“Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.”

American television personality, singer, broadcaster, producer, and actress

Michelle Visage is an American television personality, singer, broadcaster, producer, and actress. She first came to wider attention as a member of the dance-pop group Seduction, active on the Billboard Hot 100 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She later became the lead vocalist of The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M., whose 1993 single "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day" reached the top of the dance charts. Her career spans music and television, with work across performance, hosting, and production.