What No One Tells You About Coming Out

Made It Out

Made It Out Media

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Mal sits down with the beauty editor of Cosmopolitan magazine to compare their experiences coming out and how it affected their body image, style, and relationship to themselves. Follow our guest @ebethgillette, follow the show @madeitout and follow Mal @malglowenke. Philly (June 4th) – ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/69cab63bcd2c3d932ba08681/69cab7f93b692430d9472ba1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Boston (June 6th) –[goog_979332955] ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/69c6fd8f34a57a81790ab421/69c6fe1f37e9872ad5b78415⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NYC (June 21st) –[goog_979332958] ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/69c6e40b6a90e5a3db15f10f/69c6e4dae5d150370eda2e3f⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Plus, don’t miss the YouHaul or YouGhost card game. Perfect for move-ins, breakups, and girls’ nights! Now available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ :) 👉 Subscribe, like & comment to support queer content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.3	As proud partner of the England's teams, EEE has support and guidance to help build all our boys up on and off the pitch. Search EEE Yes, Boys. Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Made It Out. Today I am here with the beauty editor of Cosmo, Beth Gillette. And I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I couldn't be more excited. I love what we're talking about today.
1:11.7	Same. We're talking about body image and how it kind of relates to your queerness.
1:16.1	Totally.
1:16.9	And I wrote something about this. I can't remember what publication for, but it was basically the exact opposite of your story.
1:25.3	Right. So I'm really, really excited to kind of just dive in.
1:28.7	Yeah.
1:36.4	Where did you grow up? What's your background? And then kind of what was your queer journey?
1:41.2	Oh, my favorite story. Okay, I grew up in Ohio in a really small town. Like, when I explained my small town, I always say, like, my parents, like, went to the same high school that I went to, like, there's, like, 2,500 people. My family home is, like, my, it was owned by my, it was bought brand new by my great grandparents. And then my grandparents bought it from them, then my parents bought it from my grandparents.
2:03.6	And my parents still live in the house.
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