Nadia is a was born in the Portugese Island of Madeira. She moved to England in 1996, and in 2003 had gender reassignment surgery. When she was a man, her name was Jorge, but she was known as Carlos. She has worked in a department store in Woking, where she lives. She has also managed a children's bookstore. Her father, Luis, didn't know his son had become his daughter until The Sun newspaper tracked him down and revealed the story of his son's sex-change. Her mother hadn't seen her for a year, since before her sex change, at the time of her Big Brother winning. But her mother had then told
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