Nikki Exotica
Nikki Exotica
Nikki Exotica (Born January 27, 1982)[1] is a 38-year-old transgender woman from Hoboken, New Jersey, who has wanted to look like her buxom icon since she was 4 years old[2]. She has been a professional singer since 2006 and performs electro-dance-pop shows all over the United States.
Early Life
Nikki Exotica was conceived in 1982 in Hobokon, New Jersey.
Nikki’s real name is Nicole Sander, she has always dreamed of being an entertainer at age seven[2].
At her tender age, she was obsessed with playing with dolls as a child and felt like a girl trapped in a boy’s body for as long as she can remember.
She told Caters:
“I would always sit down when I went to the bathroom, I never stood up, it felt like I was born with the wrong genitals even at that age."
Even though at her tender age, she did not know what transgender was and she also kept it as a secret from everyone.
“I was confused and ashamed.
I didn’t know what was wrong with me.
Back then I did not know about being trans and it was a secret I kept from everyone.”
She would put on make-up in the bathroom, put nail polish on her nails, she would always sit down to pee on the toilet.’
She admits that ‘living this life is not easy,’ and at age 16, she tried to commit suicide[3].
Career
Nikki Exotica is the first transgender music artist that went mainstream.
She began taking illicit hormones and underwent sex reassignment surgery when she was 19.
Nikki, calls herself Magogany because she’s a ‘mixture of Madonna, Lady Gaga and Britney all in one as in one artist,’ she always dreamed of being an entertainer[4].
Exotika started her career at age 18 as a fashion model and doing shows at the Xtravaganza house under the name "Nicole Xtravaganza".
She, in the end, changed her concentration from displaying and moved to act and music and discharged a sum of five singles, featured in the film Trantasia (2006), and several television appearances on shows including Jerseylicious, Maury, The Tyra Banks Show, and Explosiv, among others.
Exotika joins others like her on reality TV show called “Plastics of Hollywood,” a real-life dollhouse showcasing people who have collectively spent over $4 million changing their appearances[5] .
She created the Secret Girls (an American girl group consisting of only transgender women).
The group member consists of Raquel Starr, Eleet, Jazlene Ban and Herself.
The group made their debut on June 28, 2015, at New York City Pride performing a two-song set consisting of covers.
Transgender
Nikki Exotica have performed several surgeries in her pursuit to be a barbie.
Her obsession with perfection drove her to have six nose jobs, multiple eye surgeries, hairline surgeries, Breast implant, calf implants, botox, Rhinoplasty and several other expensive procedures[7].
Exotika has spent more than $1 million on her makeover and she doesn’t regret forking over a single penny on the “gallons of silicone” in her body.
She describes the pleasure of her experience as a trans as a worthwhile one.
She said:
"while traveling the world everywhere I go people look at me and say ‘Wow, look at her body, she looks like Barbie’ and always want to take pictures with me."