{"id":24557,"date":"2019-05-30T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1045767"},"modified":"2019-05-30T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T01:29:00","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-star-michelle-visage-advocates-for-breast-implant-illness-awareness-on-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/rupauls-drag-race-star-michelle-visage-advocates-for-breast-implant-illness-awareness-on-season-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race Star Michelle Visage Advocates for Breast Implant Illness Awareness on Season Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.228125\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019430\/rs_634x1024-190530174507-634-michelle-visage-rupauls-dragrace-me-53019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Michelle Visage\" alt=\"Michelle Visage\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Chelsea Guglielmino\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.838187702265\">\n<p><strong>Michelle Visage<\/strong> said &#8220;sashay away&#8221; to her breast implants for an important reason.<\/p>\n<p>During the Season 11 finale of <em>RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race<\/em>, the 50-year-old media personality took a moment to advocate for breast implant illness awareness.<\/p>\n<p>But first, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rupaul\">RuPaul<\/a><\/strong> had the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My courageous friend decided to undergo explant surgery to have her breast implants removed; to help other women who may be suffering from breast implant illness,&#8221; the drag icon said, as he dazzled in a neon-green gown and larger-than-life blonde wig. &#8220;She&#8217;s sharing her story in an upcoming documentary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since this is <em>Drag Race<\/em>, RuPaul said goodbye to Visage&#8217;s implants with a cheeky &#8220;In Memoriam&#8221; tribute. &#8220;Breast in Peace,&#8221; the short video clip read. Of course, Ru couldn&#8217;t resist throwing out a few more jokes before turning the spotlight to Michelle. &#8220;I promise from now on no more big boob jokes&#8230; Now, is there anything you want to get off your chest?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>The&nbsp;reality TV personality agreed that &#8220;laughter is healing, darling&#8221; before opening up about her surgery.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.434262948207\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.533864541833\">\n<p>&#8220;If there are any women out there that want information, they can check out organizations like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healingbreastimplantillness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healing Breast Implant Illness<\/a>,&#8221; she revealed, standing alongside her fellow&nbsp;<em>Drag Race<\/em> judges <strong>Ross Matthews<\/strong> and <strong>Carson Kressley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And just to let you know Ru, I will always be your breast&nbsp;Judy,&#8221; she cheekily said. Adding, &#8220;Womp, womp (as she held her breasts). Love you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the former&nbsp;<strong>Seduction<\/strong>&nbsp;member opened up about her breast implant removal and how having Hashimoto&#8217;s disease led to that decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel strong and healthy for the first time,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/michelle-visage-breast-implants-removed-hashimotos-disease\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she told&nbsp;<em>People<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;&#8220;I feel like I am doing something to regain and reclaim my life and health. I want to be here for a long time to be with my children, my husband and to see my grandchildren.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>She explained her decision even more, saying,&nbsp;&#8220;If you think about it, your immune system fights off invaders, and the biggest invaders in my body are two giant blobs of silicone.&nbsp;My autoimmune disease could be triggered by these invaders. So they needed to come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boob implants or not, Visage will continue to &#8220;sissy that walk!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1045767\/rupaul-s-drag-race-star-michelle-visage-advocates-for-breast-implant-illness-awareness-on-season-finale?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Guglielmino\/Getty Images Michelle Visage said &#8220;sashay away&#8221; to her breast implants for an important reason. During the Season 11 finale of RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race, the 50-year-old media personality took a moment to advocate for breast implant illness awareness. But first, RuPaul had the floor. &#8220;My courageous friend decided to undergo explant surgery to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 06:34:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}