Kimberly Devine

Transsexual entertainer Kimberly Devine was born in Louisiana in July, 1975. She felt restrained by her father’s position (a locomotive engineer), her mother’s businesses (childcare centers), and her uncle’s political position (mayor of her hometown) from indulging her identification with the female sex, which she felt from her earliest childhood. Following her graduation from high school she worked at a gentlemen's club as a make-up artist. Feeling a need to "find herself", at age 17, she moved to New Orleans, where she saw her first transwoman and realized that her own dream of becoming a woman was possible. Ms. Devine traveled to Hollywood, with Meghan Chavalier and another friend, April, returning for good soon thereafter. Her first professional job was as a model for Transformation Magazine, a periodical devoted to transvestites and transsexuals. She named herself “Devine” after a deceased friend when her choice seemed to be confirmed by the fact that, upon switching on the tele...