DEVINE!

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/waters/

John Waters - Sence of Cinema issue 28 (Greatest Directors)
In Pink Flamingos filth is primarily represented through Babs/Divine’s crimes, a theme explored further in Waters’ next film Female Trouble (1974). In this film Divine stars as Dawn Davenport, a career criminal whose life is represented from high school juvenile delinquency through to her death in the electric chair. Divine also plays a male character, Earl Peterson, to whom Divine falls pregnant after running away from home. The scene in which they have sex is carefully choreographed to appear as if Divine is fucking herself, even though a body double was used for this scene. When Dawn demands money from Earl, he exclaims, “go fuck yourself”. Due to Divine’s dual casting, Dawn had already “fucked herself”. Earl’s words reinforce just how “fucked” Dawn’s situation has become now she is now pregnant, broke and homeless. Dawn gives birth in a cheap hotel without medical assistance and, thereafter, supports herself and her daughter Taffy through money raised from petty crimes.