It pays to be a winner, baby.
Jinkx Monsoon, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7, and Willow Pill, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14, both tasted Drag Race glory over the last calendar year. Sure, it’s elevated their careers to new heights—but it’s also made them very rich.
Jinkx took home $200,000, the biggest prize in Drag Race history for the first-ever all-winners season. Willow, meanwhile, banked $150,000, the biggest prize for a non-All Stars season in history.
So, how are they spending their earnings?
“I’m putting it in my kids’ college fund,” Willow told Variety Aug. 16. “But beyond that, right now, my plan is just to keep it in savings, and hopefully retire early. I would love to retire at 35.”
Before you think the 27-year-old queen from Denver is kidding, just ask her drag sister.
“She’s not joking,” Jinkx said. “That’s what she told me when we were last together. She said, “I’m gonna do a few more gigs.”