The Transformation of Hank Baskett's Transsexual Lover!

With brunette tresses, pillowy lips, and a curvy figure, Ava Sabrina London has reveled in the spotlight long before she found herself at the center of Hank Baskett’s cheating scandal. But it took $50,000 and a whopping 18 plastic surgeries for her to achieve her Barbie doll looks — because London was born a man. Only RadarOnline.com has the exclusive photos of her transformation from male to female, and the details of how she made the difficult but empowering choice to change her body.

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“I always wished I was born a girl,” London told Radar in an exclusive sit-down interview “Everything I did to my sister, I did to myself. I did her makeup, her hair, styled her. I wished I was my sister. But I never thought I’d transition.”

The former fashion student and transsexual at the center of the scandal involving Kendra Wilkinson’s husband, was actually born “Paul” in Modesto, Calif., and didn’t start undergoing hormone therapy until three years ago.

“I started in 2011 and got off them,” she said. “I was unsure if I really wanted to do this. But in the summer of 2011, I started back on them.”

~ Obtained from Radar Online