Gislaine Fernandes de Sousa Leme (born 22 May 1986), best known as Júlia Paes, is a Brazilian model, singer and former adult actress.

Career

Born in

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

, Gislaine started her career at 12 as a model then, with the stage name Michelle Alves, she appeared in the opening of the telenovela ''

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'' in 2006 and took part in the 2007 summer edition of the

São Paulo Fashion Week The São Paulo Fashion Week is an clothing trade show held semi-annually in São Paulo. It is notable as "Latin America's pre-eminent fashion event" and it is of the emerging fashion weeks, outside the ''Big Four'' of New York, London, Paris and ...

. Dissatisfied with the name, she later chose the stage name Júlia Paes as a reference to actress Juliana Paes. Júlia attracted the attention of Brazilian media because of her romantic relationship with

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, son of singer

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, then started a career in the adult industry as an actress and adult model. In 2009, she was elected by the newspaper ''A Folha dos Motoristas'' as "Queen of Taxi Drivers" and crowned by the Governor of

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. The same year Paes paraded with the Samba School Praiana in the Carnival of Porto Alegre. In 2009, Júlia also started her music career as lead singer of "Sexy Dolls", a girl group inspired by Pussycat Dolls consisting of her, Carol Miranda and Sabrina Boing. Júlia left "Sexy Dolls" at the end of the same year, motivated by the desire to develop other projects and with doubts about the direction the trio was taking. Júlia currently is a singer of

forró The term forró (*) refers to a musical genre, a rhythm, a dance and the event itself where forró music is played and danced. Forró is an important part of the culture of the Northeastern Region of Brazil. It encompasses various dance type ...

genre. Her debut album was released in late 2010 and a follow-up album was released at the end of 2011. Julia also makes appearances as a DJ.

Personal life

After becoming a

born-again Christian Born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and sepa ...

, she left the porn industry in 2010, and married businessman Gabriel Ribeiro, with whom she had a daughter.

TV personality 'Double'

According to an article published on Brazilian news websites her real name is actually Laíne Souza and that 'Julia' was in essence a fictional character created for entertainment purposes, much in the same way

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of the sex pistols was portrayed as the fictional Johnny Rotten.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paes, Julia Brazilian female adult models Brazilian pornographic film actresses 1986 births Living people Actresses from São Paulo Brazilian evangelicals 21st-century Brazilian singers 21st-century Brazilian women singers