Jena Malone

Alves were born Rodrigo Alves on 30 July 1983 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to the parents of a Brazilian mother and a British father. His father, Roserval Alves, hailed from an ethnically Portuguese family that arrived in Brazil in the 1940s. [5] The original business of the Alves family was agriculture. But, later on, they increased their involvement in commercial and residential property. Her father bought Barbie dolls to her while she was just a child. While Alves was assigned male at birth, at "the time of age three or four, five or six" she considered herself to be female. She played with dolls and cross-dressed. Alves believes it is not appropriate to identify people according to their gender. 8] She was shy, and bullied throughout childhood. When she was a teenager, Alves had a hormone malfunction, and too much estrogen causing the breasts to expand; the other characteristics she had were targeted by bullies. In addition, her family runs many grocery stores in Brazil that have made them prosperous, but at the time of writing, Alves has not made any profit relating to the supermarkets. Alves was 18 when she relocated to London where she studied communications at London College of Communication. London College of Communication. [3][4] Alves receives cash from her maternal grandparents.