Kameron Michaels

At 38 years old, Kameron Michaels has this physical status:

Dane Young (born July 23, 1986), an American drag artist best known for competing on RuPaul's Drag Race's tenth season, is Kameron Michaels.

She identifies herself as a muscle queen, implying that her appearance emphasizes a strong, muscular body.

Barbie is her trademark for her body, and she is also known as "The Bodybuilder Barbie" because of her figure.

Kameron Michaels was named one of the top 100 Most Influential Drag Queens in America in June 2019.

"Freedom" was her debut single and music video in the same month.

Early life

Young was born on July 23, 1986, his parents' first child. They lived in Massillon, Ohio, until he was five years old. They briefly lived in Michigan before heading to Columbia, Tennessee, where Young spent the majority of his youth. He found out he was gay in his early teens and mothered his mother at age 14. She responded enthusiastically. He was mocked for his sexuality and body language in high school, and he showed introverted tendencies as a result. He used photographs and videos of himself to find imposable gestures that he later learned to modify or avoid.

Young began heading to Nashville on weekends, and he started serving as a go-goo dancer and cocktail server on the local scene. It was there that he first came into contact with drag queens and then began to perform in drag. He moved to Nashville when he was 21 because he felt more at home in Nashville's queer community than in Columbia's conservative environment.

Personal life

Young is openly gay. He began going to the gym with a boyfriend who had to stop doing drag. Since breaking up, he continued to concentrate on muscle building and returning to drag racing, where his body attracted retaliation from others in the industry. His exercise routine briefly fell by the wayside in the months after his debut in Drag Race season ten, as he returned to life on tour. When filming RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue, young dated Vanessa Vaye Mateo for a brief period.

Young's arms and legs, as well as his chest, neck, and left leg have bear tattoos that are apparent when he is both in and out of drag. "I started getting tattooed when I was around 26 or 27 years old," he said in an interview. All my tattoos are by the same artist, and they were all done in about a year and a half. "They depict] some of my childhood's favorite movies from my childhood and sentimental stuff in my life." His left arm has pictures from Jurassic Park and Aliens, as well as a scarab beetle across his chest. "I got that when I started working out and going to the gym," he said, because the terror resembles a certain rebirth. "I was supposed to be and doing things for myself, but it was also taking time for myself."

Young deleted a lot of the content from his Kameron Michaels pages on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, coincidentally on the day that RuPaul did the same; Drag Race fans and followers rejoiced in uncertainty and skepticism. Younger later claimed that he had taken the posts amid a period of mental instability, which he traced to a prolonged absence from home alone due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to continued George Floyd demonstrations. Some of the text was restored later.

Young claimed on social media that he had suffered a severe bout of depression in November 2020, stating:

Young lived in Los Angeles as of June 2021. Lilo, the French Bulldog, purchased a house in Las Vegas and accompanied him for the following month.

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Career

A more experienced performer designed his costumes at the start of Young's drag career, but he taught himself how to use makeup. Arianna St. Claire was the first drag name he took. After a few months, he changed the name to Kameron Michaels because he wanted an androgynous first name matched with a last name used by no other drag queen in Nashville.

Young's aesthetic was inspired by cinema and video games, and he characterized his drag style as hyperfeminine. He attributes the Southern variety of drag he acquired in Nashville with his overall well-rounded, saying that it provided him with various skills such as dancing and costume-making. He became a muscle queen because of his built physique in his mid-20s after beginning a gym habit in his mid-20s. Young spent most of his time as a hair stylist, doing drag only on weekends before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race. He appeared at Play Dance Bar in Nashville on a weekly basis.

Michaels auditioned for the seventh season of Drag Race in 2014, but she did not get a callback. She then auditioned for the tenth season in an attempt to recover from a difficult breakup. She emphasized on her audition tape that she was a muscular queen and that she was a character the show had never seen before. She was chosen to participate in 2018, and her season aired in 2018. She finished as a runner-up, as well as Euka O'Hara, behind champion Aquaria.

Michaels was slammed by some television publications and fellow contestants as the season's lip sync; no other contestant has survived more than three lip syncs; she lip-synced for her life four times in a row without being sent home. She also won the premiere's first Lip Sync for the Crown, but she lost her second one to Aquaria, bringing her lip sync total to six. On the show, she was praised for her introversion, which distinguished her from her competitors. Michaels learned about ambiversion after she was mocked on social media for appearing more extroverted on social media than in person. She has said that this description fits her well.

Michaels appeared in August 2021 on the ninth episode of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' sixth season. Ra'Jah O'Hara, the week's top competitor, was declared the champion after appearing as the episode's Lip Sync Assassin.

Michaels and the other top four contestants wrote and recorded their own verses for RuPaul's song "American." According to Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart, the album debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart. Michaels appeared in the tens Across the Board Tour in summer 2018, touring around the United States with other queens from the season. "Let It Snow" was released on Christmas Queens 4, a compilation album of Christmas songs performed by former Drag Race contestants later this year. Following the album's release, she embarked on the Christmas Queens tour of Europe in November and December 2018. In January 2019, she returned to Europe for a solo tour. She released a lip sync music video in which she performs Mark Ronson's "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" the following month. She debuted "Freedom" and its accompanying music video in June of this year.

Michaels has been on tour around the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe since the second half of 2018, and she appears in a docuseries about the tour. Michaels has been a staple of RuPaul's Drag Race Live!, a residency show in Las Vegas, since January 2020. For the bulk of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was on hold, but Michaels was still on the cast when it returned in August 2021. She also stars in RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue, a VH1 miniseries about the live broadcast. Michaels appeared on a livestreamed version of Werq the World in May 2020 to raise funds for drag entertainers out of work due to the pandemic. Michaels has been on tour with Drive 'N Drag, a drive-in drag show that was held outdoors to accommodate social distancing limits imposed due to COVID-19.

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