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Born | Liera Manuel Ivan 9 February 1984 |
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Years active | 2002–present |
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Height | 184.5 cm (6 ft 1 in) |
Liera Manuel Ivan (born 9 February 1984), professionally known by her mononym Ivan (stylized as IVAN), is a Japanese transgender model, musician, and tarento belonging to LesPros Entertainment. She underwent a sex reassignment surgery in Thailand. [1]
Born in Mexico, her family moved to Nara when she was two years old. [2] Her father is of Japanese and Spanish descent, while her mother is Mexican. [3] She later gained Mexican nationality. [2] In 1998, she was selected as a participant of the first Okinawa Actors School Tokyo and received singing and dancing lessons for about a year. Afterwards, she went to the United States and went to a high school in California. In 2004 she was selected as a model of Paris Fashion Week and since she is active as one of the world's top fashion models. From 2007, she started her music career produced by Hakuei, the vocalist of the Penicillin. However, after that, she suddenly disappeared from the dormitory of her former affiliation office due to the disagreements in the direction of the music career and financial problems. During this time, she experienced homelessness. [4]
When she first appeared on Ariyoshi's Meeting for Reviewing (Nippon TV) on 28 September 2013, she confessed that she came out as "Onē." [4] Since then, she has been openly active as a transgender tarento .
On 12 April 2017, she experienced a severe abdominal pain, which was later diagnosed as acute peritonitis and she was hospitalised. [5]
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