Upon joining the show, she became “the first Korean drag queen to be featured on American national television” and her mother didn’t know she did drag until the series aired on March 7th, 2016. Kim Chi competed with eleven other queens on season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race. ![]() According to Trixie, they shared makeup, and were also romantically involved– but are still good friends. She still did drag, though it wasn’t her main career, and her inspiration was performance artist Leigh Bowery.īefore Drag Race, she knew Trixie Mattel and helped her book one of her first gigs in Chicago, as Trixie had trouble finding work in her native Milwaukee. She studied graphic design, as well as sculpture, fashion design, and painting, before working as an art director. Although her original drag name was completely different, it became “Kim Chi” after the Korean pickled cabbage dish. As she grew older, she began dressing in drag for Halloween. Good taste!) When she was little, she would dress up in her mother’s clothes. (Around this time, she also said that she had a crush on Fred from the Scooby-Doo cartoon. In Michigan, she was known as “Eric Shin”– after Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, her favorite movie at the time. She spent her childhood in South Korea before moving to a small town in Michigan. Kim Chi was born Sang-Young Shin on August 8th, 1987 (Leo) in Chicago, Illinois to Korean parents. She’s also one of my personal favorites– I follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and she’s hilarious! Known for her bold, over-the-top makeup, shady Tweets (fans call her “Shade Chi” on occasion) and self-depreciating humor, she definitely knows how to make an impression. With 1.9 million Instagram followers, a WOWIE Award-nominated makeup line, and a coveted spot in the Werq the World tour, she’s one of the franchise’s superstars. Kim Chi is one of the most popular RuPaul’s Drag Race queens of all time. It became “Sad Music Sunday” but I just listened to a slow violin version of “The Thong Song.” (Just kidding!) I was about to swear off attraction for good, then…I started my period! (Of course….)īut I also made sure to thoroughly edit this post– which I started a week ago. An old Turkish proverb says, “A man without a belly is like a house without a balcony.” But am I wrong…? This is the spiral of stupidity I found myself in.) I usually don’t care what others “might” think of the men I like, so such a thought was as out-of-place as a laser-pointer at a funeral, gum stuck to a gravestone, sky burial via shooting the deceased from a cannonball, ashes in a Shrek shampoo bottle, etc. Does anything really go? Is it considered “problematic” these days? Would I be “cancelled” for liking a husky man? I know they were considered handsome at some point in history. Societally, I don’t know what’s considered right or wrong. ![]() (I prefer men who are bigger– or at least have a potbelly. Yesterday I nearly burst into tears because I was paranoid that some men I liked did something bad, (Gregory Peck, James Garner, and Simon Oakland…I saw a thread on how terrible Old Hollywood men were, and I worried that they had dark secrets.) and I was also worried that I was gonna get roasted (I don’t know how– I’m pretty quiet) for the type of men I am attracted to. (Note: I will be using female pronouns for ease, going in and out of Kim Chi’s drag persona.) I celebrate all things cute, fun, weird, and exotic.” –Kim Chi on her drag persona “Kim Chi is a live-action anime character whose fashion aesthetic could be described as ‘bionic doily.’ I imagine my aura to be an array of ultraviolet colors that spews glitter.
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