Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams

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Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams
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Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams at RuPaul's DragCon LA, 2022
Born
Daniel Hernandez

1990or1991(age 33–34) [1]
Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation Drag queen
Television RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10)
Website kaloriekarbdashian.com

Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams (sometimes simply Kalorie Karbdashian) [2] is the stage name of Daniel Hernandez, an American drag performer who competed on season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race . Born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico, Hernandez is based in Albuquerque.

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Early life and education

Daniel Hernandez was born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico. [3] He has said he was bullied in high school because of his weight, which reached as high as 340 pounds. [4]

Career

Hernandez is a drag performer based in Albuquerque. He has said of his early experimentation with gender expression:

I started doing drag because I was kind of going through this identity crisis where I thought I wanted to be a woman. Then I started playing with makeup and I started to see that I could create a whole different face. From then I knew I didn't want to be a woman, but I just wanted to play with makeup. [5]

Hernandez performed at the gay bar Albuquerque Social Club and was crowned Miss Duke City at the venue in 2016. [6] He competed as Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams on season 10 (2018) of RuPaul's Drag Race and has continued to perform in drag shows. In 2018, Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams was part of the line-up for the annual 'Out in the Park' event at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. [7] She is a resident performer at Effex Nightclub in Albuquerque, as of 2019. [8]

RuPaul's Drag Race

Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams was the first contestant to represent New Mexico on Drag Race. [3] On the premiere episode of the season ("10s Across the Board"), she placed in the bottom two of the main challenge and defeated Vanessa Vanjie Mateo in a lip-sync to "Ain't No Other Man" (2006) by Christina Aguilera. [9] [10] Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams was eliminated from the competition on the second episode ("PharmaRusical"), [3] which featured a musical theatre challenge (or Rusical) inspired by pharmaceutical marketing. [11] [12] After being placed in the bottom two again, she lost a lip-sync battle against Eureka O'Hara to "Best of My Love" (1977) by The Emotions. [13] [14]

The Houston Chronicle 's Joey Guerra said she "brought a gorgeous face and twerking skills". [15] Dennis Hinzmann of Out magazine said Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams showed "curvy, body-positive looks". [16] Paul Hagen of the LGBT magazine Metrosource wrote, "We especially got behind Kalorie's big-is-beautiful ethos, and her inspiring story of reshaping her life after reaching a weight well above 300 pounds in high school .... And we have rarely seen any contestant on Drag Race twerk on the runway with such vigor." [17] In The Spinoff 's 2019 "definitive ranking" of Drag Race lip-syncs to date, Sam Brooks ranked her battles against Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Eureka O'Hara numbers 116 and 112 out of 162, respectively. [18]

Personal life

Hernandez is gay. [2] On Drag Race, he recalled being bullied for his weight, not his sexual orientation. [4]

Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams' name was inspired by Kim Kardashian and the Kardashian family. [6] [19]

Filmography

Television

Web series

See also

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