No I’m not referring to the actual superstar Haifa Wehbe. Meet @HaiifaMJk on Instagram ,at first you’d probably guess this is yet another one of those hundreds of women in the Middle East obsessed with looking and acting every inch like Haifa, with her signature black hair, bee stung lips, colored lenses, striking curves and seductive demeanor.
Well, this one’s a little different, you’ll probably be surprised to find out it’s actually a transsexual Arab man with Palestinian origins whose taken that obsession to the next level and undergone plastic surgeries (he denies them) including sex reassignment surgery to emulate his favorite star. Although he’s been reported to live in Thailand, Haiifa MJK whose real name is unknown has also been spotted in Dubai, where he’s been also reported to have been booked for various singing gigs and has made a career out of emulating his favorite star. He’s now also giving beauty tips and makeup tutorials to women after various inquires by fans.
Calling him controversial would be the understatement of the year, a title which he welcomes, with a whopping 289,000 followers on his private Instagram account-yes you need to be approved to view his profile- he definitely speaks and acts like a diva, as evident in his captions- regularly throwing shade at his haters who he calls old spinsters, thanks his own booty and brags about his fame.
But what’s really got people talking is the videos he posts of himself very provocatively dancing around half-naked and lip-synching to Arabic songs. And although I think he’s managed to look like a woman, it’s his husky voice that gives him away.
I personally don’t care that he’s a transvestite, to each his own. He has a great body but I just thing he comes off way too hyper sexual, relies heavily on the shock factor and is a total attention seeker. His account looks practically looks like a soft-porn hub. But I think this is the ultimate compliment to Haifa Wehbe, you know you’ve become an icon when men undergo complete transformations just to look like you!
What do you think?
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Transvestite and transsexual mean two completely different things. Someone who has undergone sex reassignment surgery is NOT a transvestite and should be referred to by their preferred pronoun (which may be “she” in this case). A transvestite is someone who wears the clothing of the opposite sex, but still they would not identify as being the opposite sex. You can’t use the terms interchangeably for the same person.
Micho l cherir and fifo the lebanese ones should get their own post too
Hey Ivy, I’m sorry but I’m going to have to agree with Daisy on this one. Transvestite and transsexual are two completely different things. I always love reading your posts, but the tone of this one really came off as ignorant. By you repeatedly referring to this person with a male pronoun completely overlooks the fact that this person clearly identifies as a woman. Just because someone is born with male sexual organs doesn’t necessarily mean they will identify with the male gender. With all the research coming out on gender dysphoria, it’s become apparent that the chromosomal sex (XX for females, XY for males) is disjointed from gender, i.e. “I know I’m a woman (or man) on the inside.”
I could get into the science (hormones, physiological and biological embryonic development) in a detailed post, but then it would be too long. If you’re going to make fun of this person for being over the top, then yeah, by all means. However, if you’re going to ridicule them for having undergone an alleged sex re-assignment surgery for the sole purpose of looking like Haifa Wehbe, while completely dismissing the potential psychological duress of being born as male but feeling like female on the inside, then I’m incredibly disappointed.
He is Iraqi
No lebanese
*she *woman *transgender… why are you so transphobic? if she says she’s a woman and she identifies as a woman, shes a woman. calling her a man, using he pronouns is an act of transmisogyny… cmon