Amanda Lepore

The club kids want to come out, show off their unique style, have fun and be themselves. I think that's the way it has always been.

I really got into Chanel No. 5 (both the fragrance and the body cream) because Marilyn Monroe was famously a fan, so of course, I had to be.

Okay, so if I'm going out late in the day, I'll use an SPF 30, but during the day, I'll use the SPF 55.

If it were up to me, I'd be using the SPF 100, but I read somewhere that it only protects you up to SPF 50 anyway, and anything higher than that and you're just putting bad stuff onto your skin. So I've always been about staying inside and wearing sunscreen. That's why my skin is like a baby's. Or a 14-year-old girl's.

I'll use this Midnight Recovery Oil on my face under makeup to get this really dewy look, and then on my body, I like really rich moisturizers. The one I use is Kiehl's Creme de Corps just because it's so thick and lasts.

Plastic surgery is for when you don't like things... Everything I've got already looks so good.

I sometimes think about doing getting more stuff done to my body, but not really.

I think Instagram is great, especially for kids, because you can be anything and still find a role model.

Even though I know it's not always the case, I associate dressing up with mental stability.

If I'm dressed down, I'm sad. If I'm really done up, I feel happy and mentally well.

Trump is wack and his wife has terrible wigs.

I had to complete high school at home.

A girl can never have enough shoes!

I love and appreciate my fans so much. They truly are the best gift a girl can ask for!

I feel most glamorous in tight-fitting dresses that hug my curves, and the highest heels.

I am particular about my look. I always do my hair and makeup by myself.

I just do my own thing. I don't really follow fashion.

In school, I was Armand. In boys' clothes. But so small and girlie, I thought I was a girl.

Kids made fun of me and harassed me.

Camp was something I'd never heard of until I started working with Susanne Bartsch - then I heard it all the time.

In New York City nightlife in the '90s, everything was camp!

I work and perform in clubs all of the time, so naturally it's an influence for me.

I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.

With 'RuPaul's Drag Race' getting popular, you see more and more people dressing up and going out.

The bio girls are what kind of inspired me to get into the club scene. I related to them more - like, Dianne Brill was a huge inspiration for me.

When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic.

When I first came to New York I did nails, and I really didn't get a lot of money.

The club scene was really like a... they really weren't sure if I was a girl or a transsexual. When they found out, it was celebrated instead of 'Ssshh! Don't tell anyone!' That felt really liberating.

Well, my dresses are very tight and mostly all made for me - couture, baby.

I worked on perfect beauty for a lifetime.

I based my lips on Jessica Rabbit.

I was always very body-conscious. Especially when I was transitioning, taking hormones and things. I noticed that I would gain weight quicker. So I would exercise and diet, so everything was how I'd like to look.

After having the sex change, it was about getting married and fitting in and blending into society, so to speak. When I had jobs, people would say, 'Don't talk about that.' It really made people uncomfortable.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend!

I always felt like a girl. My parents in New Jersey weren't exactly encouraging, but my grandmother was very open-minded. She had lots of costume jewelry and a big chest of purses and things, and she would let me play with all of it - even her makeup and perfume. She just didn't care.

At my funeral, someone had better touch up my lips and foundation before they close the casket. That's not a beauty tip. It's a formal request.

I always loved watching old movies and I loved Marilyn Monroe and all those blondes; that hyper feminine 1950s glamour and the exaggeration of it. Then Jessica Rabbit came along and it was an exaggeration of that look and so I wanted to be even more exaggerated than that.

I had the bottom rib broken and pushed in and it took an inch or two off. It really hurt when I lay down but if I was standing up or sitting it was OK. It wasn't horrifying.

If you let people walk all over you, they'll just keep doing it.

We need to protect other transsexuals.

I'm on Tinder. I work mostly in gay clubs and I would have really bad relationships because I would meet aspiring models or bartenders or go-go dancers... not always the best choices! So I got on Tinder because one of my friends was on it. It's amazing. I can get more of what I like. I love it.

I'm well-traveled. I've had to get a few passports because I ran out of pages.

I don't like 'transgender.' It got so politically correct. I like transsexual - it sounds like a 1950s scandal magazine.

I've worked in the gay clubs in Moscow, and the big cities. They're much more tolerant. It's the small cities where you get the prejudice. Kind of like America. Here in New York City, or San Francisco, it's great. But, like, in Tennessee or down South, it gets harder. It's that situation. But it was really bad in Russia because of law enforcing.

I do yoga, go to the gym. I do a lot of weights, a little cardio, lots of squats, lower body stuff. I've had a trainer over the years, that helped get a routine.

I'll eat fish, but only once in a while.

I eat healthy.

It's illegal in the U.S., but I had it done in Mexico. They break the floating rib in the back and push it in, so there's no scar.

Rather than emulate the girls I grew up with who made fun of me, I decided I wanted to look like a movie star. It was like an escape.

There is a reason I am labeled 'The Most Expensive Body On Earth.'