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- The Dupont Twins, I have a question for you guys.
You've just started working with Haus Laboratories.
Is it so surreal for you guys to be working with Gaga?
- Yeah, it was really crazy.
Like as soon as we got the job, it was like,
they didn't tell us what it was for,
and they called us and were like
"You need to be sitting to be down. Like
And we were like "What?" - The entire block heard
us screaming. - Like,
- It was out of control - we screamed so loud.
It was more surreal actually being there
and being, like, "She's right there.
"Like, oh my God."
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- So growing up you guys were fans of Gaga I presume?
Like you said-- - Of course.
- Fan is an understatement. - Yeah.
- We were stans for sure. - Highkey, out of control
Gaga fans.
- People used to make fun of us just
for even wearing Gaga T-shirts
and going to the Gaga concert,
and I'm like "Really?
Call Gaga now"
because you guys are back home
in Connecticut, still working at the gas station,
and here we are.
- Hanging out with Gaga.
- [Twins] Right.
- Did stanning Gaga help you come to your own identities?
We hear that a lot, right? - Yes.
- Yeah, absolutely.
I mean we always knew that we were different for sure.
It took a little bit to kind of grow into the confidence.
Like, most of the time we wouldn't even react to people,
even if they were throwing stuff at us,
calling us names, even physical assault,
we just honestly wouldn't react 'cause it was just,
And that would just make us wanna
do everything we do even more.
Beat the sh*t out of me, but I'm still gonna be me.
You can't take that away from me no matter what you do.
- So you guys experienced physical violence growing up?
- Oh yeah. - It was--
- We got death threats.
It was like, crazy people showed up
at our house with knives.
They showed up to school with knives.
Their parents would do the same things.
If there was a school event, they'd be like
"Oh, aren't those faggots that you make fun of?"
- It was really, really bad growing up.
- It was a lot of the administration
that would always make excuses for the other kids
and then tell us that we were asking for it
by the way we dress.
It was just very crazy, and we just were never comfortable.
And my mom was there every single day fighting for us.
She's gotten on the school bus.
Like, she's literally like--
- Ride or die, she was there. - Ride or die.
- Still to this day. - If she could be a gay man,
she would, like-- (laughing)
- I mean how does it feel now to have overcome that
and have this career that both of you are establishing?
- I mean we started doing a lot of modeling
when we were still in high school.
Like it got to the point where we were--
- In New York so much that--
- They had to give us credit to be working outside of school
because we were not gonna graduate,
so for us to be at this point where we knew
that we were gonna get in what we've dreamed to be doing,
obviously we have so many goals that we still wanna get to,
but where we are right now is like...
and I know there's so many people out there
that have so many dreams to get to where we are now.
And we are just so grateful.
Like it is literally changing the way people treat us
and people like us, and even people that aren't like us,
just people that are different are looked at
in a different way in general.
Like-- - Exposing a lot.
- It's exposing a lot, and it's just showing
And, - No matter what
anyone tells you - You can be
on the cover of Vogue, not that we've gotten that yet,
but Anna. - Yes!
- Manifest. - Call me, Anna, like.
(laughing)
Yeah we will get that,
and that will be another huge milestone in our career,
so hopefully that happens really soon.
- Do you guys think the modeling industry
and the cosmetic industry are doing
a good enough job representing the queer community?
- Um. - Um, no.
(laughing)
- I mean-- - Let's get into it.
- Yes, I mean I've worked in makeup for, like, years,
and I still do.
And growing up, we were obsessed with makeup
and obviously fashion.
Like there was not a single time
where we were not running around with Vogue in our hands.
All the 90s supermodels, this and that,
but that has been such the standard for so long.
And people have not been willing to look outside of that,
but even with the Gaga campaign, we're so blessed
to have that platform.
It's gonna shift the way that people look
at the beauty industry,
but I feel like we're just getting started.
We're at the really, very start of where we have to be.
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