Matthew Ramos

Matthew Ramos was born in Bellflower, California to Luanne Aulenback, a registered nurse from Boston, and Benjamin Ramos, a nurse with Mexican roots. They divorced before Matthew was a year old, and his mother received primary custody. Matthew booked his first national print ad with Disney at a year old. Upon finding out, Matthew's father told his mother to "never make money off our child." His parents struggled to raise a child with creative strengths so Matthew spent hours in solitude creating, writing stories, singing and dancing in his room. He attended Catholic school through high school, attending Barnhart Elementary School and later Don Bosco Technical Institute, a private all boys high school run by Jesuit priests. There, he studied architecture. In college he studied abroad in Barcelona and gained an appreciation for culture and humanity. Matthew graduated with honors from the Mihaylo School of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton and moved to New York City right after with the intention to reinvent himself as an artist. His time was spent getting hired and fired from restaurants around Manhattan, reading, writing and soaking up the NYC drag scene with his muses, including Kitten Withawhip (now Bob the Drag Queen).