Ivan (model)

Liera Manuel Ivan (born 9 February 1984), professionally known by her mononym Ivan (stylized as IVAN), is a transgender Japanese fashion model, musician, and "tarento" belonging to LesPros Entertainment. Her father is half-Japanese and half-Spaniard, while her mother is Mexican, and she later gained Mexican nationality. She underwent a sex reassignment surgery in Thailand.
Her hobbies are making accessories and making friends, and her special skills are speaking English and Spanish and natural food and colour coordination.
Biography.
Born in Mexico, her family moved to Nara when she was two years old. In 1998, she was selected as a participant of the first Okinawa Actors School Tokyo and received singing and dancing lessons for about a year. Afterwards, she went to the United States and went to a high school in California. In 2004 she was selected as a model of Paris Fashion Week and since she is active as one of the world's top fashion models. From 2007, she started her music career produced by Hakuei, the vocalist of the Penicillin. However, after that, she suddenly disappeared from the dormitory of her former affiliation office due to the disagreements in the direction of the music career and financial problems. During this time, she experienced homelessness.
When she first appeared on "Ariyoshi's Meeting for Reviewing" (Nippon TV) on 28 September 2013, she confessed that she came out as ""Onē"." Since then, she has been openly active as a transgender "tarento".
On 12 April 2017, she experienced a severe abdominal pain, which was later diagnosed as acute peritonitis and she was hospitalised.