Her mom, on the other hand, was supportive with her son wearing make up and dress as a girl, but she was against a gender reassignment surgery.
Wanting to be a real girl so badly, Lepore convinced her boyfriend’s father to adopt her and sign all the necessary documents for her surgery.
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“I think he was happy that his son found a nice girl,” she said of her-father-in-law paying for the procedure.
In the years that followed, besides having her nose done, she got her first breast implants.
After she divorced her husband, Lepore suffered a tragedy; her mother died of cancer.
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She was then determined to start her life over, and that meant cutting all ties with her father, whom she last saw at her mother’s funeral.
Once she left New Jersey and moved to “The Big Apple,” Lepore became an instant sensation. The public first learnt of her and her impeccable style when she appeared on The Joan Rivers Show with NYC’s “Club Kids in 1990.
