Patrícia Araújo

She died in July 2019 after suffering from serious mental health problems.

Araújo began to dress as a woman, and guided by a transvestite who lived near her home, began taking hormonal control pills to become more feminized. At 15 years of age, she married a man twenty years older and lived in São Paulo. The relationship lasted four years and soon after it ended, Araújo returned to Rio de Janeiro to find work and complete high school. She could not find work and subsequently went into prostitution, first in Brazil and later in Italy, using the name Patricia Chantily. In 2009, she was mentioned on newspapers for being invited by football player Adriano to a private party in his home, allegedly with other prostitutes.

In 2009 Araújo was featured in Rio Fashion Week. She has also worked as an actress in the miniseries A Lei e o Crime and the telenovela Luz do Sol, both on the Brazilian television network Rede Record. In April 2009 she posed along with the model Pamela Sanches, for the magazine A Gata da Hora.

Araújo was born into a middle-class family in Governador Island (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil. At 12, Araújo kissed a male classmate prior to her transition inside the public school where she studied. This event generated rumors that came to the school board's attention, and Araújo was persecuted by the supervisor. Thinking that the employee's intention was only to help her, Araújo confessed she was gay. As a result, she was expelled from school in 1997 while in seventh grade.

Patrícia Araújo (also known as Patrícia Oliveira; 11 March 1982 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian actress and model. Araújo was also a former pornographic actress.