What age are you?

Forever 33 and never a day older.

What star sign are you?

Gemini but I believe in empirical data and not star signs.

Whereabouts are you located?

I have a great place not too far from Gettysburg PA. I live on 16 acres of woodland not far from a State forest. I spent over a year working a dungeon in midtown Manhattan at one point in my life. I love NYC but in small doses. I really am a country girl at heart.

Just like Mel really - I love the seaside and long lonely walks.....How long have you been a shemale ?

I started working towards becoming a shemale in 1996. I started with low dose hormones but hated the way I felt on them. My plan was stay on those horrible, sex drive killing drugs just long enough to develop enough mammary tissue for the plastic surgeon to work with. I had my implant surgery done in January of 01. Once I had my implants I threw away all the hormones never to take even one dose again. Unlike TS I love my cock, getting erections and Cumming. A TS is a woman trapped in a male body. A shemale is a creature of kink, fetish and perversion who wants to be the best of both. The body and face of a hot girl but with the sex drive and fetish drive of a male.

Mel nods and agrees. Th hormones certainly dont make me feel good at times but I value them for the femme mindset they give me.

What made you decide to develop your female appearance ?

It was 100% fetish driven. I just get off more on sex as a shemale in leather than I ever could have before.

Mel laughs and claps her hands - so refreshing to get such an honest view.

How long did it all take to get from where you started to now ?

I would say it took about 5 years. I didn’t want to jump into anything until I was sure it was really what I wanted and that I could make a good living as a shemale.

In rough terms what has it all cost ?

About $10,000 is my best guess. The only major plastic surgery I needed was my implant surgery. I told my doctor to give me a set of big, round, porno boobs. He laughed and he did it. Other than that I really haven’t had much done.

What would you say was the worst surgical part?  In pain terms or whatever.

The implant surgery wasn’t that bad really. For a few days after you do feel like a truck ran over your chest but it passed quickly. I did my first porno shoot just eight days later.

How do you feel with your feminine image?

Overall I am pretty happy where I am. When I get tempted to go for a tweak here or there I look at a photo of Michael Jackson and that is all I need to keep me from doing more.

What’s your sexual orientation  - do you prefer guys, gals, other TV/TS ?

Unlike most TS I prefer genetic females. Twisted, perverted, nymphomaniac genetic females. I get off on Barbie doll types in latex, satin or leather. After GG’s I like cute T girls and men come in dead last. I can have sex with males but I can only get hard if I imagine it is a female that I am playing with or a very hot T girl.

Mel calculates the cost to fly to the states and try for Barbies heart at this point. What sort of reaction did you get from parents, siblings and friends when you started to change ?

My dad passed away in 95. Mt mom doesn’t really understand but accepts me. I have no siblings and I admit I had to leave my old friends behind.

Thats so common for us T-Gils, most I know who are out have had the same thing.

Do you currently have a relationship?

Not at the moment. There are endless men who are interested but I could never have a relationship with a male. I can only fall in love with a female and there are just very few females in the world kinky enough for my sexual tastes.

Do you seek long term relationships or just casual dates ?

I do hope to find a cute and kinky girl to settle down with and have hers and hers sites on the web someday. The kind of girl who thinks enemas while bound and gagged are just good clean fun!

Mel laughs heree lots - Can you see a time when you may want to just go back to the normal world?

I don’t think I can go back. There will come a day when I will retire as a model and at that point I will begin to shoot photos and videos of others. Thanks to a great photographer and my make up artist Greg we are producing the highest quality shemale photos on the web today. I have seen what is out there and the boys in LA have a lot to learn about eroticism.

Barbie runs one of the best known shemale sites on the web with outstanding photography as you can see from the pic at the top of the page and also here.... How long have you been running your website? It will be four years on September 3rd 2003 How many people come to see your site ?  About 80,000 a month. Being so public  you must get more than your fair share of wasters  - am I right ? That is just a sad fact about being a shemale. You learn to ignore it and get on with your life or they will wear you down. I refuse to let it bother me. Your website has fantastic quality pictures - how long do you spend getting a set together ?

It takes weeks and sometimes months to get it all together for a major shoot. Hours of travel to shops to purchase the outfits and accessories for the outfits. Hours more searching Ebay and websites for the finishing touches. Then trips to fabric shops and malls to get the fabric for the backdrops and the props and set decorations.

We build the set the day before the shoot so that on shoot day all I have to worry about is being pretty and feeling horny. The shoots are done with a professional grade digital camera set to the highest possible resolution with full professional studio lighting. I also have a professional make up artist and hairdresser on set for all shoots. Some shoots can cost as much as $3,000 to produce. After the shoot is over I edit the photos for the web. They are resized and then in Photoshop I treat each photo the way a any good photographer would in the darkroom. I adjust exposure levels, use the dodge and burn tools to bring out the detail and then sharpen the fetish wear to bring out even more detail and shine. It takes about 100 hours per shoot to get the photos ready. I also take the very best photos from each shoot and create wallpapers and photo art.

I also just started to make my own WMV clips and mini movies from digital video. I will soon be producing my first full feature movie on DVD.

My site members deserve the best and I will not give them shoot after shoot of models in a $25.00 cheap, PVC dress and plastic boots. For a leather shoot all is real Italian kidskin. It shows in the photos. As a fetishist myself I know just how specific a fetish is. When I would visit a pro dom in my days before I became a shemale and ask for her to wear leather or Latex and then see her come in wearing PVC I would just leave.

My concept for what a photo shoot should be came from seeing the work of Suze Randall. Suze creates a fantasy world for her models for every shoot. The girls are gorgeous and made up to perfection.

The men who run what they call the number 1 shemale site on the web produce cheap garbage. They think men want TS and shemale to look like skanky whores shot in motel rooms. I think we are better than that and deserve better.

Barbie is also known in the US as a dominatrix. Just like Melanie so I had to ask her about this side of her life, the SM fans would have lynched me if I hadnt.....

How long have you worked as a domina ?

On and off for about 7 years. These days it is mostly off. You can produce a world class website or you can be an escort/domina. You can’t do both. Many T girls who claim to run their own sites but yet are full time escorts and travel all over the world doing sessions are really working for the porn industry. There is no way they can be building their websites. It is just one more sleazy porn industry come on.

YEs - I know the problems - I am finding my own time strtched to its limits with almost no time just for me. But what got you started ?

I always wanted a life in the world of fetish and kink. I had the bone structure, imagination and the skill to be a dominatrix. The problem was that I was fulfilling the fantasies of clients and never my own. With my site I live out my perversions in front of a camera. As an exhibitionist that makes it even better!

Do you have a favorite session style/activity ?

Does having another cute T girl play with my cock with leather gloves as she smokes count? I love a good blowjob!

It certainly would and I think I may just know a girl to do that with too, laughs.

Do you have a favorite outfit for domination ?

When I am in dom mode I love to wear buttery soft black kid leather. Long kid gloves and boots and a tight leather corset with opera hose and garters. In my submissive moods pretty pink bridal satin, long satin gloves with ribbons and bows turn me on. I love playing mommies bad little girl.

What’s you dungeon like ?

I always worked in commercial dungeons. These days I just build sets for photo shoots and I don’t have a set dungeon. I only do live sessions now for site members and only as outcalls.

Do you work with other dominas ?

Not often anymore. I am the only one in my area and I can’t travel for a session.

You also work as an escort do you find people in domination tend to have an issue with you working as an escort ?

Most female dominas do have an issue with that. I think the ones who do need to take the sticks they have up their Asses out and loosen up. S&M is all about sex and no matter how much politically correct bullshit fem doms spout off about it will always be about sex. These days most fem doms are spoiled little bitches that want to make the money a hooker makes but not have to do that awful sex. S&M to me is foreplay. Tie me up and then sit on my face, make me eat out your ass and then fuck me on latex bed sheets. Don’t give a lecture about true fem dom!

Barbie being such a public figure in the scene I was curious to get her views on both the scene and how the world sees us girls.....

Do you think the TG scene has changed much in the last 1-2 years ?

It has become far more boring. T girls today are brainwashed into thinking they have to look and act like little old ladies. I call it the real girl syndrome. If a girl goes to a support group in a latex dress these days the old bats are all over her to get her to clean up her act. To be blah and boring and like them. Many fetish girls are so desperate for the companionship of other T girls they just go along to get along. In the past few years I have also seen what I call the SRS nazis talk many T girls who are really not TS into going down that dead end road.

Mel has seen this very recently. Too many girls have a sort of vision as a TS as a kind of super TV. Its not the same at all. But I have seen peer pressure applied to TVs do go down the TS route just to 'stay in the crowd'. I dont think TS is a dead end road though - its right for some of us.

Have you ever been on the recieving end of abuse when out and about ?  How do you/did you deal with it ?

Not really. I am 6’6 tall barefoot and just have a way about me that tells rednecks I am very capable of pulling their hearts out of their asses if they start on me.

Can you see a time when T girls will be as accepted as say gays in mainstream society ?  If you can how long do you think it will take ?

Not in my lifetime. Here in the states under our dictator Bushler gay rights will soon take a major step backwards. As long as Hitler, I mean Bush is in office the inbred and corn fed born again, bible thumpers will have their way. There are still parts of the U.S where men named Billy Bob and Bubba can get away with lynching the girly boy. That can happen when sisters and brothers breed.

Lots of girls hate the phrase shemale - whats your feeling on that ?

The girls who hate that term want society to accept them for what they are. If they can’t accept shemales for being what we are then they have no right to complain. Many TS look down there noses at girls who are what they are for fetish reasons. They are oh so smug because they took the route approved of by the medical community. I say get over it. I see fetish and kink as a superior form of sexuality. If someone hates it then that’s not my problem.

Thank you Barbie for your time, now if you'll just excuse me I need to get my leather gloves, a cigarette aand check plane time tables......