The years of previous plastic surgery were an attempt to live as an enhanced version of her assigned male sex, says the Brazil-born London resident. Now that she identifies with Barbie instead of Ken, she finally feels content.
“For years I tried to live my life as a man. I had a fake six-pack put in, I had fake muscles in my arms, but I was lying to myself,” she says. “I’m a woman and have always had a feminine brain. Now my body matches my mind.”
She’s been enjoying the male attention her new female looks get her, and is excited to finish her transformation with gender reassignment surgery.
“I will have a penile inversion and my testicles will be removed. That will be the final step,” says the former flight attendant. “Before that I’m having silicone breast implants. I’ll be able to wear dresses that show my cleavage and look sexy. I’m very excited.”
Face feminization surgery, involving a forehead reshaping, the removal of Alves’ Adam’s apple and the shaving of her jawline, are also soon to come, she says.
Alves realized she wanted to transition during a photo shoot last year, she says, but she’s long been aware of certain feminine tendencies.
“Growing up, I was very feminine and used to play with dolls and wear my mum’s dresses and heels,” she says, adding that she had breasts as a kid, due to her body producing more estrogen than most males.
After the shoot, though, her transformation into Barbie was rapid.
“Within a month I was diagnosed with gender dysmorphic disorder and given the option to start the appropriate medication to transition,” she says. “Before, people looked at me because I looked very androgynous and weird for a man. Now I hope they are looking because they think I am a beautiful woman.”
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Rodrigo Alves also known worldwide as the famous real-life Ken Doll was recently in London for retail therapy after a rollicking time and a major party bash in Dubai that set him back a 132,000 pounds during which he was so intoxicated that he had to be rescued by lifeguards after taking a dip in the sea in that condition. The Rodrigo Alves 34 from Brazil is a Human Ken doll as you can see from his looks. He spent almost 400,000 pounds transforming himself into the bizarre lifelike looking doll Ken. In London, he was photographed debuting his new hand contact lenses which were hand painted.
Rodrigo was undoubtedly out to attract attention by the way he was dressed. Wearing fur outerwear that outlined his enhanced physique he also showed off his equally weird hair. The real-life Ken doll who I’m sure will actually frighten people is addicted to plastic surgery and you thought that was the prerogative of women? Rodrigo wore a skin-tight waistcoat and unbuttoned white shirt with a matching pair of trousers and olive green loafers which completed his garish look.

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Last month, Ken and his friends received a reality-infused makeover , making the dolls look less like plastic gods and more like the men they’re supposed to emulate. Between three different body types, seven skin colors, and nine hairstyles, Ken is putting down fewer “Come on Barbie, let’s go party” vibes and is instead looking like a guy we might encounter (for better or worse) on Tinder or even at a women’s march.
Ken’s latest evolution might be his most dramatic makeover yet, but it certainly isn’t the most iconic or buzzworthy. Here are some interesting facts about Ken before he got the license to rock a man bun.

The Ken doll was first introduced in 1961 and was named after the son of Ruth and Elliot Handler, the inventors of the Barbie doll (incestuously enough, Barbie was also named after the couple’s daughter :eyes emoji:). According to fansite Keeping Ken , Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Ken, however, was never given a middle name.
Ken Handler ended up marrying a woman named Suzie. The couple lived in Manhattan together with their three kids, where Ken wrote music and plays for fun. He died at the age of 50 in 1994 on the afternoon of his daughter’s wedding.
Meanwhile, Shaving Fun Ken allowed kids to lather up Ken’s face and “shave” his beard, making it disappear with warm water.
Though Ken has had many professions, “Beach Bum” has been reproduced into 12 different versions between 1962 and 2002. Following in a tie for second are “Escort,” and “Tourist,” with 10 boxed dolls each. And at third is “Prince,” with six boxed dolls.
The Ken doll in question was dressed in a purple tank top with a lace-covered polka-dotted skirt. After Toys “R” Us employees at the Florida store confirmed the box’s seal hadn’t been tampered with, Carina Guillot and her 12-year-old daughter Jocelyn took the doll home. “Cross Dressing Ken,” as the media dubbed the doll, went viral (by ’90s standards) and was featured on The Arsenio Hall Show and The Joan Rivers Show , and in Fortune and Newsweek . Collectors offered Guillot up to $4,000 for the doll, but the family didn’t bite. Meanwhile, Mattel had no explanation for the doll’s dressings other than it being a “production error.”
As it turns out, a Toys “R” Us evening employee admitted to redressing Ken and said he carefully resealed the box as to give the appearance the doll arrived that way; it was a common store prank, the employee explained. The employee was fired four days after confessing.
“We always did crazy things like that,” Ron Zero told the Associated Press at the time. “We’d hang dolls in the aisle or put Ken and Barbie in the Barbie house with Barbie spanking Ken.”
The Ken doll, which was released in 1993 as an accessory character to Earring Magic Barbie, came with a purple vest, a pink mesh shirt, a pierced left ear, and two “hoop” accessories—one worn as a pendant, and another attached to Ken’s vest. Mattel’s marketing and communication manager explained the company had surveyed young girls to see if Barbie should get a new boyfriend, or stick with Ken. Girls voiced that they wanted Ken to stay, but thought he should be more cool.
So, as columnist Dan Savage put it for Seattle’s Stranger at the time, Mattel went after what’s “cool” and capitalized off gay culture—or the “homoerotic fashions and imagery” girls watched on MTV, from Madonna’s dancers to raves. The most telling detail? Ken’s “necklace charm holder hoops” looked a lot like cock rings.
“On closer inspection, Ken’s entire Earring Magic outfit turns out to be three-year-old rave wear. A purple faux-leather Gaultier vest, a straight-out-of-International Male purple mesh shirt, black jeans, and shoes. It would seem Mattel’s crack Ken-redesign team spent a weekend in LA or New York dashing from rave to rave, taking notes and Polaroids,” Savage wrote at the time.
While Earring Magic Ken became Mattel’s best-selling Ken doll of all time, much thanks to gay customers purchasing the unintentional gay icon, Mattel discontinued the doll and recalled the rest.
All good things must come to an end. After 43 years, Ken and his beloved Barbie parted ways . If that wasn’t a big enough bummer for Barbie fans, mere months later Barbie began dating an Australian surfer doll named Blaine.
To promote their new Cali Girl doll line, Mattel had Barbie stans vote on Barbie’s next suitor in an online poll. Barbie could get back together with Ken, nature boy Steven, adventurous Steven, Blaine the Aussie, or stay single. After more than a million votes, Blaine won the throne as Barbie’s new beau.
This time, Mattel used Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and YouTube to launch an ad campaign for Ken’s efforts to win Barbie back. Social media accounts for the dolls updated fans on Ken’s grand gestures and Barbie’s indecision with getting back with her longtime boyfriend.
Mattel even launched a web series on Hulu called Genuine Ken , where eight men competed to become “the Great American Boyfriend.”
How serendipitous and not totally planned!
The cake was originally thought to be a transgender Ken or a political cake, but someone who attended the party where it was served said the party host was neither transgender nor attempting to make a political statement.
Today, Freeport Bakery frequently pays homage to their original Ken cake.
It's a pool party! Ken's ready for a swim.
Happy 4th! Check out how Caitlyn did the buttercream work on the skirt. It's amazing.
Quentin Dehar, a 24-year-old France TV personality who aspires to be like Ken, broke up with his Barbie-like girlfriend Anastasia Reskoss in February after she dyed her blonde mane brown. The two allegedly began dating in 2013 over their shared interest in the doll couple and even had matching Ken and Barbie cars .
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Rodrigo Alves, a 33-year-old flight attendant from the U.K., has spent more than $400K to achieve his Ken-like look and has allegedly insured his body for $1 million .
He had his first nose job four days after his 18th birthday and has since spent reported millions on plastic surgery. However, many of his procedures, including custom back implants, shoulder implants, and multiple nose jobs, have been paid for by male fans. Jedlica is a subject in the upcoming, aptly titled documentary The Human Ken Doll .
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Jedlica and Alves are set to star in a plastic surgery reality show called Plastics of Hollywood , where they and 10 other “human dolls” will vie for careers under the world’s first agency for the most body-modified personalities. They’ve also both been featured on E! Entertainment’s Botched .
Fashion shopping site Lyst introduced a series of hip, balding, and dad-bod-esque Ken dolls. Meanwhile, realistic-doll-maker Lammily created a Ken doll equivalent with the average proportions of an IRL male 19-year-old.
A post shared by Lammily (@lammilyofficial) on Apr 5, 2016 at 11:37am PDT
In a true testament to modern times, these updated Ken dolls are now the butt of your new favorite ex-boyfriend ( and ex-girlfriend ) memes. Here’s to hoping that Ken will continue to provide us more awkward cultural moments for the next 50 years.
In 2009, Mattel released the doll for pre-order as part of its exclusive Gold Label Collection, a collectible line for adults. For $69.99 collectors (or, you know, iconic-doll fanatics) could be the proud owners of this chic Floridian Ken doll, complete a stunning lime green-decorated sport coat, pastel pink button down, and white pants and loafers. His accessories also featured sandals, sunglasses, and swim trunks.
“At the end of the day, this collection is targeted toward adults,” a spokesperson told ABC News at the time. “While the name of the doll does refer back to the dog, I think people are going to interpret it as they want to interpret it.”
In the 2010 film Toy Story 3, Ken, who is voiced by Michael Keaton, wasn’t just a fictional doll.
“Grab your binoculars and join Ken for a safari! A swinging bachelor who’s always on the lookout for fun, Ken sports the perfect outfit for his eco-adventure: light blue shorts and a leopard-print shirt with short sleeves sure to keep him cool in the hot sun,” boast the doll’s description.
Despite the iconic blue cheetah-print shirt, matching ascot, and shorts, Ken doesn’t shy away from his Dream House closet in the film, and wears 21 different outfits throughout the film.
“ She should care about more than going to the beach…She should care about poverty and suffering in the world. I wish she would work in a soup kitchen, but then she would never sell,” Handler told writer Denise Gellene for People magazine and the Los Angeles Times in 1989.
He never bought his two daughters Barbie or Ken dolls, but not because he was so morally against them—they just never asked for the dolls, and always preferred stuffed animals.
“Ken is Malibu,” Handler said. “He goes to the beach and surfs. He is all these perfect American things. I was the kind of kid who played piano and went to movies with subtitles. I was a nerd—a real nerd. All the girls thought I was a jerk.”
While Ruth and Elliot Handler might have named Ken after their son, Jack Ryan, Mattel’s chief designer and self-described “third-in-charge” through the ‘50s and ‘60s, is credited with designing the Ken doll other famous Mattel toys. Ryan, an engineer who began his career developing missiles for the Pentagon, developed these Mattel toys and built a “sordid” life filled with parties and orgies out of the hundreds of thousands of dollars he earned as a result.
In his 2009 book Toy Monster , which details Mattel’s hidden greed and public controversy, novelist Jerry Oppenheimer refers to Ryan as the “Father of Barbie.” (However, Ryan and Ruth Handler fought over Barbie’s credits for decades, from the doll’s physical creation, to her name—Handler continued to argue Ryan’s role in Barbie’s success even after his death in 1991.)
Oppenheimer’s book expands on the exciting lifestyle led by Ken’s creator, but perhaps the juiciest of descriptions comes from actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ryan’s second wife: “My knight in shining armor, the inhabitant of a fairy-tale castle, Jack…was a full-blown seventies-style swinger into wife-swapping and sundry sexual pursuits as a way of life.
Handler’s mother Ruth put aside her shock help her son seek “natural” AIDS treatment, but the syndrome was far too developed to be treatable, according to Ken’s primary doctor, Dr. Pamela Harris.
Oppenheimer also wrote that the real-life Ken Handler grew up “embarrassed and humiliated by having an anatomically incorrect boy doll named after him [with]…no hint of genitalia.”
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