Despite coming from a place that “didn’t allow” him to be himself, 'Queer Eye' co-star Jonathan Van Ness says he has been able to maintain and consistently radiate self-confidence — even during the awkward stages of middle school. hereandnow:
He acknowledges his success is “such a dream,” but owes his stardom to just being himself.I think that there has been such a price put on fitting in,” he tells host Robin Young at his podcast taping at the Boston Museum of Science last week.And I think that people just want to see people that are real, be real and be rewarded for just having the courage to be themselves and not conform into this idea of what they think they're supposed to look like to become successful.
Although Van Ness says he has always been “a little obsessed” with figure skating, he didn’t start the sport earlier on in life because he was “running a business and raising two cats as a single father and, like, running a small salon in L.A.
“After doing hair for five, six days a week from the time I was 18 to 30, that just really opened my eyes to so many things that I never knew,” Van Ness says. He says starting his podcast came from the desire to “nurture” his curiosity.
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