Public Project
Doll Flesh
Copyright Edoardo Pasero 2024
Updated Dec 2011
Topics Art, Documentary, Italy, Milano, Photography, Prostitution, Transgender

 

Vittoria is a transsexual of German origins born forty-eight years ago in Brazil and now living in Milan, Italy. More than 20 years ago she went through about 300 injections of liquid silicone to shape her body into that of a woman; tragically, she suddenly discovered she was intolerant. 

Once injected is almost impossible to remove the silicone from the body so the only way she had to control the intoxication was to go trough massive cortisone-based treatments. 

After so many years now of intoxication and cortisone treatments her body is consumed. She still works as a prostitute along a highway near Milan, but she never gets undressed with her clients;she doesn’t want them to be aware of her condition.

In her spare time she custom builds Barbie dolls; she buys naked plastic bodies and then she dresses them up, transforming the old body in something completely new and unconventional. Her talent is really appreciated in the world of the “custom Barbie making".

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