![]() JW: Since being overweight is part of your appeal, can you give us some pointers on gaining weight?ĭ: God, well… I love sodas. They say, “I’m not gonna look through your luggage-just give me an autographed photo.”ĭ: When you think of a bombshell, you think of Monroe or Mansfield, you don’t think of a three-hundred-pound man. Lately, coming into America, the customs people know me. They open my bags and see two tits staring up at them and they slam it closed. JW: I know how weird it is to travel with you-when airport security opens your suitcase and sees your cheater and fake tits.ĭ: I still put all that stuff on top when I travel abroad. It wasn’t worth dying so I could wear a low-cut dress. I thought about having hormone injections so I could have big breasts. I thought about it at one point a long time ago when we were making Pink Flamingos. JW: Did you ever want to have a sex change?ĭ: No. I walk on stage with you and abuse the audience with words and they love to hear it. When you told me to do things, it worked. I’d be sitting there in drag-eight-feet tall-and their kids would be horrified. I remember you used to drag me to the University of Maryland for appearances and we’d have to have dinner with those professors and their families. That’s when some fan gave me a whole big box of different-colored turds wrapped in tissue paper. I had to shave so quickly I was a bloody mess.ĭ: Yeah, that time in Philadelphia when the film had been playing for a year and I had to jump out of a cake. I had to switch from a man’s role to a woman’s in one day. JW: I think you gave the best performance in Female Trouble.ĭ: I was thinking about that one the other day-another torturous role. “If I was your age, I’d be out there breaking windows,” he told me. I remember my father was disappointed that I didn’t go. JW: Were you ever involved in the political riots of the ’60s?ĭ: No, I couldn’t run as fast as you all could. JW: When you were in grade school, did you realize you were…special? Once I got caught by my grandmother-I had on a slip and a big hat and she chased me across the lawn. I only had about an hour and a half alone when I got home from school before my parents came home. ![]() We just talked all the time I would get dressed up and talk to him. When you were a kid, did you use to get in drag?ĭ: I didn’t have any brothers or sisters, so I used to play with this imaginary person, Jim. I know why people in show business have breakdowns. It’s not all limousines and emerald earrings. John Waters: How does it feel to be the most beautiful woman in the world?ĭivine: I tell you, it’s pretty disillusioning at times. To celebrate the birth of the late, great drag icon, we’re republishing the following interview with John Waters from the January, 1983 issue of High Times, excerpted from John Water’s 1981 book, Shock Value. Born Harris Glenn Milstead on October 19, 1945, Divine would have been 75 years old this year, if it weren’t for her untimely end on March 7, 1988.
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