RuPaul’s Suggestions for Coping with Haters: Ditch Them and Transfer On

RuPaul is the undisputed queen of self-confidence — and he shares his suggestions for studying how you can love your self within the new subject of Us Weekly.

“Every time I am going on stage I say to myself, ‘Ru, you’re going into Mama’s lounge,’” the RuPaul’s Drag Race host, 62, completely tells Us. “I used to carry out for my mother and that’s what helps me overcome nerves about something, together with what individuals might have mentioned about me. What different individuals say about me is none of my enterprise!”

The Emmy winner is arguably essentially the most well-known drag queen on this planet now, however that wasn’t at all times the case. The Guru writer bought his begin as a go-go dancer within the Nineties, acting at New York Metropolis venues just like the Pyramid Membership.

“It was a spot the place all of the weirdos may get collectively and be impressed,” the California native — whose full identify is RuPaul Charles — recalled whereas talking to Us on the 2018 TIME 100 Gala. “I’d sleep at Chelsea Piers as a result of I didn’t have a steady house and saved all my belongings within the basement on the Pyramid.”

Since these early days, the AJ and Queen alum has change into a grasp of studying how you can push via the powerful occasions.

“Life is hard, there’s no method round that, however you possibly can arm your self with data,” RuPaul advised Us when requested what recommendation he’d give his youthful self. “And to hell with what anybody thinks — you must do issues since you need to and never depend on anybody else for validation.”

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Since RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered in 2009, the present has spawned a number of spinoffs, together with RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars and RuPaul’s Secret Superstar Drag Race, plus quite a few worldwide editions in Belgium, Thailand, Sweden, Spain, Canada, the UK and extra.

Whereas some observers could also be stunned by Drag Race‘s international dominance, Ru shouldn’t be — neither is he shocked by his personal success. “I at all times noticed myself as a star and I at all times imagined myself having my very own present,” he advised Us, including that he’s “so blissful” the sequence is such a phenomenon.

“Drag has developed quite a bit within the final 10 to twenty years,” the media mogul defined. “Drag is far more accessible, which is a phenomenal factor. Bear in mind, we’re all born bare — and the remainder is drag.”

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