Patrícia Araújo
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Patrícia Araújo born Felipe Araújo (Rio de Janeiro, 11 March 1982) is a Brazil
Brazil
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ian transsexual actress and model
Model (person)
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. Patricia is also a former pornographic actress.

Biography

Patricia Araujo was born into a middle-class family in Governador Island
Governador Island
Governador Island is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a population of about 500,000 inhabitants, in a small area of ....

 (Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

), Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, and named Felipe. At 12, Araujo kissed a classmate, Andre, inside the public school where she studied. This event generated rumours that came to the school board's attention, and Patricia was persecuted by the supervisor. Thinking that the employee's intention was only to help her, Araujo confessed she was gay. As a result she was expelled from school in 1997 whilst still in seventh grade. After the incident, Patricia confessed to her parents, Severino Araujo and stay-at-home Terezinha Araujo, both evangelicals
Protestantism in Brazil
Protestantism in Brazil was first practiced by Huguenot travelers in attempts to colonize the country while it was under the Portuguese colonial rule. These attempts, however, would not persist. A French mission sent by John Calvin was established in 1557, in one of the islands of Guanabara Bay,...

, that she saw herself as a woman, not a man and was attracted to boys. Her older brother, whose name she does not disclose, wanted her to be expelled from the house because of it, but her parents supported her. Patricia began to dress as a woman, and guided by a transvestite who lived near her home, began taking birth control pills to become more feminised. At 15 years of age, she married a man twenty years older and lived in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

. The relationship lasted four years and soon after it ended, Patricia returned to Rio de Janeiro to find work and complete high school. She could find work and subsequently went into prostitution, first in Brazil and later in Italy
Italy
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, using the name Patricia Chantily.

Patricia has been featured in Fashion Rio in 2009. She has also worked as an actress in the miniseries A Lei e o Crime
A lei e o Crime
A Lei e o Crime is a Brazilian serial dramatic television series, created by Marcílio Moraes, produced and broadcast by Rede Record, which premiered on January 9, 2009....

 and the telenovela Luz do Sol, both of the Brazilian television network Rede Record
Rede Record
Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

. In April 2009 she posed along with the model Pamela Sanches, for the magazine A Gata da Hora.

When Patricia was performing in erotic films, she was known for not showing her breasts because her nipples were "crossed" or wall eyed She recently had surgery to correct this problem, and now has allegedly "perfect"breasts.

Legally, her name is Patrícia Oliveira.

Partial Filmography

  • Rogue Adventures 5 (1999)
  • Shemale Yum Takes On Brazilian Transsexuals 3 (2002)
  • Gia Darling's Shemale Slumber Party (2003)
  • Big-Ass She-Male All-Stars (2003)
  • She-Male Slumber Party (2003)
  • Trans X 2 (2003)

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