Michelle Visage honored best friend and business partner Annie DuPont on her 40th birthday with a deeply personal tribute on Instagram. She called DuPont “one-of-a-kind” and made clear that the best years are still to come.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race judge posted the message Tuesday, looking back on eleven years of friendship. Visage didn’t hold back.
“YOU, my bestie are the real deal,” Visage wrote in the tribute. “Look how much we’ve gotten into over the past 11 years and we’ve only just begun.”
The message was warm and specific. Visage told DuPont that turning 40 is the beginning, not the finish line. She pointed to all the experiences DuPont will have for the first time alongside her daughter Minnie. Minnie is also Visage’s goddaughter. That makes this milestone feel even more personal for both women.
Visage described DuPont as her “partner in crime” and her best friend. She also called her a sister and a business partner. The tribute captured the kind of layered friendship that doesn’t fit neatly into categories. These two have built something genuinely rare over more than a decade.
She was honest about the cost of the friendship too. Late nights. Wild moments. The happy chaos that comes with deep, lasting closeness.
“You are worth every single crazy moment,” Visage wrote. “You are worth every single night of not enough sleep. You are so much more than you even know and I can’t wait until you see that for yourself.”
That’s the kind of affirmation most people feel but rarely say out loud, let alone post publicly. Visage went all in.
She closed the tribute with a heartfelt roll call of the roles DuPont plays in her life: “my AnnieBil, my business partner, my sister, my best friend, my goddaughter’s mummy.”
Visage is best known for her long run on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the beloved competition series. She’s also a singer and performer who’s been a fixture in entertainment for years. But in this tribute, the personal took center stage completely. She and DuPont have maintained both a close friendship and a business partnership over more than a decade. That combination is rarer than most people think, and Visage seems to know exactly how lucky she is.
Forty can be a complicated birthday for a lot of people. Visage chose to frame it as nothing but a beginning. She told DuPont that her dream “has just begun to be realized” and expressed genuine excitement about everything still ahead. The message wasn’t nostalgic. It was forward-looking from start to finish.
There’s something refreshing about a celebrity using her platform to lift up a close friend on a big birthday. No product placement, no brand tie-in. One woman used her reach to tell another that she was seen, valued, and heading into the best chapter of her life.
That’s a good message for a Tuesday.
