[14] When he was 18, Young began traveling to Nashville on the weekends, and he took up work as a go-go dancer and cocktail server on the local scene.

[6][16][23] He credits the Southern variety of drag he learned in Nashville with making him well-rounded, stating that it equipped him with diverse skills such as dancing and costume-making.

[35][36] Following criticism she received in the season's reunion episode for appearing more extroverted on social media than in person, Michaels learned about ambiversion.

[14] In August 2021, Michaels appeared on the ninth episode of the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

[37][38] As part of season 10's final challenge, Michaels and the other top four contestants wrote and recorded their own verses for RuPaul's song "American".

[45] The following month, she released a lip sync music video in which she performs Mark Ronson's "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart".

[47][48] Since the second half of 2018, Michaels has traveled around the Americas,[49][50][51] Asia,[49][50] Australia[52] and Europe[49][50][53] for several legs of Werq the World, and she appears in a docuseries about that tour.

[12][54] From January 2020, Michaels has been a staple of RuPaul's Drag Race Live!, a residency show in Las Vegas.

[56][59][60] In May 2020, Michaels participated in a live-streamed version of Werq the World to raise money for drag entertainers out of work due to the pandemic.

[5][14][16] After they broke up, he continued to focus on building muscle and returned to the drag scene, where his body drew criticism from others in the industry.

[14][28][68] In the months that followed the airing of Drag Race season 10, his workout routine temporarily fell by the wayside as he adjusted to life on tour.

[19][69][70] Young briefly dated fellow season 10 contestant Vanessa Vanjie Mateo while filming RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue.

In July 2020, Young deleted much of the content from his Kameron Michaels profiles on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, coincidentally on the day that RuPaul did the same; this generated discussion and speculation among Drag Race fans and followers.

[73][74][75] Young later stated that he had removed the posts during a period of mental distress, which he attributed to prolonged time spent home alone due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to reflection about the ongoing George Floyd protests.

[76] In July 2021, Young shared on social media that he had suffered a severe bout of depression in November 2020, stating:I barely ate.

[78] While starring in RuPaul's Drag Race Live!, Young dated fellow cast member André Hurtado, who died in December 2022.

[80] In early 2025, Young announced that he had become a certified personal trainer and launched a workout program called Kameron Michaels Fitness.