Hermaphrodite model voted off TV contest

Hermaphrodite model voted off TV contest

Michalina Manios is a stunner as a woman. Pic from www.thesun.co.uk

A hermaphrodite model who made it to the final three of Poland's Next Top Model has now been voted off.

Stunning Michalina Manios, 22, astonished the show's judges when she revealed she had been considered male until an operation four years ago to remove her male genitalia.

After the op, she changed her name and started a new life as a woman.

And she had been a popular contestant on the TV model competition after telling the judging panel her secret in September.

"I was born a hermaphrodite and when the doctors first saw me they assumed I was a boy as I had male genitalia," she had said.

'But I grew up feeling more feminine than male and so four years ago I had an operation to remove the male bits and changed my name."

But this week viewers in conservative Poland voted against Michalina.

Judge Marcin Tyszka said after the vote: "Her appearance and success on this show is a lesson for our whole country."

While Michalina, from the city of Szadek, added: "It's been an amazing journey and I am proud to have got this far. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. But we'll see." - www.thesun.co.uk