Carson Kressley: ...that success is just figuring it out along the way

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Our guest on this episode is Carson Kressley—Emmy Award-winning TV personality, style expert, fashion designer, and New York Times best-selling author.

Carson became a household name in 2003 as one of the original “Fab Five” on Bravo’s groundbreaking Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, revolutionizing the way we think about style, confidence, and self-expression. Since then, he’s graced our screens on Dancing with the Stars, Celebrity Apprentice, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Traitors, and many more.

Beyond television, Carson is also a celebrated author, with books like Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big? A Cheeky Guide to Feeling Sexier in Your Own Skin & Unleashing Your Personal Style, helping readers embrace fashion with humor and heart.

We loved this conversation so much that we’re bringing it back! Tune in as Carson shares his journey, style wisdom, and some unforgettable behind-the-scenes stories.

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0:14.8	Thank you. Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:29.8	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:31.3	Our guest on this episode is Emmy Award-winning TV personality, style expert, fashion designer, and New York Times best-selling author,
0:40.5	Carson Cresley.
0:41.5	Carson Cresley has been a familiar name and face to many of us since he burst onto the scene in 2003
0:47.3	as one of the Fab Five on Bravo TV's groundbreaking show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
0:53.3	And since then, he's been on dancing with
0:55.3	the stars, celebrity apprentice, Rupal's Drag Race, and many other shows. Carson's books include
1:01.0	The Women's Style Guide. Does this book make my butt look big? A cheeky guide to feeling sexier
1:07.2	in your own skin and unleashing your personal style. Carson, thank you so much for joining us.
1:13.2	Oh, I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks for having me. We all know you from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,
1:18.9	but tell us about your background and how you came to be on that show in the first place.
1:24.0	Well, it was kind of just, it was kind of a happy accident and something I had never planned on, but I was working for Ralph Lauren, and I've always loved clothes and fashion and horses and that whole world.
1:41.8	When I had moved to New York City, I originally started working for the U.S. Equestrian Federation,
1:46.5	which at that time was called the American Horse Shows Association.
1:50.3	And after doing that for a couple of years, I was like, hmm, I would love to buy some shoes.
1:54.7	But I can't really do that with a nonprofit job.
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