Model Miss Fame bears pubic hair in Out Magazine – and fans love it

Fans initially thought actor Ezra Miller was the publication's mystery cover star

(Paula Kudacki/Out Magazine)

Miss Fame has been praised for bearing her pubic hair in the April issue of Out Magazine.

The photograph of the drag queen, who is best known for being a contestant on season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race, features inside the magazine and was teased on the publication’s Instagram account the day before Fame was revealed as its cover star.

The teaser prompted a flurry of guesses as to who it might be, with actors Ezra Miller and Timothée Chalamet among them.

Fame’s extensive fan base has inundated Out’s social media feeds with comments lauding the cover and accompanying photographs, particularly the one in which the entrepreneur bares her pubic hair.

“This image is powerful,” wrote one person, while another described it as the "absolutely breathtaking".

Others responded by comparing Fame to other Hollywood stars, with one person referencing Cate Blanchett while another said she resembled American singer Courtney Love.

Fame, whose real name is Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen, also works as a makeup artist and has just launched her own lipstick collection, making her an apt choice for this particular issue of the magazine, which is themed around beauty.

(Paula Kudacki/Out Magazine (Paula Kudacki/Out Magazine)

The photo shoot is accompanied by an in-depth interview in which the 33-year-old, who also runs a YouTube account with more than 500,000 subscribers, opens up about her complicated relationship with makeup.

“I had the ability to create makeup looks that were refined and beautiful, but I started getting to the point where I began to wonder, ‘Can I feel comfortable enough in my own beauty? Am I beautiful enough to just be? Yes, I can do the makeup, but can I bring it down to nothingness and still be OK? And can I still capture something worth looking at?”

(Out Magazine/Paula Kudacki (Out Magazine/Paula Kudacki)

Later in the interview, the publication reveals that the 33-year-old was asked to cry on set so that they could photograph her with smudged makeup on her face.

But then the interviewer notes that “something shifted” in Fame, and she began to actually cry.

“I wondered if I was only beautiful enough because I created a fantasy that’s not real,” recalls Fame.

“And that, to me, needed to change.”

Out Magazine's editor-in-chief, Phillip Picardi, posted a photograph from the shoot on Instagram alongside a caption explaining how thrilled he was to have Fame on the cover.

"I last saw @missfamenyc at the Paris Men’s Week shows, where she walked in, towering above all the men’s editors, wearing a Dior Homme corset and a futuristic purple, glitter lipstick. Watching the cameras go wild as she walked by was the highlight of my Fashion Month. I’m so happy she’s on our cover this month."

You can read the full interview with Fame online here.