We are so excited to tune into beauty guru Trinny London’s chart-topping podcast Fearless, to hear Jonathan Van Ness, known for hit Netflix show Queer Eye and being the founder of JVN hair, talk about homophobic fear, teenage trauma and compulsive spending. Some highlights from the show below:
Fear: “If I go for dinner in Texas, I don’t wear heels. I don’t wear heels in case I need to run. My job, time, and sense of wellbeing is robbed from me a lot.”
Trauma: “When I was 17, I was doing sex work to support my drug habit and I had a much older man take me into a room in his house. In this room, he pulled a gun out from under his bed and said he has committed a crime and leaving town the next day. I realized in the moment that my life flashed before my eyes. I knew this wasn’t going to end okay. Do I want to get shot with no money or do I want to get the money? I lunged for the money, gave him a little push, took the money and did a full front dive roll out of this window.”
Weakness: “I’ve worked so hard, and I have overcome so much. Sometimes I feel like I cant even enjoy how far I have come, because there is so much pain. I don’t want to look back at this time in myself like wow girl, you couldn’t even enjoy it because you were so stressed. I think that’s my biggest weakness.”
“My biggest weakness is putting so much pressure on myself to fix systemic things that I know alone I cannot fix.I live in Texas, we’ve had so many really intense anti-Trans bills that have passed the house this year. Sometimes I actually don’t feel safe in Texas.”
Motherhood: “The idea of having children that don’t understand their own privilege, is a non-starter. In LA, going to a school with racial diversity isn’t a thing. I am looking for economic diversity. You either have this throughout your childhood or you don’t. It is important to me that my kids see that and have access from that from an early age.”
“I’m not working at this point in my life because I need a wage – i am beyond that point now – I have created generational wealth for myself and my family, so it is like what drives you? Still being connected to that idea of drive, when i had my first kid, that to me was such a telling point. I had Grey, and I never felt more ambitious in my life. I was like get me out of this bed, as now I have something to work for.”
Addiction onto sobriety: “My main goals in my 20s were to not die as a result of an overdose, and to not ask my parents for money.”
“I grew up around sobriety, my stepdad was sober for 27 years when he died. I would be colouring colour books waiting for him to get out of CA meetings.”
Compulsive spending: “If I am feeling down, stressed, or out of control, I’d rather much sit with a new necklace or with a bag. I notice after I do it I don’t really feel good about it.”
Listen to the full episode here.
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