RuPaul’s Drag Race reality TV show, announced in a video that she is going on a three-month sabbatical to take better care of herself.The winner of Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars explained her decision-making in a nearly 17-minute-long YouTube video entitled “I’m Taking A Break!
Here’s Why.” In it, Mattel called her current situation “unsustainable.” Mattel appears out of drag in the video and said that the last 12 months were “the most difficult time of my entire life.”The 34-year-old Wisconsin native said she felt “weird” complaining about her problems, in part because her success and fame enabled her to live out some of her dreams.
But as her career opportunities took off, she felt she was neglecting her social life, her emotional well-being, and her personal relationships with family and friends.“You know those straight guys who are all muscly at the top and have those twig little legs at the gym?
That was my work-life balance,” Mattel says in the video. “It was all work and money-making and creative stuff, and then my social life, my family life, my personal life… twigs.
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