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]

References[edit]

^ Fallece María José la Valenciana, personaje LGTBI clave del Torremolinos actual (in Spanish)
^ Te presento a María José la Valenciana, el icono trash que este país necesitaba (in Spanish)
^ Muere María José La Valenciana, mujer mítica en la noche de Torremolinos (in Spanish)

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[1] Fallece María José la Valenciana, personaje LGTBI clave del Torremolinos actual (in Spanish)

[2] Te presento a María José la Valenciana, el icono trash que este país necesitaba (in Spanish)

[3] Muere María José La Valenciana, mujer mítica en la noche de Torremolinos (in Spanish)

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