Nadia - My Story
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"I was so unbelievably happy that she came to see me, I can't even express how happy that made me. It was a shock but such a nice shock. We have a lot of catching up to do. I can't believe she's here! I can't wait to spend lots of time with her over the next few days.
"I missed my special friends and my beautiful family so much. They have stood by me throughout everything."
Nadia has not seen her father Luis Leodoro, 51, since he walked out on them when they were living in South Africa in 1992.
He was tracked down to a remote town on the border with Botswana where he now makes a living stacking shelves in a shop.
He only heard last week that Jorge was now a woman. But as he sipped champagne yesterday, he toasted Nadia's success and said he was counting the seconds before he would meet his new daughter. "I have been practising to make sure I call her Nadia, not Jorge," he said. "She looks so beautiful in the pictures, I cannot wait to see her in the flesh.
"Nadia is extremely beautiful - perhaps the most beautiful woman our family has ever produced, though I would love her even if she wasn't beautiful."
But Nadia says she is not sure whether she wanted to see Luis. Smiling wistfully, she said: "The only problem I have with my family is my dad. That goes back a lot of years.
"I'm not sure whether I will see him again. I have a lot of other things to think about first."
Sultry Nadia told how she at first fancied Jason in the Big Brother House and thought he had an amazing body. But she went off him after getting to know him and having shouting matches with him.
She said: "I thought he was gorgeous at first, especially when he went into the house in just a leopard-skin thong.
"Initially he was very attractive to me, because he is my type physically. He is a good-looking man and I noticed him admiring my breasts a few times.
"But then I got to know him! Me and him clashed a bit because we are both fiery personalities.
I WANT my man to be someone kind, trustworthy - that's very important - and someone who is willing to share everything with me. I am so happy right now and I would love to share that with somebody.
"I would love a big white wedding. I can't wait to walk up the aisle in that dress, looking fabulous and feeling so happy.
"It's every little girl's dream - and in my mind, I have always been a girl. So it's what I want so much."
Nadia's only sadness is that she will never be able to bear children. Her eyes filled with tears as she said: "I got used to that idea a long time ago because I have had to.
"But it still makes me sad because I would love to have a family. I don't know whether I would adopt. But I do love children."
Nadia almost confessed her secret to her fellow housemates when they were talking about having babies. She had to admit she could not have children despite being young and fit - and curious housemates asked why.
She admitted: "I don't like lying and before that point I hadn't really had to lie - I just didn't tell the whole truth.
Nadia's sex-change op cost £15,000 - and she had it done on after arriving here from Madeira in 1999.
She - then he - was assessed by a GP and a psychiatrist before being sent to a gender assessment clinic. Nadia was then put on its male-to-female programme which includes counselling, therapy and hormone treatment.
She was told she had to hold down a job as a woman for at least 12 months and did a stint at Sainsbury's in Woking, Surrey.
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