GLITTER FIRST, QUESTIONS LATER: WHAT A C★NT!
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Move out the way girlies, because this Diva is ready for her closeup!
Lexi Love comes to remind us to do one thing and one thing only: shine like the diamond—or rather, GLITTER BOMB— you are. Supermodelesque, Roller Derby Doll realness, and Kelly Cutrone-approved? Lexi embodies everything we loved about the iconic supermodels from the Y2K Victoria’s Secret days (pre-controversy, of course).
Sit down and talk with Lexi for only 5 minutes, and she'll swear she's the oldest queen to have ever walked the earth— um, Hello Lady Bunny!! But the tea is, she's in her prime, ready to shake things up, and is only just getting started! Lexi Love is a walking reminder that life will take you through doors you never thought were meant for you and into moments that don’t make any sense quite yet, until one day, you wake up and realize every step has brought you exactly where you're meant to be.
Zoom back to her life at 18 years young, freshly kicked out of the home by her blood family. For the first time ever, Lexi began expressing herself fully—wearing makeup, women’s clothing, and stepping into her identity, even when the world wasn’t ready for her. “I lived as a woman for an entire year with no hormones, no laser hair removal, no hair!” she laughs. “I had stubble every day, and I’d be shaving, and I’d be cut up, and I’d break out…” Her hair? A far cry from the dolled-up glam we’re used to seeing now from Love. “I had glued weave in, and it was cheap weave. It was not Yaki, it was not Remi baby… And it was about 12 inches, okay? That’s all she could afford.” She pauses, then grins: “I looked crazy. But I did it because that’s what made me happy.”
When I ask if she remembers her first time in drag, her face lights up. She takes us back to Valentine’s Day night, 15 years ago when Nomi—her drag mom—painted her face for the very first time. It was supposed to be Lexi’s big debut at the club. “We showed up to the bar and I’m ready,” she says, miming the moment. But the second the bouncer asked for ID, the fantasy ended. “You had to be 21 and I was 18, so I did not get to perform that night.” She rolls her eyes at the memory. “Do you not see me? I look so good! What do you mean?”
From that embarrassingly relatable, almost-stage debut, to finally landing on the main stage of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 after auditioning 5 times, Lexi’s story is full of moments that almost never happened, but did, because she kept on showing up and showing out. When asked if she ever thought about giving up on her dream of being on the show, she replies, “Every single time, I thought about giving up… then I’d be like, ‘Okay, I am gonna do it.’” She reflects, “I felt like it was a report card. I’d watch my tapes, and I’d be like, Cringe. I hate the way that I did that. I can do better than that.” And she did.
Despite her undeniable confidence, Lexi candidly admits that she struggled with feelings of inadequacy at times. “I was so scared when doing the show that I wasn’t gonna be enough or that my transness wasn’t enough,” she reveals. “If I can feel this way, anyone can feel this way.” Lexi's vulnerability speaks to the many trans people who might feel that their identities don't fit the mold or are somehow “not enough.” Her words highlight the universal fears many face when trying to live openly, especially under the spotlight.
Lexi Love’s story is one of resilience, chosen family, and becoming the version of yourself that younger you didn’t even know was possible. From being pushed out of the home at 18 to becoming a beacon for trans joy across the world, Lexi reminds us that the runway of life doesn’t always start with a spotlight—it starts with survival, with community, and with loads (and I mean loads) of GLITTER!!!
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AndyOmo: Hi Lexi!
Lexi Love: Hi!!
It's so nice to speak with you love! Let's start off easy by telling the audience your name, age, where you're from, and how long you've been doing drag?
My age, you wanna start like that?! I'm a grandma! No, I'm just kidding.
You're too funny!
What's my name? My real name or my stage name?
Either or, whichever you prefer!
Lexi Love is what I go by on and off the stage, honestly, in all factions of my life right now. I am 34 years old and I live in northern Kentucky.
Amazing. Now you auditioned for Drag Race five times, is that correct?
You bitch! Yes, I did. Ugh!
/Laughs/ You're too cute! What kept you coming back? Was there ever a time you thought of just giving up.
Every single time! Yeah, I thought about giving up, I'll just start there. Probably, there was like a month after the auditions that I was like, not doing it ever again. I will never do it, that was it. That was absolutely it. Then I would be like, "You guys sent an email, there's auditions." And I'd be like, "Okay, I am gonna do it." Honestly, I said this in every single one of my tapes, I felt like it was a report card. After the first year, I could go back and watch it and I was like, "Cringe, I hate the way that I did that. I hate the way I looked. I hate the way it sounded." Like, I didn't even like the audition tape. And I was like "I can do better than that." So the next year I was like, "Okay, I know how I did X, Y, Z and now I'm gonna try and A, B, C it this time instead." And it just evolved. I constantly was able to reevaluate myself, see what I did that year, be proud of myself or not proud of myself, and move on.
How long have you been doing drag in total would you say?
Ooh, I have been doing drag for 14 years- since 2010. So it's going on 15 [years] now.
Wow. Do you remember the first time that you put yourself in drag, but also the first time you put yourself in makeup?
The funny thing is, the first time that I played in makeup was at girls' birthday parties. We would have those little sticks with the little pad on it, and it would just be a shit show.
I love it! /Laughs/
It was hideous! And I was like, "I'm never gonna be able to do makeup." I still don't think I could do makeup to this day. But I played in that and got nervous with that, and that was all I ever did. When my drag mom let me start to live with her because I was homeless, she put me in drag for the first time for my first drag show, which was on Valentine's Day.
Period.
And we showed up to the bar and I'm ready. And they said. ID and you had to be 21 and I was 18, so I did not get to perform that night.
Damn, we've all been there. Showed up to the club and thought we could get in without being clocked.
I was gagged! I was like, "Do you not see me, I look so good?! What do you mean?"
Right!
Yeah. Nope.
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Diving deeper, You have said that you represent the drag queens that have a past and you're very open with your experience with homelessness and addiction. Can you share a bit about what it was like being unhoused at such a young age and how that's shaped you and your career?
Oh my gosh! It is the fabric of my entire being! It is why I think and process the way that I do now. It instilled a lot of fighter spirit in me. I think that because of this experience at such a young age, it did hinder me. It definitely did create a sense of self-doubt or a lack of self-worth that I maybe didn't have before that. So that took a long time and I'm still working on it, honestly. To feel like I'm gaining back that approval from your family or just that environment that [I was] brought up in to meet [those] expectations and just knowing that I'm never gonna meet [them] and that's okay. Creating a new expectation for myself, that's really hard. Especially for somebody that never went to school, okay? I got no therapist!
Totally. I can actually relate. I also was kicked out, when I was 15 years old, back and forth between being homeless and sleeping in my car without support. But I also feel like I wouldn't have changed it for the world. It gave me a lot of freedom and allowed me to explore who I was at a younger age.
On the show, I said the crazy thing was I would not have changed it for the world. I'd rather have no water [and] no electricity, just to feel that kind of love and support for my natural being and to allow myself to just express myself freely. So I agree with you.
A hundred percent can relate to you there. I've been watching some of your trans diaries on TikTok. First of all, it's so cool to see your journey throughout the many years at this point. How long would you say you've been transitioning even before HRT and before your own diving into the deep end of coming into yourself?
That's a good question. When I was homeless I started to live with Nomi, [and] I started to live as a woman. I lived as a woman for an entire year with no hormones, no laser hair removal, no hair! Okay, so I had glued weave in, and it was cheap weave. It was not Yaki. It was not Remi baby. It was a blend, honey. It was a rough blend and it was about 12 inches, okay, that's all she could afford. I would have stubble every day and I'd be shaving and I'd be cut up and I'd break out, and I'm wearing like a sports bra and I've got like C cup pads in it. I looked crazy. But I did it because that's what made me happy. Then when I moved back into my home life, my mom was like, "You can do drag." and I was like, "Okay, that's all I wanna do. I definitely didn't wanna be a girl. Absolutely not, thank you. Lemme go get a hot shower!" So it's something that I suppressed and then it snowballed into me hiding it down lower and lower. Eventually, it kept bottling up and I promised myself either my mom would pass away or I would get to cacoon.
Okay.
Then Covid happened and I was like, I am going to Cocoon now.
How has your family's reaction been towards coming out fully and publicly?
They don't acknowledge it's happening.
Gotcha.
They just call me [by] my old name, acting like I'm not wearing a skirt and a tank top and hoop earrings. It's hilarious. Hilarious!
I can definitely relate. I remember one time I went back home just for Thanksgiving or something and my uncle literally lifted my skirt up and was like, what's under here? And I looked at him like, you've changed my diapers, bitch. So why are you playing, get the fuck off. But no, I can relate in the sense of not necessarily having that acknowledgment, and I guess them acting or just trying to protect their own peace in whatever ways they can, if you can call it that.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's [for] their own peace of mind, right, that they're more concerned about.
You also talk a little bit about working as a money laundering detection trainer for Citi Group. Are you still doing this or is this something that you've stopped doing since the show?
I stopped probably about September of last year. I was working with them for a very long time. They let me go on a sabbatical. They're a wonderful LGBTQIA+ friendly company that really did support me all the way through. I would not be here today if it was not for the love of the people at Citibank, so that means the world to me. But they are foolish honey! I was a homeless drug addict and you want me to help you find money laundering? Okaaayyyy! Sure buddy! /Laughs/
/Laughs/ That's hilarious. Funny enough, my boyfriend works for Citi. You never really know what's happening behind closed doors. It's funny just to see how worlds can collide in that space.
Oh totally. It was so weird because a lot of the cases you would get, there are so many drug cases and court cases that are going on for drug cartels, and to me, I'm like, "Hey, look at that, how much did they get?!" That excited me because that was my life at one time, so I was like, I am the perfect person to do this! They're like, "I don't remem- what did they say that that person had?" And I said, "They said they have five kilos of this, four kilos of this.
That's so funny!
"Two grams of that." And they're like, "Wow, good job. Okay, get it!"
/Laughs/ And would you say any of those skills helped you spot a shady queen or two on the show?
You have no idea the life lessons that I learned by being business savvy with Karen, on a Tuesday- how much that helped me deal with Suzie on a Wednesday. /Laughs/
/Laughs/
It really did. On the show, there were so many times that I said to a PA or one of my sisters or to a camera guy, I was like, "the full circle moment that just happened in my life. My mind's blown!"
That's too funny I love it. I think all the girls' styles this season were very different overall.
Oh yeah!
It's fun to see your own range in style. Where would you say that you get your style inspiration from? Do any specific people come to mind or would you say maybe an era in time?
My style is inspired by the outrageous photo shoots of America's Next Top Model and the gorgeous sexy runways of Victoria's Secret before they got canceled- when they were horrible to women! I want to be the epitome of that because it's the ideology of fulfilling every man's horrible, lusty fantasy. It's really just tickles my pickle really. It tickles my pickle.
You're like, "Gimme my three almonds. I'm ready to eat."
"Yeah," /Fingers hair behind ear/ "And I'll keep two for later."
/Both laugh/ I love it. Talking about your style, what look from this season that's aired so far has been your absolute favorite and the one that's made you feel the most authentically you.
Authentically me... my entrance look is authentically me. Every other one, I'm trying to fulfill a runway and fulfill a brief. The entrance, that's me and again, Victoria's Secret, going back to it like, this is my brand. This is what I love, this is what I wanna see,
Love it. I think a lot of people talk about how much it costs to come onto RuPaul's Drag Race, especially the first time around without any kind of sponsorships or without any kind of backing. What kind of impact did that have and have you been booked and busy as a result?
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I do wanna try and end that stigma a little bit because you don't have to spend that money. You really don't. There were people on my season that spent $4,000-
Love that.
And they did great! They had great runways, and they got compliments constantly. And I'm not dropping that number to shade anybody, I was impressed! I [spent more] because the runways were what I was gunning for. I wasn't gunning for Snatch Game. I wasn't gunning for [the] talent show- even though I got it-
Period.
I wasn't gunning for any of these main maxi challenges. I was gunning to shock in all the runways because that's what I wanna do with my life. I want to be on a runway. I just did that because that's what my soul needed to be happy. These other girls can spend money on other things. It's really in the presentation. It's really in how you are selling this. And I think a lot of the girls figured that out as time went by.
I think it's true. I think a lot of the girls, you can see that it wasn't even what they were wearing, but how they were wearing it. And I think that kind of translates into real life as well.
Yes. You are absolutely right. My love.
Talking a little bit about that talent show, Kentucky's Roller Derby Doll, how long have you been into skating? Is that something you grew up with or what's your worst or maybe best wipe-out story that you can remember?
Oh my God, that's funny. Roller skating I've been doing since middle school, we used to get locked in the roller rink. Our parents would take us there and they would just leave us until 5:00 AM. You had to sign a waiver and it was the coolest thing in my life. It happened once a month and I would always do it. I could do flips on skates, so I don't have a wipeout story on skates, I really don't. I did have a really bad bike wreck though when I was 12 and I had just bought a red icy-
Yum! /Laughs/
And this tells you how your mind works when you're young because I wrecked that bike and that red icy went all over my white shirt. I thought that my entire body had ripped off. I thought I was skinless under that shirt or something.
Crazy!
So I'm very glad that I never wrecked on my skates because I am a little bit of an overreactor.
Yeah, I've been in plenty of bad bike accidents myself. All my friends can tell you, wheels are not for me!
Okay! Big wheels, no. Little wheels, yes.
Period. You ate on the stage!
Thank you!
I think all your fears that you were communicating with the other queens and in your confessionals, had me thinking like, "Okay, she's gonna eat shit. She's gonna eat shit."
Right!
And you didn’t!
The thing was between me and you, the day before I got to just test the wheels on the floor, but it had a film on it. And I got so nervous, I was like, " Oh no, I can't do this." it needed to stay protected so it didn't get all smudged up. But production was so kind, they went and got additional boards [and] set them up on the side. Got everything set up correctly, stayed late peeled the things off, and made sure that I was safe. So at the very end of the night, that night, I was like, "Okay, I might be able to do this tomorrow. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sure. I just gotta land the cartwheel." I was like," If I don't land this cartwheel, it's over because I don't get a second try. It's one take."
And not only the Cartwheel but was it four splits? Five splits? Damn!
I lost count! I just kept going!
Literally, I was just like, "Oh my God, who is this bitch? Legs for days, first of all, but not to mention the talent!
Oh, thank you.
What was it like to win the very first challenge? Did that set the tone for you going forward in the competition?
Yes! That's why I was so pissed I wasn't winning! Okay! I thought I was like, oh no, I need to stay here. I'm here already. And I started falling back in the pack and I was like, oh I'm nervous right now. Did you not see my face this week? I was ready to ring [Jewels'] neck!
I know that that was so funny! /Laughs/ You're face during the Betsey Johnson challenge. It said it all! I honestly thought you had it in the bag. What was going through your head up there on the stage?
Apparently the wrong thought honey!! /Laughs/ I get it, Jewels did amazing. She really did. It was Betsy, I can't knock that. I think she cheated. I personally think she cheated. I've actually reported the robbery and theft that happened on national television to the LAPD. They haven't gotten back to me though. It's so weird.
/Laughs/ Let's get on this y'all!
Please! Hopefully, we can get her account shut down and she can't do this to anyone else in the future!
No, for real. I think that what you said was right, Jewels’ epitomized Betsy Johnson to the fullest and I love that.
Yeah.
I think that all the top looks this last week were fucking hot, so I love to see it!
I agree. It felt good. That felt so good. If I could have had that [feeling] every week, I would've been like, mama's happy. Mama's happy.
I'm such a fashion girly, so I like seeing this recreation of the Julia Fox moment with the original designer Wiederhoeft.
Yes!
Love Jackson, love Wiederhoeft, love Julia. It's just really cool to see how fashion comes in parallel with drag consistently, I love it. Talking about another look, watching spray paint gate back on tv, did it bring back any of those same emotions or was it just fucking Ki? Was it just a good laugh?
Oh my God, no the entire time I was watching it like this. /Hides face behind hands/
That's so funny! / Laughs/
I was just so scared to see it. And once it was over I was like, "Okay. I don't hate me. And I think that it makes sense." I don't know, I was worried, who knows how that could've come across, I was very heated at the moment. I did a lot of yelling. I'm not innocent. But it was such a relief and actually by the time we were done me and I were calling each other like " bitch, look at us. We are crazy!" it was fun to see, like now I'm just laughing at myself on tv.
Great TV! And it's good to be able to laugh at yourself over things that maybe we were emotional about.
You have to.
For sure.
Or you're going to live a very tough life with a stick up your booty.
And not the good kind!
No honey, it's stiff girl.
/Laughs/ You're not shy about sharing your emotions and experiences.
/Laughs/
Have you always been this open? Or is this something transitioning or drag has helped you get in tune with?
Sobriety. That's what helped me, when I got clean off of party drugs, and I got my life together. There was a lot of owning it. I think my status too, like I was very open when I needed to be about my status. I'm open about it in all factions of my life. But it wasn't always like that. There was an instance where I was outed to my community at a very young age. And it forced everyone to turn against me because it wasn't cool. It wasn't hip. There wasn't prep then. People were just like, "Ew, you're foul." I was forced into being comfortable with it. So instead of just being shamed by it or letting it affect me in a negative way, I tried to turn it into a positive. When people would bring it up, I would be just so proactive and adamant about it that people would end up taking something from the conversation other than my pride.
Totally. I know you've been very open about your HIV-positive status, and I think that's, as you said, wasn't a choice, but you've done a really good job at turning that narrative and saying, okay, this is what you bitches need to know. For people who may be experiencing this for the first time in their lives now, what's one thing you'd want them to know? And maybe even the opposite side, for those who might not understand or need to be educated on the topic, what do you wish they knew too?
The people that need to be educated, I have nothing to say to them because they [ should] already know and the fact that they haven't means that there's something wrong there. The people that are finding out for the first time, I've said this a bunch. I love you. I'm sorry. It's not your fault and honestly, it's not that big of a deal these days. It is a big deal if you don't take care of it, but this can be something so passe to you that you don't even think about it. Everybody's on prep these days. Most likely your boyfriend's gonna be taking the same pills as you, and you guys are gonna be better off having sex with each other because now you know everybody's statuses and everybody's t-cell counts, that they're healthy. Shoot, I might rather know somebody or hook up with somebody like that just 'cause I can trust them, in all reality.
Totally. That open communication is real. I feel it. Talking a little bit about your sobriety, what is your relationship with drugs and alcohol now? Do you not drink at all? Do you smoke weed at all?
Honey, baby, I did not say that I wasn't trying to live life anymore. Oh my God, I would absolutely just hate everything. No, I took back control of being a functioning part of society. And I think that is the most important part of being an adult. If you can do the things that need to be done and contribute to a positive life and move the world forward. If you have a drink at the end of the night, hell, if you have five drinks at the end of the night, or you do a little x, y, z? Fantastic, I'll see you on Monday! That I don't pass judgment on, there's a lot worse, horrible things in this world that are happening and decisions that people are making, than letting go with a little recreational fun.
Totally. I think as long as you're being safe and you're moderating yourself for yourself, then it should be totally fine.
Along with everything else in life. Food, caffeine, anything!
Definitely. Talking a little bit more about that, who would be in your dream blunt rotation? Alive or unalive?
My dream blunt rotation is Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg. I will be in that rotation. I just want the three of us, I don't want nobody else to be there. I don't need nobody else's input. I don't wanna hear 'em!
They got the good stuff!
yes! I want Martha to be cooking and Snoop to be rolling and rapping, and I'll just be sitting there with my tits out, vibing. It's a whole mood!
/Laughs/ I can visualize it. Moving onto a question I have had during this season; I have noticed a whole lot of body glitter, like so much body glitter. Where did this come from and are you in on the whole glitter explosion moment?
Of course my love! First of all, my favorite color is glitter.
That's my boyfriend's favorite color too! /Laughs/
So yeah, I'm in love with him already. Yeah, no, the ooh ah, glitter sensation was felt this year because a lot of just these young queens. One of the things that a lot of the queens that I know nowadays, we like to buy those glitter hairspray cans from Halloween stores. I will buy packs of them. Like 40 cans at a time.
Oh my God.
They're like $2 a can! I'll just buy them out completely outright. Or like you'll wait until the day after Halloween and whatever they have left is 50% off. Bitch, I just cleared the entire shelf and I have body glitter spray for the entire year and I showed up probably with 10 cans of body glitter spray. Crystal Envy was the other one that was like right there with me. She had a lot of it, honey. I was like okay, diva!
That's funny.
And you know what? You wanna know a secret?
Yeah!
At one time they had to go and get us more body glitter. We were all like, what? It was crazy.
Oh my God. Are you finding it everywhere? It's gotta be all over your makeup bags and everything, huh? /Laughs/
Duh. What? What was, is that a problem? I don't understand.
/Laughs/ More so one of those things where it's oh my God, I can't even go to sleep without it being on the inside of your eyelids. Huh?
You're not supposed to live like that? What's happening?
She says that's what she's doing bumps up these days.
That's not normal?
No, I love it.
Yeah, no, it is. It's definitely, it's funny, there's plenty of people in my life that hate glitter and they're like, what is that? And I'm like, this is glitter from something somewhere.
Something somewhere is wild! /Laughs/ What are three things we'll always find in your purses?
Oh, we can't talk about that.
/Both laugh/
No, I'm just kidding. Blistex Chapstick. The medicated one.
Okay.
My green vape, that you iconically see me on TV with
Period.
And my passport, and that's because that's all that'll fit in my purse.
Right! And if you don't mind me asking, with everything going on in the world right now with passports does your passports state female.
Nope. Sure don't.
Yeah.
Nothing of mine does I still have mail on everything. Kentucky, I can't get my ID to be switched unless I have a doctor say that I'm post-op. It's gonna be this way, I feel like for a long time for me. I still have my original name, I feel like it's androgynous, Cody. They asked me about showing my LinkedIn profile on the show, and I was like, absolutely. I have nothing to hide. I really don't. And I just am embracing life as me as this person. Hunter, Schafer kept their name. It sounds like Colin Jones, kept their name. Cody Barnes, like my middle name's James. I might just go by Cody James. That sounds like a porn star.
It does sound like a porn star. We definitely have seen him take it up the ass before.
Okay.
I love that. I think just I worked with a lot of trans people in general, and I've heard kind of all sides of that story when it comes to gender marks and it comes to as. Experiences specifically in gendered bathrooms-
Hunter, she just had to change her passport, yeah!
Yeah, exactly. And it's crazy watching it on TV, but also someone I know made a live reaction video of him getting his passport back last year, and it was so emotional. He had an "F" on his new passport and it was just so hard to watch the crackdown even in the infancy of this current administration. I'm also someone who doesn't have my gender changed on my forms, not because I didn't want it, but more so because my partner is and I like to travel and he was just worried about putting a target on my back in certain parts of the world. And I got really upset about his kind of view with that for a long time. But at the same time, I know who I am. That's really all that matters to me.
That's how I look at it. And just, and that, that gender marker has never mattered to what I think about myself. And it is not gonna matter now. That's not gonna change.
You did get visibly emotional when meeting Hunter as a guest judge. Can you walk me through what was going through your mind at that moment?
I don't think there was, my mind was just going /Screams silently/
/Narrates/ screams in high pitch.
It was just so amazing. It was like meeting one of the apostles in heaven. I know that I'm not religious at all. I believe in the universe. But it's, it was like that type of surreal moment. I thought I was in a room of clouds. She floated outta the ceiling with RuPaul. Like it was, I just, it was surreal. It was just a blessing I never thought I'd have.
Aww, I love that. One thing I like to do with all my interviews is something called This or That, which is just a few rapid-fire questions. I'm gonna ask you two different options and you just tell me what you think of as your first automatic answer. It'll be really fast. Starting off easy, what's your preferred go-to, a tube top and miniskirt or floor-length gown?
Tube Top and Mini Skirt.
I think we shoulda knew that. /Laughs/ Are you gonna sew it yourself or hire someone to make it for you.
Hire somebody!
Right?
Couture.
Period. Stiletto nails or square tips?
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What the fuck? Stiletto house down, boots, McGee!
Period. Are you a mini purse or a big bag girlie?
A mini Louis.
Purr, okay. Rocking the high pony with a side bang or wigs stacked to the gods.
High pony and a side bang.
I do love me a high pony and a side bang.
Hello?
Glitter or sequin? I feel like we know this one now too.
Sequins.
Oh?!
I'm just kidding! Glitter!!
/ Laughs/ Bold lip or bright colored eyes.
Bold lip.
Seductive! Okay, A night out with the dolls or staying in with-
Night out with the dolls!
/Both laugh/
You can't even finish it. Night out with the dolls.
Love it! And last one cheek highlight or a nose highlight. What do you think?
Combo!
Period. Alright, the last two questions are just a little bit more serious. So many trans people are watching you some who may not feel safe or comfortable coming out yet, do you have any words of advice for them?
I can only imagine what your specific situation has been like. So I just wanna let you know that your story and your experience is valid and there is someone out there that is just waiting to hear it. There's someone out there that's waiting to be motivated by you, and that is like one of the most beautiful parts of our community. I'm being blessed with that right now, and I never thought in a million years that I would be that be able to be this for our community. I was so scared when doing the show that I wasn't gonna be enough or that my transness wasn't enough. So if I can feel this way. Anyone can feel this way.
I love that. Seriously, every single person's transition is very different, and whether it come from a place of not being safe in spaces to express that or being completely open from the second they pop out of a puss.
Hello!
Either way, the journeys are completely valid and it's really amazing and inspiring just to see someone so open as yourself.
Thank you.
Of course. And last one what's next for Lexi Love? Aside from the RuPaul Drag Race world, what are some things that dream projects or things you wanna do with you and everything that you have now?
My goal in life is to chase the dreams that I wanted before my life fell apart. I would like to walk in fashion week. I would like to be the face of a major campaign, and I would like to win an Oscar. Honest to God, I hate saying this now because I'm so embarrassed by it and it's so dorky, but I want to win an Oscar.
You gotta manifest. I love that. This was your first fashion week, was it?
It was.
That's so exciting. You looked so good. You could never tell that this was your first.
My stylist, Sébastian Hohl, is a stylist of the stars, and I don't know how I got so lucky. He's from Paris and his connections, got me into that beautiful Avallano dress, darling. And it just, it fit like a glove, honey. I don't know what happened, baby.
It did. It looks so.
I got lucky.
Fashion is one of those tools that you can really just have a lot of fun with and it should be a space where it's so exploratory and it should be something that's truly just pushing the boundaries of what the rules say they can be. I loved the look. To be invited to a Kelly Catone event also is pretty freaking iconic for the babes that grew up with ANTM.
Okay! That's what I'm saying!!!!
No, I remember literally afterward, 'cause I edited a writeup for a story on the show for [A Worldwide] Magazine, and just her sending me back an email at two in the morning, "Loved the article. Appreciate your support!", I'm just there like, Kelly Cutrone just wrote me a fucking email!"
Yeah, I have a 20-second video of her just like holding me, embracing me, backstage. She was like, I'm your fashion week mom now. I was like, "Kelly's my fashion week mom."
Love that.
So you'll see me with Kelly Catone at Fashion Week in the fall, darling.
I'm looking forward to it.
You can what runway I'm on.
Oh, period. I so look forward to seeing you again on the streets.
Okay!
We can't wait to see how the rest of unfolds and what's next for Lexi Love! For all to watch and to witness!
Thank you, my love.
Of course.
I really appreciate it. I can't wait to go and have a drink.
Yes. I'd love to. Seriously, I am super appreciative of your time. I can't wait for this to come out. Amazing. I love how much fun this was.
Thank you, love. This means a lot to me.
Absolutely. Bye, love!
Bye! Thank you, Andy.
