María José la Valenciana
María José la Valenciana (1974 – 2 August 2018) was a Spanish internet personality, mostly known for her account on Instagram.
Life
[edit]Born in Sagunto, Province of Valencia, Spain and assigned male at birth, she was abandoned by her mother shortly after she was born and was raised with her grandparents.[1] After their deaths, she was forced to practice prostitution to survive and face the expenses of the sex change operation, working mostly in "Parthenon", a night club in Torremolinos, Málaga. She was a roommate of the vedette and prostitute La Veneno. Her father, a fisherman in the port of Sagunto, tolerated her transsexuality, something unusual at that time.[2] She began to be known in 2016 when her co-worker opened an account on Instagram, where he posted videos of her most humorous moments, reaching more than 20,000 people and Spanish public figures as followers.
Death
[edit]María José la Valenciana died on 2 August 2018 after relapsing into alcoholism shortly after finishing the detoxification process.[3]