ABSTRACT

My name is Carmen Rupe and I’m from the beautiful country of New Zealand. I am Maori, with some English and French ancestors thrown in, from the Ngati Maniopoto tribe in the king country town of Taumarunui. My father’s tribe was Maniopoto and my mother’s Ngati Haua. I was actually born Trevor David Rupe but somewhere along the way to my seventy-plus years young, I became Carmen, New Zealand’s first famous out-and-out transsexual striptease artist.