Hi, everybody.
Let me introduce myself.
I'm Micaela, aka Silversnake Michelle. I'm 39 years old.
Until 2007 my life was a very ordinary life, I graduated in law and I became a lawyer. I got married and worked in law firms. As a hobby I acted at theatre and, on the side, I was a model and hostess at trade exhibitions.
Then in 2007 I got pregnant without knowing it, but above all without wanting to.
I know how to have children, but the doctors told me that I could never, so I took this statement as a natural contraceptive. But no...
So in October 2007 my son was born... well what I felt is not exactly like is told or thought... I was scared, I had a sense of frustration because my body was changed... and I had the responsibility of a tiny little being depending on me... me that I wasn't able to take care of myself either.
The whole thing scared me, but I got into Mom's role pretty well. Yes, I said well... in the role...
Because that wasn't me... everyone was telling me what to do and how to behave as a mother... and I was literally following the instructions even when I would behave otherwise. But what else is new? In order to be accepted, I always sacrificed my identity in favor of something that could have the approval... But this time the epilogue would have been very different, and I didn't know it yet...
I didn't last long and when my baby was about 18 months old I began to feel the need to revive my side that I had always gradually wiped out.

I started singing, attending a sacred music choir (well, I started from afar...).
Then I felt the need to regain self-confidence on my body and I did burlesque and pole dancing, and then I was dragged to sing in a rock band... a short experience because I was scared to really be myself for the first time...
And so I choked it all up again.
I didn't feel quite adequate in being me... I needed someone to give me clearance to free my true soul and to be approved by the world... I wasn't ready to face myself, but something was pawing inside...
I decided to expose myself by doing burlesque and creating a character that could be really free, even if it was only a character after all...
I didn’t realize that, just in that moment, I was really myself...
But that didn't please me, it wasn't enough for me: I didn't just need to show myself "naked"... I needed to create and to create myself...

One day in January 2012, I learned the news of the suicide of a friend of mine… and I realized a terrible truth: I had died too, for a long time.
That was the worst and most beautiful moment at the same time.
I let myself die completely and from those ashes came to life Silversnake Michelle, a strong and rebellious alter ego, that with power and aggressiveness has brought out and still brings out the real Me.