Obsessing over a pop star is nothing new. Both men and women have fallen prey to a celebrity clothing line or certain hairstyle worn by a star. Getting plastic surgery is a whole other story.
Cue Kara Hays, a 26-year-old transsexual from Ohio who has spent over $100,000 to transform into a Britney Spears doppelganger.
Hays, who was born a boy named Kody, is now a woman who (sort of?) looks like Britney Spears.
Hays has been a fan of Spears since age 12, when for a Halloween dance he dressed in a red body suit inspired by Spears’ “Oops I Did It Again†music video. As you can imagine, this caused quite a racket in his uber-conservative Ohio town.
Three years later when he was 15, he was officially diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Soon after, he began taking female hormones, dressed as a woman, grew breasts, and changed his name to Kara.
Choosing Spears as a muse was an easy choice for Hays. Reported by Daily Mail, Hays explained, “When you feel like you’re a girl living in a boy’s body and you try to change, you want that validation that you look like a girl. I viewed her as a very strong woman.â€
Hays was inspired by 90s pop stars Spears and Christina Aguilera and felt she had much in common with Spears. Besides looking like her, Hays claims she had a mental breakdown around the same time as Spears. Hays even shaved her head to match Spears’ bald ‘do.
A few years later, Hays officially became a girl when she underwent a 14-hour gender reassignment surgery and breast implant surgery. Add in blonde hair dye, makeup, and clothing and the total surpasses $100,000.
Hays is happy with her appearance now and feels liberated for the first time in her life. However, it wasn’t all smiles growing into the woman she is today. After high school, she experimented with drugs and alcohol. Hoping to become an actress, she moved to Los Angeles.
While she didn’t become a star, she was often mistaken as Britney Spears. She traded Los Angeles for New York and graduated last year from the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and began a program in public relations.
For Hays’ sake, we can only hope Spears doesn’t go on another head-shaving, umbrella-wielding meltdown.
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