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Mariah Paris Balenciaga, known simply as Mariah on Season 3, is an American drag queen, hair stylist, makeup artist and performer from Gainesville, Georgia. She competed on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race, placing 9th.

On May 8, 2020, it was announced that she would be competing in All Stars 5. She was eliminated in the third episode, placing 8th in the competition overall.

Drag Name Origin[]

Mariah was given to her by the father of the House of Armani who recruited her in the ballroom scene. It rhymes with her boy name Elijah so it was easy for her to remember. She was Mariah Armani and then Mariah Balenciaga when she became one of the founding members of the House of Balenciaga. Paris is from her drag family name.[2]

Track Record(s)[]

Mariah Paris Balenciaga
Statistics USA Season 3 USA All Stars
Season 5
Ranking: 9th Place 8th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 0 0
Mini Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 3) 0
Times as Team Captain: 1 (Ep. 3) 0
Times in Bottom: 1 (Ep. 6) 2 (Eps. 2, 3)
Episode Eliminated: Episode 6 Episode 3

Entrance Quotes[]

Season 3[]

  • "Condragulations Raja on the runway. Mug4Dayz! Mariah."[3]

All Stars 5[]

  • "In a room full of 10s, I'm always grand prize."

Memorable Quotes[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3[]

  • "My name is Mariah, aka Mariah Paris, aka Mariah Successful."
  • "Her look is definitely not polished, it's definitely not fabulous; it's almost as if I went into my granny's trunk in the attic." (in reference to Raja's cyclops hat entrance.)
  • "When it comes to going out in drag in the day time, I'm good. 'Cause baby, if it's right, it's right."
  • "Miss Venus? You're too young, baby, to have that much work in your face. That much wrong work." (Referring to Venus D-Lite's plastic surgery to look more like Madonna)
  • I'm tired of seeing patches and blotches of highlight here and there. No, ma'am!. Girl smooth that shit out, blend it out." (referring to Shangela in Untucked Season 3, Episode 3. "Queen in Space".)
  • "I look like I got like, fix-a-flat in my face?"
  • "You know what? I have thick skin, but that is your one free pass bitch!"
  • "I'm the Milk-Maid."
  • "Prepare to gag on my eleganza!" (as Boobarella in Season 3, Episode 3 challenge" Queens in Space".)
  • "A pineapple gown with glitter on it, bitch! Girl, I just can't take this. It's too much. Get my pocketbook I'm leaving." (referring to Manila Luzon's pineapple gown in Untucked.)
  • "Were you really born a genetic woman?" (to Kristen Cavallari in Episode 5 "QNN News")
  • "Uhm, I'm in the bottom 3 and I'm still just pretty.... next on news at 10!" (to Raja in Snatch Game Untucked.)
  • "We are the ones who are innovators, and the driving force behind progress in humanity."
  • "Elephant shoe, Honey..*Laugh*, cantaloupe, and shalabalabatuna."(referring to her not knowing the words to Jody Watley's "Looking for a New Love."
  • "I saw the fishnets and they were ripped." (to Shangela referring to Mimi Imfurst.)
  • "I'm feeling entertained, amused."

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 5[]

  • "Come on Grandma Barbie!" (to Jujubee)
  • "I'm Mariah Balenciaga, aka Mariah Paris, aka Mariah Successful, aka Miss Queen of All Stars Season 5."
  • "Shea Couleé, why so emotional, baby?" (reading Shea Couleé in the Reading is Fundamental challenge while throwing rose petals)
  • "The marks. The stains. My words I shall not refrain. From veins, the pain flows of those chained. Stains from the fights for rights, freedom's still not in sight. Stains from clashes and lashes. Stains on the walls of those with voice, power, and pride. Stains of those who refused to be silenced or hide. Stains on the wall of those feared and misunderstood. Stains of those who were told who to love. How to love, how to act. Religious veils sanctify that. Retaliation to a terror born of this nation. Stains of those who lived through segregation. Will we transcend and ascend, will the fear and hate will ever end? That's the greatest question of all... Until then, I'll continue to tell the story of the stains on the wall." (Her spoken word talent for the Variety Show)
  • "I wish I could’ve done this to a jackass." (when she was voting for the queen to be eliminated)
  • "Bitch, you gonna get those off? You deserve to rest your digits." (to India Ferrah)
  • “I'm in love with Jason Momoa. He is my Aquaman, I take his trident how I can. He'll have me bent, I'll have him sent. Yes, I'm that bitch, yes, I'm that bitch. He'll filet me, he will slay me.” (verse in I'm in Love)
  • "Girl, who is pussy pink?" (referring to Blair St. Clair's skin runway look)
  • ''Girl, what was that? I was like is she doing the Finding Dory whale call? *whale noises* I was like bitch! Oh, no!'' (about Ongina's voice in the recording of her ''I'm In Love'' verse)
  • "I love two-star hotels!"
  • ”Girthy meats and cheeses.“
  • ''My tear conducts have turned into raisins.''
  • ''My mind is a fishbowl with nothing in it but peebles and vodka.''

Trivia[]

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  • She started doing drag when she was 18 years old during a Halloween party, which was either 1999 or 2000, as she mentioned on the first episode of Season 3 that she had been doing drag for 11 years.
  • Mariah is a hairstylist full-time out of drag.
  • Mariah has appeared...
  • On Season 3, Mariah became...
    • ...the first queen ever to be the team captain of the winning team, but to not win the challenge.
    • ...the second queen in herstory to be saved from the bottom two (i.e. to place low) twice in a row. The first was Carmen Carrera in the same season.
  • On All Stars 5, Mariah became...
    • ...the first queen in herstory to refuse to do the exit interview after being eliminated.
    • ...the second queen to do a spoken word show on an All Star Variety Show, after Tatianna in All Stars 2.
    • ...the third queen to compete in All Stars to be eliminated in the Snatch Game of her original season, after Gia Gunn and Monique Heart from All Stars 4.
    • ...the second queen to move up only one place in her All Stars ranking compared to her original rank, from placing 9th on her original season to placing 8th on All Stars. The first to move only one place up were Chad Michaels and Alaska, both moving up from Runner-Ups to Winners.
    • ...the seventh queen to compete on more than one season, but to only lip-sync once, the other six being Milk, Thorgy Thor, Pandora Boxx, Ongina, Blair St. Clair and Nina Flowers.
    • ...the only queen to have her drag name shortened in her original season and later restored to full in a subsequent appearance.
  • Although she was safe, Ricky Martin congratulated her on her All Stars 5 Talent Show.
  • On All Stars 5, Mariah had the same season stats as her friend Kimora Blac from Season 9.
  • If Mariah would have made it to the Snatch Game episode in All Stars 5, she would have done Jackée Harry.
  • Mariah launched a line of scented candles.[7]

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