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On all of my body of queer eye, it's the only time where the hero looked worse when I was done.

I was like one wrong thing away from like losing everything. And there are times where I'm like

snappy and short

and I need to work on it. And it's a process that I've been working on for like 37 years.

My guest today is a shaper of culture, a queer icon, a three times New York Times bestseller,

a podcaster, award-winning TV personality,

a business magnate who started their own sustainable hair care brand.

I'm running at a breath. There are so many achievements.

And according to their own website, an HIV-positive, non-binary truth-teller,

determined to make this world a better, more equitable, yet funnier place. They are, of course, Jonathan Van Ness, or JVN for those in the know. They grew up in a

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