Drag Star Finally Tells the Truth About Doing Plastic Surgeries

RuPaul Charles has become the most famous drag queen in the US. He started out with nothing and worked his way up. These days, he boasts one of the most popular reality shows in the US, RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Life hasn’t always been easy for RuPaul, with him battling both himself and others in order to move forward. Now, he’s created an empire following careers in several entertainment fields, and his resulting net worth is truly staggering.

So how did he get to the point where he’s at today? Here’s all you need to know about RuPaul Charles – including the truth about his Botox injections.

RuPaul Charles was born on November 17, 1960 in San Diego California. When he was only seven years of age, his parents divorced and he was raised by his mother. All in all, it was quite a chaotic childhood.

RuPaul – early life

“My family life was tumultuous – crazy hillbilly people,” he said. “Navigating through that and keeping my equilibrium even as a child… I learned how to do that early on.”

RuPaul described himself as a “sissy boy”, but he didn’t “have any issues” in terms of being bullied by other kids. At a young age, he loved performing, initially to get the attention of his father, who preferred “the company of women.”

“It’s not an accident that eventually I became the prettiest of all the girls,” he said.

At the same time as Ru wanted to get his father’s attention through his performances, his mother had a different tactic entirely. As reported by Rolling Stone, mamma Charles used to douse her husband’s car in gasoline and taunt him with a book of matches.

“She was a bad b**ch,” RuPaul recalled. “Everyone in the neighborhood called her Mean Miss Charles, and I said, ‘No, she’s not mean, she’s just direct’.”

At the age of 15, RuPaul and his older sister relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. He went on to enroll at the Northside School of Performing Arts, but never graduated. It was here that he beginning experimenting by wearing his sister’s clothes.

Even though he didn’t finish school, RuPaul laid the groundwork for his now successful career. After dropping out of school, he turned to selling used cars for money. By 21, however, he knew that he couldn’t continue with it.

First performances in Atlanta

At that point, he understood that it was his destiny to be famous – and he would do whatever it took to get there.

“I knew I had a personality, had something that I thought had value,” he told Rolling Stone. “I just didn’t know specifically what language or what venue it would be.”

RuPaul Charles started performing in the Atlanta area. He worked go-go dancing in nightclubs, MC’ing several events, as well as performing on public access television. At that point, he also founded his first band, called RuPaul and the U-Hauls.

“Drag sort of happened to us,” he told Oprah.

“It was very different from the kind I do now—it was punk rock, with combat boots and smeared lipstick. But I knew I had power in drag because of the reaction I got from people.”

To be famous, you have to put in a lot of work and dedication. No one gets famous by sleeping all day, and neither did RuPaul. He started acting in low-budget films. Though it didn’t help him climb the fame ladder, he never gave up. He even started to sell pictures of himself as postcards – certainly a creative way of getting your name out there.

In the mid-1980s, he felt that he couldn’t reach his dream of becoming famous by staying in Atlanta. He decided to move to New York City, where he slept on couches or down at the Hudson Pier for months.