Photos: Meet The Woman With ‘The Most Expensive Body On Earth’

You can’t possibly love celebrity news and gossip and not have heard of the name Amanda Lepore before. The 46-year-old singer, performance artist, and model also happens to be the world’s most famous transgender, and is proud to say she has “the most expensive body on Earth.”

Amanda was born Armand but, she says in a new piece for Into the Gloss, she always knew she wanted to be a girl, from a very young age. Her journey to finally become a woman and then to become the most famous transgender in showbiz was one so difficult and unlikely that even she has trouble believing it at times.

“I knew I wasn’t gay: I liked boys, but not as a boy. I had a woman’s mind,” Amanda writes of her feelings when she was still in high school, before she started being tutored at home at the age of 16.
A friend of hers started supplying her with hormones whilst she played with clothes and makeup and all kinds of accessories. She was an isolated child but that wasn’t the worst part, she writes: what was worse was the fact that her parents didn’t understand and support her decision of getting gender reassignment surgery.

That didn’t happen until she was 19, with Amanda saying that the surgery itself wasn’t the most painful part of the intervention, but rather the dilator you have to use throughout the entire healing process.
Asked how much her cosmetic work has cost in total, the busty blonde declined to provide an answer, merely stating: ‘There is a reason I am labeled ‘The Most Expensive Body On Earth’. She says that her sex change from male to female, was the most painful procedure she’s had done. ‘It didn’t hurt when I got it done at the hospital,’ she recounted. ‘But they give you a dilator as part of the healing process, which you have to keep in for extended periods of time to stretch the vaginal opening. It felt like a knife. It was the most painful thing I had ever experienced.’
‘I really associate glamour with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great’. She has since appeared in fashion magazines, including French Playboy and Vogue, and scored cameos in music videos for artists including Elton John, The Dandy Warhols, and Grace Jones.
When it comes to fashion, Ms Lepore says she likes tight-fitting clothing that shows off her ‘tiny waist.’ And on the beauty front, she says she always does her hair and make-up herself because she’s very particular about her look.
‘It’s a celebration of loving yourself, and the whole ritual of it is so great.’

         
                      

   

                                 

                                                 

                                                 

                                               

#O.M.G she's sooOoooo beautiful that she reminds me of Marylin Monroe!!! #OkBye