The popular influencer Wendy Guevara Venegas became the first trans woman to succeed in a reality show in Mexico by winning the first prize of the television program La Casa de los Famosos, produced by Televisa.
After 10 weeks in the competition, he obtained 4 million pesos (approximately $234,000 or ¢125 million) and the constant recognition of the public inside and outside of Mexico.
For 71 days, Guevara told her story authentically and was hailed by people for her sincerity, vulnerability, humor, and spontaneity.
Before becoming an entertainment figure, Guevara, 30, engaged in prostitution with her trans partners.
By telling her story in La Casa de los Famosos -a Big Brother-style television format-, the influencer provided an authentic story about the lives of trans women, specifically in León, Mexico, her city of birth.
Since his childhood, Guevara suffered discrimination in his family and school environment. In one of the testimonials that he shared during the competition, he recounted that he did not finish high school.
Initially he suffered a traffic accident in fifth grade, which caused him to miss the school year. After this situation, she had to drop out of high school, just a month after starting her seventh year, since she suffered bullying from his classmates because he was different.
He also had problems in his family from an early age. Since she was little, she played with dolls secretly from her father and her brother, since they both beat her and were ashamed of how she behaved and her personality.
Now his story is different. The affection they have for him is such that people took to the streets to celebrate his triumph on television, filling places like the Zona Rosa and the Ángel de la Independencia in Mexico City, or his neighborhood of Coecillo, in Guanajuato.
Wendy Guevara’s neighborhood celebrated her triumph
Guevara has been a sensation on social networks, which he fed with live broadcasts to interact with his fans.
Since the beginning of June, when the program began, the influencer has increased her numbers on social networks: she currently has 5.3 million followers on Instagram and 456,000 on YouTube.
His rise to fame came in 2017, when he got lost with his friend Paola Suárez on a hill and his video went viral on the Internet.
Later, she became a public figure who continued to make content with her colleagues Paola Suárez and Kimberly Irene, known as Las Perdidas.
Even one of Guevara’s best-known memes is his derogatory gesture, which he shared in one of his YouTube videos as a reaction to his partner Paola, who was bathing next to him.
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For the final of La Casa de los Famosos México, Guevara competed against Emilio Osorio, Sergio Mayer, Poncho De Grinis and Nicola Porcella. However, the influencer swept more than 18 million votes from the public and took first place.
In this competition, 14 Mexican entertainment figures participated, who stayed together in a house for 10 weeks surrounded by cameras that recorded all their interactions and movements. During this stay, the infinity of memes, expressions and phrases of the Mexican influencer stood out.
When he received the win, Guevara thanked the public for their support over more than 2 months:
“I am very grateful to all the people who are here and who are at home, for letting the world know that a girl like me, from the gay and trans community, can,” added the figure.
Even celebrities from Latin American entertainment expressed their support for Guevara throughout the competition, including Danna Paola, Belinda, Gloria Trevi, Angélica Vale and Manuel Turizo.
“Your success means a step forward in this fight for equality, for acceptance and for respect of which I am also a part. So a lot of people are very proud of you ”, wrote the singer Trevi on her Instagram profile.
2023-08-14 18:36:58
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