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Carmen Carrera Biography
Carmen Carrera born as Carmen Ramon is an American reality television personality, model, burlesque performer, and actress. She is More popular for appearing on the third season of the Logo reality television series RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well as its spin-off series RuPaul’s Drag U. Carrera is a transgender woman.
She started her career as a showgirl and rose to prominence as a contestant on the third season of Logo TV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race’. Even though she was eliminated in episode 10, Carmen was brought back in episode 12, only to be eliminated again in the same episode.
Carmen Carrera Age
She was born on April 13, 1985 in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. She is 38 years old as of 2023.
Carmen Carrera Family
Carmen was born in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. She was originally born as male but she immediately underwent gender reassigmnet surgery to transition into a woman. The information about her family is not yet known to the media.
Carmen Carrera Career
Carmen began her career in 2011 as a show girl in the third season of the reality television competition show, RuPaul’s Drag Race. She is the second contestant in the history of the show to be brought back to the cast after being eliminated, and along with Raja, Manila Luzon, and Delta Work, was part of the clique known as “Heathers”, which took its name from the 1988 film, Heathers. Carrera was eliminated for her perfomance in episode 10, “RuPaul-a-Palooza”, while lip-synching to a reggae-inspired cover of RuPaul’s song “Superstar.”
Although she was eliminated in episode 10 Judges Michelle Visage, Santino Rice, and Billy Brasfield voted to re-invite Carrera to the competition in episode 12, “Jocks in Frocks.” Later, Carrera was eliminated in that episode after styling a muscular male athlete in her own signature “nude”-style of drag.
She was featured in W featured series of fictional products as the face for the fictional fragrance La Femme. Carrera, along with third season Drag Race contestants Manila Luzon and Shangela Laquifa Wadley in 2011, appeared in a television commercial for the travel-related website Orbitz.
Carrera in AIDS awareness and activism she has been active. After she was featured in a Gilead Sciences ad titled “Red Ribbon Runway” with fellow Drag Race co-stars Manila Luzon, Delta Work, Shangela Laquifa Wadley, and Alexis Mateo, the dress she wore was auctioned by Logo in commemoration of World AIDS Day. Proceeds from the auction were donated to the National Association of People with AIDS.
Carrera appeared in two episodes of the second season of RuPaul’s Drag U as a “drag professor”. Carrera gave singer Stace Q a confidence-boosting makeover in the episode “80s Ladies”. She appeared in recording artist Lovari’s music video Take My Pain Away.
Carrera portrayed the role of a transgender server working in a New Jersey diner in an episode of the ABC news program Primetime: What Would You Do? that aired on May 4, 2012. An actor playing a customer berates Carrera’s character regarding his past experience of being served by her when she had presented as male, pushing other customers to come to Carrera’s defense. This program also marked the first occasion in which Carrera publicly revealed herself to be transgender.
Carrera on June 11, 2012 she appeared in an episode of the TLC series Cake Boss, “Bar Mitzvah, Beads & Oh Baby!”, in which she unknowingly participated in a prank involving “Cousin Anthony” Bellifemine, the cousin of “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro, who was set up with a date with Carrera. The punchline of the joke had Valastro tell Bellifemine that “… that’s a man, baby!” However, Carrera originally agreed to appear on the program to promote equality for the transgender community, not aware that she would be involved in a joke. Following the airing of the program, Carrera complained about the situation on Facebook:
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Carrera portrayed the role of a transgender server working in a New Jersey diner in an episode of the ABC news program Primetime: What Would You Do? that aired on May 4, 2012. An actor playing a customer berates Carrera’s character regarding his past experience of being served by her when she had presented as male, pushing other customers to come to Carrera’s defense. This program also marked the first occasion in which Carrera publicly revealed herself to be transgender.
After Carmen was known that she was a transgender she later announced that she has begun transitioning to living as a woman full-time.
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Carrera since 2009 was in a domestic partnership with Adrian Torres , but in 2013 she announced that they had separated. The two were together in 2015 , receiving relationship counseling while being filmed for the Couples Therapy television show. Their wedding was on June 10, 2015, during filming for the show, which aired as the season finale on December 9, 2015.
Carmen Carrera Man |Carmen Carrera Guy
Carrera had identified as a gay man, and continued to present as such during filming of the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but began to gender transition when she concluded filming. She is of Puerto Rican-Peruvian ancestry.
Carmen Carrera Rupaul Drag Race
She appeared in the third season of the reality television competition show, RuPaul’s Drag Race. Carrera was eliminated in episode 10 and brought back in episode 12, she is regarded to be the second contestant in the history of the show to rejoin the cast after being eliminated, and along with Raja, Manila Luzon, and Delta Work, was part of the clique known as “Heathers”, which took its name from the 1988 film, Heathers. She was eliminated in episode 10, “RuPaul-a-Palooza”, for her performance while singing a reggae-inspired cover of RuPaul’s song “Superstar.” However, Judges Michelle Visage, Santino Rice, and Billy Brasfield voted to re-invite Carrera to the competition in episode 12, “Jocks in Frocks”. Later she was eliminated in that episode.
Carmen Carrera Victoria Secret
A petition started requesting that Carrera serve as a model during the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, but despite media coverage and approximately 45,000 signatures the petition was unsuccessful.
Carmen Carrera Surgery
This is what she posted on her Facebook about her surgery “Yes, I live my life as a female but I have not gotten my gender reassignment surgery. To be honest, I’m still thinking about that part. Me and my husband want to be able to have kids one day and once I get the surgery, I will not be able to produce DNA to create an offspring with a genetic females DNA”
Carmen Carrera Movies
- Couples Therapy (TV Show)
- RuPaul’s Drag Race (TV Show)
- Couples Therapy (TV Show)
- RuPaul’s Drag Race (TV Show)
- Untold With Maria Menounos (TV Show)
- RuPaul’s Drag U (TV Show)
- Katie (TV Show
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I’m a Jersey girl. I was raised by my mom—who was the flyest girl ever—my older sister, and my grandmother. My father died of AIDS when I was 2, but I grew up really happy; there were women around me all the time, and a lot of love. My mom is Peruvian and curly-haired and is a big beauty inspiration for me. We’d always be singing the latest hits, and she would enroll me in little plays, but I was shy. I was more into doing things by myself: I’d wrap a T-shirt around my head and put on makeup to try to look like her. I knew that I was different, but my mom never told me I should be any other way. Consequently, I didn’t grow up thinking that I was wrong being who I was—until I got to school. That’s when the actress in me had to come out.
I’d see kids who were gay, and they’d get picked on. So I learned very quickly that I had to keep certain things to myself: I’d try to act like a boy and wear sneakers. It helped that I was friends with all the cool girls. They would hang out with the popular boys, who knew better than to tease me or the girls would get on their case. But straight after finishing high school, I left them all—I went to New York, like, that weekend. I’d gotten a brand-new car, and I started going to the Village and getting to know the scene. I went to my first drag show at a Latin club called Escuelita. The finale starred this stunningly beautiful goddess. She was obviously a transwoman, and she took my breath away.
At the time I was studying photography in college, so I would take pictures of the shows, and I got to know all the girls. I also started doing makeup professionally, but surprisingly I discovered that what I really wanted to do was perform. I participated in an amateur show, and the audience loved me—I won! After that, I started touring clubs and acquired a fan base. I also realized that being onstage gave me an escape: I could be feminine, which is what I was on the inside. I never felt like a gay guy—growing up I’d pray that I would wake up a girl.
Eventually, I didn’t want to act like a woman anymore—I wanted to become one. I went to a doctor, and he prescribed what I needed. But I sat on it for a little bit. I kept thinking, What happens if I don’t look nice? That same month, I got a phone call from the producers of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Literally the day after we finished filming the show, I decided it was time to transition.
It hasn’t been easy—especially when it comes to dating. I tell people I’m transgender, and they bring up all the negative stereotypes that come from ignorance. I don’t have time to play psychologist, so I try to lead by example. I want to leave something behind so people can look back one day and say, “Wow, remember when transpeople were discriminated against the most? This person was like, ‘Screw everybody! I’m going to parade around half-naked and be superproud, because that’s how everyone should be!’ ”