Yuhas is leaving behind their career as a makeup artist to step into a new one—as a drag queen. Performing as CryBaby, they're about to make their full-time debut. If you want to be on What We Spend, we'd love to hear from you. Write us at [email protected] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Crybaby. She's a skank. No. I love Crybaby so much. Crybaby is a bombastic, in-your-face, flirty, horrifying clown. Like... I always tell people that Crybaby is at the apex of everything that's scary, sexy, and stupid. Like, there's always an element of horror. But there's also, I don't take it too seriously. There's always, like, a wink to it. You know, there's some irony.
There's something to it. So that's who she is. I love her. I love the slut. She's fun. This is Crybaby, a spooky or horror-themed drag queen. When I'm in drag, I go by Crybaby. Out of drag, I go by Juhasz. Juhasz is 35 years old, and they live in New York City.
After I made the decision to move out here, I would not stop talking about the fact that I was moving to New York. And that 27-year-old version of myself really romanticized the artist's struggle. How are you feeling about the artist's struggle now? You know, it's not as romantic as I thought it was going to be.
Juhasz has always been an artist and a performer, and they've been making money that way for a long time, most recently by working as a makeup artist for theater productions and film shoots in the city. Their last job was with the Blue Man Group. I mean, talk about makeup forward.
Yeah. Well, you know what? I'm not going to lie. I'll just say it's kind of like icing a cake. If you've iced a cake, you can get a Blue Man ready.
Juhasz will always love doing makeup. But when the show closed and Juhasz got laid off, they decided to use this time to lean into their love of drag. After years of working various survival jobs at tech stores and in the service industry, they are ready to try to make it work as a full-time drag performer. But that's a risk, because doing drag is expensive, and making money with it
isn't always straightforward. This week, we'll follow along as Juhasz pushes past their fears and prepares for their very first performance as a full-time drag queen. I'm Courtney Harrell, and this is What We Spend. How did you get into it originally?
So it's really interesting because when I was a child, like four or five, I loved girls' clothes. I loved Barbies. I loved shiny things. I loved hair. And I remember I was always so jealous of girls because they got to wear the fun stuff. I thought it was so fun. But I was very early on taught like, you are a man. You do not do that. This is how you need to behave.
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