Yahoo Lifestyle “RuPaul's Drag Race” queen Jewels Sparkles promises to raise season 17's 'c--t index' with her Ariana Grande-inspired looks
Jewels, the granddaughter of "All Stars 4" winner Trinity The Tuck, tells EW she's filling the Main Stage with her "c--t aura" this season.
According to, well, herself, RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 star Jewels Sparkles is “forever that bitch,” and has been since birth.
“I was born with a certificate, on my birth certificate, that said, ‘That bitch,’ and I wrote it! Yes, it was me that wrote that,” she tells Entertainment Weekly in a video interview (above), stressing that the descriptor was her own, self-given title at the dawn of her drag origin story. Seconds later, she adds: “My mother looked at me and said, ‘You are that bitch!’”
Yes, this means that the title was not, in fact, self-given. It’s one of the many gleeful contradictions that communicate all you need to know about the many sides of the Tampa, Fla., bombshell.
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Jewels Sparkles and Ariana GrandeMost likely, Jewels will first disarm you with her arresting good looks, in a signature aesthetic that serves “Priscilla Presley meets Ariana Grande.” But, any intimidation you might feel over her fembot energy immediately melts away the moment she speaks, whether it’s calling herself “the experiment” with regard to her diverse wardrobe (she’ll wear anything from a gory Jennifer’s Body-style ensemble to light lingerie as a 1960s calendar girl) or reflecting on that time she filmed herself using a dollar to tip an Elsa animatronic (who was “serving too much c--t“) inside Disney World’s Frozen Ever After boat ride.
“It’s very c--t, c--t, it’s a c--t aura,” she says, in estimation of herself, which rings true when she looks back on how she went from fledgling local to grade-A star on the regional circuit.
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“I thought it was a bar competition,” Jewels says, reflecting on her casual entry into the Florida Entertainer of the Year gauntlet, a prestigious state-wide pageant that she almost brushed off as “an open-stage moment,” but her performance still caught the eye of All Stars 4 winner Trinity The Tuck (and the alum’s daughter, Shontelle Sparkles) enough to adopt her into the dynasty.
She jokes that Trinity found her to be “so clueless,” and helped mold her into the glamour girl she is today — one that aims to bring her Florida-reared vibe to a global platform on Drag Race.
Of her runways, Jewels promises: “I’m going to give you lots of variety, and it’s going to be very c--t. Every single look? The ferocity and c--t index? Maxed. I don’t think it gets more c--t than my looks. Honestly. But, that’s just my opinion and the opinion of the judges. And my costars."
Her Instagram bio also lists her as a "model," but she's not quite there anywhere outside of her own mind just yet.
“I model in my room, I model at the clubs, all places I have access to,” she says of her cover girl ambitions. “That’s manifestation. I’m not a signed model, but it will happen.” May the Main Stage be the runway that takes her from that bitch to That Bitch™, in perpetuity.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on MTV. Watch EW's full interview with Jewels at the top of this post.
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