Pre-’Supermodel’, RuPaul moved from the clubs of Atlanta to become a nightlife fixture in New York, performing music, working as a go-go dancer and ultimately ending up a celebrity thanks to a move into a more glamorous drag look.
RuPaul told Interview Magazine in 2013: “I’d been a downtown New York celebrity and was attempting to go above ground - really, above 14th Street — or more mainstream. So got a record deal and changed my image to be not so downtown. wanted to look more glamazon”