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

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  (#8) RuPaul Gets His Trucker's Tongue From His Mother

  Ru’s parents divorced in 1967, so he grew up with his mother, and she was awesome. Her name was Toni Charles, but the neighborhood kids called her “Mean Miss Charles.” She smoked Tarryton's every day, and her favorite phrase was “you p*ssy-mouthed motherf*cker." Apparently, that's where Ru gets her filthy, filthy mouth from...
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  (#16) Ru Started Working On Her Superstardom At Age 5

  Ru has always known she was special. She once told Contemporary Black Biography “[at] five-years-old [sic], I realized I was a superstar trapped in a five-year-old’s body. And I had to do something about that!” 

  Years later, in an interview with Spin, she said “[even] then I knew I had a different perspective on the world. I was not doing the same things other kids were doing, and I was looking at things as an observer, as an outsider, like an alien.” 
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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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  (#9) RuPaul Won Best Afro In Junior High

  Ru once told the The Frisky that, back in the day at Gompers Junior High School, he won both “Best Afro” and “Best Dancer." So, RuPaul was basically young Michael Jackson if he did drag instead...
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  (#3) RuPaul Was In a Punk Band Called Wee Wee Pole

  In the '80s, RuPaul was a struggling musician and filmmaker. According to a story published by The Bitter Southerner, "in Atlanta, RuPaul often performed at the Celebrity Club as a bar dancer or with his band, Wee Wee Pole." Ru also performed as a backup singer for Glen Meadmore with fellow queen bee Vaginal Davis.
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  (#5) RuPaul Had A Cameo On Walker, Texas Ranger

  RuPaul once had a cameo on Walker, Texas Ranger. No, seriously, check it out: Season 7, Episode 3, "Royal Heist." She played a dude named Bob, and the whole episode is about gangs.

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