Kim Petras on Finding Success After Being Told She'd 'Never Make It': 'Look at Me Now, Bitches!'
Kim Petras.Photo: Jason Al-Taan Kim Petrasis rewriting the pop-star playbook. After more than a decade of hustling, the pop singer-songwriter notched her first Billboard No. 1 last month, with theSam Smithcollab “Unholy,” making Petras the first known transgender artist totop the Hot 100 chart. The feat “is a huge middle finger to all the [record] labels that were like, ‘We don’t know how to market you,’ and to everyone who doubted me and said I couldn’t achieve this because of my gender identity,” says Petras, who released her latest single, “If Jesus Was a Rockstar,” on Friday....