Meet MANdonna! The Chilean transvestite who does Madonna better than Madonna!
Elias Figueroa, a 28-year-old megafan of the superstar, has decided to do everything in his power to imitate his idol, including dressing like her. He now does it for a living and makes roughly $12,000 a year performing as the singer. Which, in that country is quite a bit of money.
He says he loves his crazy lifestyle: “I live the life of a superstar. Strangers flock to me, tell me they love me and even try to grab my bum. I’m so good at playing Madonna, some people can’t tell the difference between me and the real thing they don’t even realize I’m a man.”
He says he got started at 15-years-old when he first performed as Madge for a friend’s birthday party.
“My friend’s didn’t know how much I had been practicing so when they saw me they thought it was totally amazing. I watched every Madonna video I could find and studied every single detail her clothes, hair, make-up, gestures and attitude.”
These days he performs multiple times a week in Chilean nightclubs, sometimes for as many as 20,000 people.
“Being Madonna completes me. On stage I am her. I leave Elias behind and become completely confident, sexy and outrageous like her. She has so many roles and personalities in her songs that I get to be each of those. I feel sexy like her. She’s like a modern Marilyn Monroe. And I love the attention of being on stage. The crowd always goes wild and I get lots of compliments. It’s a gay man’s fantasy to be so glamorous and live this lifestyle like a celebrity.”
Below: Elias as himself.
[DM]
He’s got more going on than Madge these days! He’s got something she’d kill for too–youth, annnd…he is gorgeous! Poor Madonna, I miss the old her, she used to be so fierce hot the current her is just plain fierce (and not in a good way, sadly.)