Mhoni Vidente, born in Cuba as Rafael Martínez de León, overcame a childhood marked by her mother's death and bullying to become a renowned clairvoyant. Her gender transition and a kidnapping in the 1990s shaped her life, while a supernatural experience in 1989 granted her the gift of predicting the future. Today, with millions of followers, she is one of the most respected psychics in Mexico and the entertainment world.
Mhoni Vidente was born in Cuba as Rafael Martínez de León, assigned male at birth, and gained Mexican nationality through her father from Monterrey, Nuevo León. Her nickname comes from a Spanish adaptation of the word 'money'. At age two, she lost her mother to uterine cancer, and her maternal grandmother raised her, respecting her gender identity from an early age. Due to bullying at school for not identifying as male, her grandmother homeschooled her.
At 15, in Cuba, she underwent her first gender reassignment surgery: removal of testicles to stop testosterone production. The following year, with breast implants funded by her grandmother, and at 18, she had vaginoplasty. By 2019, she had four surgeries to achieve a more feminine appearance.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Mhoni dated a powerful drug trafficker who ended up in prison. A settling of scores between factions led to her kidnapping: she was held until her boyfriend released two captive men. Foreseeing the event, she predicted her release after three days, which happened, prompting her to leave that world behind.
On May 13, 1989, lightning struck her in Cuba during a storm, causing a vision of 'hell' with 72 demons, from which a woman in white—later identified as the Virgin of Fatima—saved her. On May 27, the same figure revealed: 'Mhoni, from now on you will tell people what will happen in the future.' At 13, she didn't fully understand, but her first prediction was her grandmother's death that Friday, which came true.
Fame arrived in 2010 on the Sabadazo program, where she predicted an earthquake that afternoon, Tigres' first championship in years, and a Latin American pope, all accurate. She stayed four years and foresaw events like the deaths of Jenni Rivera and Juan Gabriel, establishing her as an influential psychic with spot-on international predictions.
