From: NewNowNext
Two years before Bianca Del Rio snagged the titled of America’s Next Drag Superstar on RuPaul’s Drag Race, she posed as Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney in a photo shoot for New York’s gay Next magazine.
As you may recall, Maroney was going viral at the time for the salty look she was sporting at her silver medal ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics. The resulting meme was the hottest thing (not including Tom Daley) to come out of the Games that year.
Never one to be outdone, Bianca inserted herself into the meme by dressing up in McKayla Maroney drag and recreating the scene for Next’s 2012 Summer Yearbook issue, shot by Kevin Thomas Garcia.
The priceless meme’d meme even inspired a few memes of its own:
The issue also featured Bianca on the cover as Eva Perón, a hilarious ordeal that drew a crowd of tourists in Central Park while it was being shot.
Writer and former Rentboy staffer Elle Estanol wrote about the experience in a post on his blog. Check out his behind-the-scenes video from that day, below:
You can see more outtakes from the shoot on Next magazine’s Tumblr.
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