Random Weird Facts Most People Don't Know About RuPaul (16 items)

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  (#15) RuPaul Was Obsessed With Drag Racing As A Kid

  According to an interview with US Weekly in 2012, RuPaul was once into a different kind of drag. He said that, "[as] a kid, I was obsessed with hot rods, Cadillacs, and drag racing." That actually explains a lot...
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  (#10) RuPaul Is The Queen Of Manhattan

  In 1989, RuPaul was voted the “Queen of Manhattan” by the downtown club glitterati after gaining some notoriety working the club scene for years. She once told Rolling Stone that it was "a great social commentary, and people responded to me in drag like I never experienced before."
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  (#11) RuPaul Was A MAC Cosmetics Spokesperson

  In 1996, Ru became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics and helped raise money for the VIVA GLAM Mac AIDS Fund. This feat made Ru the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign. You go girl! 
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  (#1) Ru Is Named After Gumbo

  RuPaul tells a lot of amazing stories about her mother. In a 2013 interview with US Weekly, Ru said that her Louisiana-born mother Ernestine "Toni" Charles came up with the "Ru" half of RuPaul "from roux, which is the term for the base of gumbo and other [Creole] stews and soups."
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  (#7) RuPaul Is Married To An Australian Rancher In Wyoming

  RuPaul has been with Australian-born Georges LeBar since 1994. They met at the Limelight nightclub in New York City shortly after RuPaul's career started taking off. Today, LeBar runs a 60,000-acre ranch in Wyoming.
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  (#14) RuPaul Sleeps With A Stuffed Donkey Named Jimmy

  Yup. RuPaul sleeps with a stuffed donkey named Jimmy. And when he can’t sleep, he listens to the audiobook of Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now in order to absorb its message in his sleep.

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