‘Whatcha Packin’ for ‘Drag Race 16’ Top 3: Plane Jane plays nice with Michelle Visage

Each week on “Whatcha Packin’,” Michelle Visage interviews the recently eliminated queen, but for the three finalists of season 16 she’s sitting down to chat ahead of the April 19 “Grand Finale.” Plane Jane talks padding, confidence and family support as moments that propelled her to the end of the competition. Watch the full episode above via the official RuPaul’s Drag Race channel on YouTube.

In her interview with Michelle, Jane reveals the birth of her drag career as coming from a “downward spiral” she was in following her grandma’s death and how she turned her obsession with “Drag Race” in to a goal and a way of coming out of a negative trajectory. She said she started with makeup and practiced using Raven as a guide in her room “for a year” before she “got the courage” to go out in public in drag. She adds that she hid drag from her family at first, but ultimately it became impossible to hide around the house. She gives credit to the show itself for giving her “access to do drag” coming from a home of scientists and first generation Russian-Americans.

Jane fills Michelle and the audience in on the secret of her friend Camille Yen back home who creates the perfect padding that helped create what Michelle calls a “perfect body” that Jane showed on the runway. Michelle also brought up Jane’s “Snatch Game” performance and reiterates how surprised she was that Jelena Karleuša is a real person and not someone Jane made up. In describing some of the garments she wore on the runway, Jane reveals that Utica Queen from season 13 helped make part of the gown she wore in the “Fandango” runway category.

Check out Michelle’s conversations with the previously eliminated queens of the season: Hershii LiqCour-Jeté after episode 3, Mirage after episode 4, Amanda Tori Meating after episode 5. Geneva Karr after episode 6, Megami after episode 7, Xunami Muse after episode 8, Plasma after episode 9, Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige after episode 11, Dawn after episode 12., and Q after episode 14.

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