Ivan (model)


Liera Manuel Ivan, professionally known by her mononym Ivan, is a transgender Japanese fashion model, musician, and tarento belonging to N-Weed. Her father is half-Japanese and half-Spaniard, while her mother is Mexican, and she later gained Mexican nationality. On 21 November 2013, her Japanese public name during the premiere of the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Japan was announced as "Akira Kasahara.". She underwent a transsexual operation in Thailand.
Her hobbies are making accessories and making friends, and her special skills are speaking English and Spanish and natural food and colour coordination.

Biography

Born in Mexico, she was emigrated to Nara when she was two years old. In 1998, she was selected as a first year student of the Okinawa Actors School Tokyo and received singing and dancing lessons for about a year. Afterwards, she went to the United States and went to a high school in California. In 2004 she was selected as a model of Paris Fashion Week and was also active as one of the world's top models. From 2007, she would also begin music activities by Hakuei who is a vocalist of the full-scale band Penicillin. However, after that, she suddenly disappeared, and jumped out of the dormitory of her former affiliation office due to the difference in the direction of the music activity and financial problems, and also experienced homelessness at the time.
When she first appeared on Ariyoshi's Meeting for Reviewing on 28 September 2013, she confessed that she came out as "Onē." Since then, she has been acting as a transgender tarento.
On 12 April 2017, she complained of severe abdominal pain, and was delivered to the hospital for emergency, in which she revealed on her blog that she was diagnosed with acute peritonitis at the destination hospital and was hospitalised.

Major appearances

TV dramas

;Magazines
;Main shows
;Singles
  1. Love Me Tender
  2. Darker Pink
  3. Hikari