Jessica Alves has said she has travelled to Brazil in her bid to become the first known transgender woman to have a womb transplant
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Jessica Alves has revealed she has travelled to Brazil in her bid to become the first known transgender woman to have a womb transplant.
The Celebrity Big Brother star, 38, shared her hope that she would be able to get pregnant after undergoing the £30,000 transplant.
It is possible that Jessica could fall pregnant through IVF if she decided to go through with the transplant.
There has never officially been a successful womb transplant performed on a transgender woman, but Jessica claimed that several women have privately undergone the operation in Brazil.
Jessica claimed she has booked in to undergo the transplant, but must still undergo tests and exams before the operation.
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She insisted that she will not go through with the surgery if doctors decide it is not safe.
Jessica told The MailOnline: “There are some very good doctors here that could hopefully do it. The surgery is do-able, the same way that surgery is done on a biological woman. To a transgender woman is is exactly the same thing.
‘To get pregnant I need to have IVF treatment after the surgery. To be honest I don’t know the success rate, because there’s aren’t many reports about it, people have done it but they’ve done it very quietly.
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“Maybe I’m the first person in the world to do it, but I believe there are some who have had the surgery done but they just don’t talk about it.”
There has only ever been one documented case of a transgender woman – Danish artist Lili Elbe – undergoing a uterus transplant, but she died from complications just months later.
Doctors say advances in womb transplantation mean it’s now theoretically possible for a trans woman to give birth after the surgery, but the pelvis would be too narrow for the baby to pass through, meaning the mother would have to would have to give birth by caesarean section.
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Hormones might have to be given to replicate the changes that go on while a woman is pregnant.
The operation is still considered to be an experimental procedure.
Only a handful of women around the world have successfully had a womb transplant and a smaller number have been able to give birth to a child.
The procedure carries risks of include organ rejection, urinary tract infections, blood clots, and internal bruising.
Jessica rose to fame as Human Ken Doll due to spending more than £600,000 on altering her looks with plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures.
She had spent a fortune “trying to become the man she thought she should be” before coming out as transgender.
Earlier this year she spent a further £13,700 to undergo gender confirmation surgery in Bangkok in Thailand.
