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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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(#2) RuPaul Is 6'4" And Wears A Size 13 Shoe
RuPaul is a slim, tall person, but as a drag queen, she towers over the other queens, coming in at 6'4" before heels. And those heels are no joke – she wears a men's size 13.
Ru once told Rolling Stone: “I haven’t found a heel that’s been too high for me yet. The highest I’ve found are eight inches. Now if you have pumps that are closed, that can be painful. But if you have open-toed shoes, it’s no problem.” Just for reference, Ru would be an even 7' tall in 8" heels...
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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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(#4) Ru Regrets Recording An Album Called Sex Freak
In 1985, RuPaul recorded an album for Funtone called Sex Freak. Years later in an interview, he revealed that he regretted the title. He said it was “meant to say that I am a sexual oddity, an androgyne. People saw it as... I'm a... freak for sex."
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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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(#6) RuPaul's Big Break Was Dancing In The "Love Shack" Music Video
1989 was a weird year. The B-52s released their smash hit "Love Shack," which featured none other than RuPaul as a dancing extra. The video was wildly popular and helped launch Ru's rise to stardom.
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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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(#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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(#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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(#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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(#12) Drag Race Is So Huge, Ru Got Asked To Ring the Bell On Wall Street
On February 24, 2014, RuPaul was chosen to ring the closing bell for NASDAQ on Wall Street. Granted, it was a promotional event for the season premier of Drag Race, and she was representing Logo TV, the parent company of Viacom, but that's still a testament to Ru's business prowess.
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(#13) RuPaul Was Kicked Out Of High School
According to his biography, RuPaul was kicked out of Patrick Henry High School in 11th grade due to chronic truancy. Although he would go on to attend the Northside School of Performing Arts near Atlanta, GA, Ru wouldn't graduate from there either. No one ever said being fabulous is easy...
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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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(#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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