Big Brother star Nadia Almada showed off the result of her recent facelift as she hit the beach in Turkey on Thursday.
The reality TV icon, 49, shot to fame after winning the fifth series of Big Brother UK in 2004, but has a whole new look two decades on after opting for cosmetic enhancements and a gastric sleeve.
Nadia, who made history as the first transgender contestant on the show, was still bandaged and bruised from her facelift earlier in the week.
Yet that didn’t stop her from working on topping up her tan as she sunbathed in a skimpy floral bikini.
The tiny two-piece showcased her incredible weight loss, having lost six stone since her gastric sleeve surgery last year.
Nadia completed her beach look by scraping her blonde locks in a bun beneath a black baseball cap.
Big Brother star Nadia Almada showed off the result of her recent facelift as she hit the beach in Turkey on Thursday
Nadia, who made history as the first transgender contestant on the show, was still bandaged and bruised from her facelift earlier in the week
The reality TV icon, 49, shot to fame after winning the fifth series of Big Brother UK in 2004, (right) but has a whole new look two decades on after opting for cosmetic enhancements
Last year, Nadia insisted that she’d ‘rather refuse treatment than wake up on a male ward’ as she slammed what she deemed a ‘terrifying’ Supreme Court ruling.
She appeared on TV to discuss the Supreme Court announcing that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex in a landmark judgement.
Nadia said: ‘It’s a terrifying time for me. It does, the whole idea that we are not a woman for that matter, based on our sex. It’s terrifying…
‘For me, for us, people from our generation who have lived with those experiences of being discriminated and now, having those protected rights taken away from us, it’s very very dehumanising.
‘It’s terrifying. I don’t even know what else to say.’
When asked about her pains, she continued: ‘It pains me that my identity is being questioned and also where the sex and gender comes first.
‘With the Supreme Court ruling, it’s making such a binary terms, it doesn’t really include non binary or recognise non binary or intersex people. Is really sex binary? I don’t think it is.
‘For me, it’s about my identity, the most of the time, people identify me as transgender, but I believe in my way, of how I carry my life, I’m a woman first and a second of trans identity.
‘This is how I live my life and how I navigate through society. This is quite important to me, if I’m going to be classified anything other than female because of certified sex versus birth sex, it’s troubling times.
‘Generally speaking with the community, we all express the same sentiment. The idea of waking up in a male ward – I would rather refuse treatment than have to be subjected to that…’
Nadia’s recent surgery didn’t stop her from working on topping up her tan as she sunbathed in a skimpy floral bikini
The tiny two-piece showcased her incredible weight loss, having lost six stone since her gastric sleeve surgery last year
Nadia completed her beach look by scraping her blonde locks in a bun beneath a black baseball cap
She seemed in good spirits as she posed for selfies on the shoreline
She continued: ‘Once this happened [the Supreme Court ruling], it triggered the whole idea of how feminine I am, how are people going to see me, do I have the right westernised views of what a woman should look like or present as.
‘And then I went insane about my identity.’
Earlier this year, Nadia appeared on the Remember Me? podcast and was asked by Maisie Adam: ‘What’s a common misconception that people might have about fame?’
She said: ‘The fame equates to happiness. It does not. That [fame] equates to money. It may come with that, but fame doesn’t necessarily equate to having like seven figures. It does not equate any of those things.
‘Fame is actually the worst side of being a public person.’
