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  • Can you...can you come up here?

  • You look gorgeous

  • I love inspiring people so that's where I got lot of um.. the confidence 'cause

  • I am helping other people's lives to make sure they express themselves.

  • Always be yourself and always be proud of who you are no matter what anyone says to you.

  • When I was 2, after I saw season 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race, I started using my mom's towels,

  • blankets, and bubble wrap, whatever I could get my hands on.

  • I would wrap them around my body and put them on my head

  • to make it look like I had a wig on.

  • I started to going drag shows when I was 5 years old and it was really fascinating to

  • see these people, like, dressing how they wanted and all this fierce makeup they had on.

  • So yeah, it was pretty amazing.

  • Overnight, I became, like, this viral superstar and when i vogued the whole way of the pride

  • parade and a fan started a fan page on Facebook calledDesmond is Amazingand I really

  • loved the name.

  • So then I decided to keep my stage name asDesmond is Amazing.”

  • And that's I've been known as to this day.

  • When I was, like, 6 or 7, I would make me look like a car crash, but then I quit because

  • I was like “I can't do makeup,” but then once I did my photoshoot for 'HARDY

  • Zine' my mom packed a bunch of makeup and I decided that I wanted to try out doing makeup.

  • And I didn't give up, even though sometimes I did it really bad, but sometimes I also

  • created really amazing like the

  • I did once geometric where I had eyeliner and I made little, like, crazy shapes and

  • I filled it out with eyeshadow.

  • Well, my mom thought that RuPaul just smiled at me and she thought that was going to be

  • the end of it, but then RuPaul was likecan you come up here?”

  • And I was like, I'm going to come up here no matter what.

  • And the thing that matters is that I got to meet my idol and that he called me the future

  • of America.

  • My mom always watched documentaries and I would watch them.

  • Some of them were about civil riots, club kids, blitz kids, so that's how I learned

  • about the culture of New York City.

  • My relationship with my mom is so amazing.

  • She is the biggest role model in my life.

  • And I sketch out outfits and she makes them into reality which is um...I don't know

  • how I would live without her.

  • I would just faint.

  • I think that I, basically, would rather have a kid that feels accepted to be himself and

  • feels that he has a mind of his own to think with, than to feel resentful.

  • I think that all kids should be able to be creative and free thinking and not feel

  • like they have to be a mini version of their parents.

  • I see that I'm doing the same thing like a soccer mom might do or a mom whose kid likes

  • to paint.

  • You know, they would buy them paints and paper and a soccer mom might buy uniforms and the

  • other equipment, whereas I'm helping to make his costumes for what he wants to do.

  • Bullies are people who are just jealous that you're so pretty and that you are so confident

  • to do what you want.

  • It's not good to make fun of other people just because of what they are wearing.

  • You should always be yourself and always be proud of who you are no matter what anyone

  • says to you.

  • And haters should just go away 'cause if you don't like it, then don't watch it.

  • I can only own my own feelings and I can't own what these other people's feelings are,

  • so I try to pay it no mind, like Desmond says.

  • The most positive thing is that he is visible out there and he is able to inspire others

  • and engage others in his story.

  • There's really no secret to parenting anybody except to teach them to do the right thing

  • and to accept themselves, and just encourage them to grow into respectful citizens.

  • Work.

  • That was amazing.

  • Be yourself always no matter what anyone says and just tell the haters to pay no mind.

Can you...can you come up here?

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