No stranger to the camera, Bosco is bringing a recent sort of reality to TV.

The star of “RuPaul’s Drag Race’s” 14th season documented her facial feminization surgery, a gender-reaffirming cosmetic procedure, within the 30-minute video. The Paramount+ documentary, dubbed “Face of Bosco,” is offered exclusively on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s YouTube channel.

“I had facial feminization surgery in June of last yr. I just hadn’t ever seen the inner workings of how that process works — the way you acquire a surgeon, how the pre-ops go, and I used to be going through it, I assumed it might be cool to demystify it for anyone else who wants to do that process in the long run,” Bosco said. “Paramount+ got footage leading as much as the surgery, there’s some footage of the surgery, after which I spent a couple of month recovering, culminating in a face reveal party in L.A.”

Bosco said she went into the method eyes wide open and desired to disseminate her learnings. “There’s quite a lot of nuances to the recovery itself that you simply don’t really see or hear,” she said. “For most ladies, they disappear for 3 to 4 months, and so they come back like a wonderful swan emerging. This captures more of the nitty-gritty. For a couple of month, you appear like you’ve been in a automobile wreck — very, very swollen. It wasn’t crazy painful for me, however it was uncomfortable.”

The procedure will not be one-size-fits-all, and is decided by pre-operation conversations with surgeons in addition to one’s own feminine beauty ideals. “I discovered a surgeon where I already agreed with their work, and I knew it was something I used to be comfortable getting for myself,” Bosco said. “It’s necessary to seek out a surgeon that you simply’re not asking to exit of their wheelhouse. They’re good at what they do. I discovered anyone whose results I liked so much, and I let him take the wheel for essentially the most part.”

Insurance coverage, in addition to proximity — the surgeon had also operated on friends in Bosco’s network, and was only a five-minute drive away — also played a job in her selection.

She described the operation as “an à-la-carte of various facial procedures combined together,” and her own entailed having her brow reshaped, pieces of her chin removed, after which redefining her facial structure with fat transfers “to round things out a bit.”

“[Gender] dysphoria generally dials you into certain different signifiers,” Bosco said. “Working as a drag queen for five years has me zeroed in on the illusion of femininity and what subconsciously reads as feminine. We’re conditioned from birth to expect certain features from certain genders, and your brain just internalizes all of that. But there’s also some very beautiful cis women who’ve masculine features that work well. Every face is different.”

To date, the FFS has only moderately impacted her makeup artistry. “A number of the applying, quite a lot of the products and quite a lot of the shapes are just about the identical,” she said. “I just don’t must work as hard to get the shapes that I would like now, because quite a lot of them are already there. I needed to renegotiate eye shapes, because they did shave my brow bone on the side, to work out what looks like me essentially the most. It’s just taken a number of months to settle into this mug. And it’s working pretty much.”

The aim was a light-weight surgical touch that wouldn’t render her unrecognizable, provided that she built her profession along with her pre-operation face. “I really like a lady who goes in full witness protection with it — you may’t see any of the formers. But that’s not what I used to be seeking to do,” she said. “I’d already built a profession and brand based on how I look; I just desired to remix it just a little bit. During daytime, once I’m not wearing all this makeup, I can more safely and comfortably navigate the world.”