Rupaul’s Drag Race winner Bebe Zahara Benet started her career as a male model on the runways of France. Yes, a male model. During a show, when some of the female models failed to appear, Bebe – or Kudi, as the male Bebe was known then - was asked to step in as a lady. Bebe Zahara Benet emerged. Two years later, Kudi, er, Bebe, won the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar.”