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Jonathan Van Ness

Jonathan Van Ness

American Entertainer

Born: Mar 28, 1987

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Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care. Jonathan Van Ness

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I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met. Jonathan Van Ness

I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn't like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don't knock me down as much as they used to. Jonathan Van Ness

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I wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it'll happen. Jonathan Van Ness

It's nice to have a safe place to have a conversation going; whether it's a friend or family member, you can use 'Queer Eye' as an entry point to have a conversation that's meaningful. Jonathan Van Ness

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I think that I'm, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of 'Queer Eye' or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people. Jonathan Van Ness

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I'm obsessed with gymnastics. It's like my football. And I like to watch women's gymnastics a little bit more than men's because I live for balance beam. Jonathan Van Ness

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I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut. Jonathan Van Ness

From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something. Jonathan Van Ness

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When I moved to L.A. in my early twenties, I was growing my hair. Then, when I was 25, I cut it off and was like, 'Oh no, I think I'm a long hair person until I go bald!' Jonathan Van Ness

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I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger. Jonathan Van Ness

I'm a big proponent of all love winning and love just being fab. Jonathan Van Ness

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Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.' Jonathan Van Ness

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I always wanted to play with people's hair. I was really into 'The Golden Girls' and how big their hair was. I always had Barbies and Ken dolls, whose hair I wanted to play with and was always styling. I was very lucky - I never had to wonder what I was passionate about. I've always known that I'm really, really passionate about grooming. Jonathan Van Ness

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Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade. Jonathan Van Ness

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In service industries, we can be so people-pleaser-y that you don't know how to set your own boundaries. Jonathan Van Ness

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Getting married is a good time to revaluate all of your relationships. Have you had the same haircut since seventh grade? Have you found products that work for your skin? You need time to experiment. Jonathan Van Ness

I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light. Jonathan Van Ness

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I think that the ideal of men's physiques in general, gay or straight, is one of the most under-talked-about things ever. Ninety-five percent of these bodies that we're seeing, that we're striving so hard to look like, are genetically engineered - like, let's be very clear. Jonathan Van Ness

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