PS: How was it a healing process for you?
F: As a ballerina, I was always told to make my body smaller or more perfect. One time at Trannyshack, I was in a number with Juanita Moore. Glamamore was measuring me for my outfit and said, "Oh, I'm in love with your proportions!" If a ballet teacher had said that to me, I would've been a lot happier as a teen. Those kinds of comments were so self-affirming. They were healing. Trannyshack was a space where all shapes, sizes, and colors were accepted. Hopefully a lot of people are listening to RuPaul's number one message on Drag Race: "If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?" That's a lesson we all need to learn.
