She grew up in Caracas inside a Catholic private school where boys and girls were kept entirely separate, which means her first kiss was with another girl. Her parents divorced when she was still a child, and her mother eventually remarried an American, which is how she ended up in Chicago. She hated it — the winters specifically, the cold she describes as something she simply could not accept — and the family relocated to Miami because the climate matched what she had known in Venezuela. The public school there was the rupture point. She has described it in interviews as feeling like sudden freedom, and she traces her willingness to work in an industry that Venezuelans of her background would consider deeply shameful directly to that transition. Her family knows. She does not claim they have accepted it, only that they know, which is a distinction she seems to hold carefully. Venezuela, she has said, is religious and conservative in ways that make what she does almost unthinkable back home.
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