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Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie.
Come get these cookies, baby.
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Alex, whats the tea?
When did you first start seeing the memes?I saw them right after my elimination.
They started to come out, little by little.
But, I remember one day just opening up my social media.
It was going crazy on Twitter and Instagram.
I was getting tagged.
And next thing I knew Miss Vanjie was everywhere like hot cakes.
That one is hilarious!
I was so depressed that I got sent home.
As you saw on my facial expression when RuPaul said, Boo, you gotta go.
I was sad, I was depressed, I didnt know what to think.
So I just said, Girl, fuck it.
You might as well just start screaming bloody murder and screamMiss Vanjie.
They told me I resembled her, so, I took that name.
Miss Vanjie was because I wanted to become Banjee, like ghetto.
And then Mateo because Alexis is my drag mother.
IsThe Little Mermaidyour favorite Disney movie?She is.
Thats my favorite Disney movie.
And then she told me, if I needed to read somebody, just read them with a smile.
Obviously its hard to be the first person to be eliminated.
I thought I was one of the cute ones.
Personally, that was not my tea.
I thought she looked crazy.
But thats just me.
I guess for her it was.
If you could do anything over again, what would you do differently?Not get sent home.
But since that happened already, I would have made sure my silhouette was on point.
Like the critique that Michelle said.
If she wants to see my body, I will give her my body.
Im a little ho of all trades.
I look so good!
I said, Oh my god, theres just all this beauty.
And then I thought,Bitch, I kinda look like my momma.
Because my mommas fierce.
If you see me and my mom, we look like twins.
My mommas a badass bitch.
In our family, we like to take care of ourselves.
My mom gives me a little bit of J.Lo, mixed with a little bit of Selena.
Shes got the fierce body, long hair.
I get it from my momma.
Whats the wildest story since you started doing drag?This is a good one.
Not too long ago, the other night, I was in L.A.
I had finished doing a show, and I left the venue.
But I was with a group of people.
There was like ten of us.
And he was following me all the way down the street!
He was honking the horn, trying to tell me to come in the car, baby!
Come in the car.
And I said, This is notPretty Womanand Im not jumping in, baby.
Who do you think is going to win?The fuck if I know!
I know I should have won!
I thought I was gonna win!
If not, I wouldnt have sent my ass home.
So, now that Im not there, I dont give a fuck who wins.
I needed to win Miss Congeniality, thats what I want.
Would you come back for another season if you were invited?Hell yeah, I would come back!
I got my bags packed ready to go.
I would do anything RuPaul asks me to do.
Even jump off into a pit full of gators and maneuver my way through it.
I would do it just for RuPaul.
