is a Japanese

TV personality Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media. An individual may attain a celebrity status from having great wealth, their participation in sports ...

and

fashion model A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Thoug ...

Biography

Tsubaki registered at

Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Originally established in 1874 by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church, it was reconfigured in its current form in 1949 as part of Aoyama Gakuin. Aoyama Gakuin Universit ...

while presenting as a male, but left in the second year to work at a transsexual bar in Kabukichō, Tokyo. In July 2006, she underwent

gender confirmation surgery Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a transgender or transsexual person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender, and alle ...

Phuket Phuket (; th, ภูเก็ต, , ms, Bukit or ''Tongkah''; Hokkien:普吉; ) is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand. It consists of the island of Phuket, the country's largest island, and another 32 smaller islands of ...

, Thailand, and in December 2006, officially changed her registered gender from male to female in her ''

koseki A or family register is a Japanese family registry. Japanese law requires all Japanese households (basically defined as married couples and their unmarried children) to make notifications of their vital records (such as births, adoptions, death ...

'' (family registry). She resumed studies at Aoyama Gakuin University in April 2007. Tsubaki also works as a fashion model for the ''

Koakuma Ageha ''Koakuma Ageha'' (, lit. "Little-devil Swallowtail ") is a gyaru fashion magazine, fashion and lifestyle magazine

'' girls' fashion magazine.

TV appearances

* (

Tokyo Broadcasting System formerly is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the television network and radio network . It has a 28-affiliate television network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affili ...

) * (

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as (also known as EX and and stylized as TV asahi), is a television station that is owned and operated by the subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Compan ...

, 2009)

Works

Books

* (June 2008) * ''C'est ma vie'', photo book (October 2008) * ''Tsubaki izen'' (椿姫以前, Before Tsubaki) (January 2009)椿姫以前 on Amazon.com
Retrieved 14 February 2009.

References

External links

Official blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsubaki, Ayana Japanese television personalities Japanese female models Japanese transgender people Aoyama Gakuin University alumni People from Tokyo 1984 births Living people Transgender female models 21st-century Japanese LGBT people