Carmen Carrera is a trailblazer, performing artist, actress and fashion Muze. Getting her start on RuPauls Drag Race as a drag performer before transitioning into the woman she is today, she became the first openly trans model to be signed to the prestigious modeling agency, Elite Model Management of New York City and became the first model in history to be petitioned by the public to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Since then she's been an outspoken activist for trans inclusivity and body diversity being featured in the pages of Vogue, W Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Time Magazine, and Elle Magazine to name a few.
Most recently she has started her own digital marketing agency called CC3 Entertainment which focuses on creating opportunities for LGBTQ influencers in the digital space. She continues to be an ally for women's issues and an inspirational for all of us to be who we truly are.
Sign In. Q: You recently worked with legendary photographer Steven Meisel for a W magazine spread. Do you want to do more modeling? A: Oh my God, yeah. I hope so. Q: What's your professional focus? A: I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a feeling of acceptance for people who are different and not look at them like they're freaks or whatever.
Because I knew maybe, what, a few years ago, it was like, gay people are weirdos or freaks. Then, gay people had to stand up for themselves. And then it became cool to be gay.
Q: What's the message you want to get across? A: I would love for the rest of the society to catch up to my mentality. The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male to female, if you're that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you. I hear things from people, like oh, religious things, like whatever.
But the way I see it is, this body is like my apartment that I'm living in while I'm here on earth. If I want to renovate it or change it and if it's possible to do, why not do it? Why should I be judged for it? Q: Would you do the all-stars season of 'Drag Race'? A: I would.
I definitely would. But I don't know if they would ask me. Q: Why? A: A lot of TV networks and producers, sometimes they're afraid to take a risk. I feel like some people prefer to have drama and negativity and fights over educational, empowering examples of people. It just happens sometimes. I don't know if they're ready to kind of start doing things like that.
Q: Really? A: Maybe it's easier for people to watch a boy put on makeup and do drag. It makes sense to more people than it does some who is transgender, going through a transition, doing drag. Because honestly, there's no rules to drag. You can't say in order to be a drag queen you have to live your life as a man.
That's not true. Q: RuPaul has said many times that "you're born naked and everything else is drag. I think it would defintiely be intreresting. Q: Do you keep in touch with anyone from 'Drag Race,' any of the Heathers? A: I keep in touch with Raja. I mean, I haven't seen Manila for a while.
Everyone's pretty busy. I still do my shows and stuff. But I'm really focused on functioning in a straight society, because it's new to me. I'm so curious about it.
Q: Interesting. A: Right after high school, I came out as gay. I went straight to the gay clubs. The gay scene, it's all I've ever known. So now it's totally different. Being a girl is so dofferent. Women just have a lot more things to deal with than men do.
It's not even like I walk around and I feel like people know that I'm transgender. The thing is that they don't. Q: For example? A: When I go to the airport, guys will hold my bag for me, they'll try to flirt with me. These are things that I'm not used to dealing with.
Me and my husband, we'll go to like a straight club, whatever. He loves to dance. I let him dance with all his girlfriends or whatever. She has vocally distanced herself from RuPaul and the Drag Race format. Other Queens. Drag Race Franchise. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3. Season 1. Drag Race Holland Season 1 Season 2. Season 1 Season 2. Other Series. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Carmen Carrera.
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