Queer Eye star 'bleached skin as a child'

Tuesday 18th June 2019 17:31 EDT
 

Queer Eye star Tan France says he bleached his skin as a child so he could be seen as "more attractive".

"When I was five, I remember thinking, 'God, I'd give anything to be white," he writes in his new book Naturally Tan.

The 36-year-old, who grew up in Doncaster and is of Pakistani heritage, says that he "worried constantly" that "bad things would happen" to him because of his skin. He says he now knows it is "beautiful".

Tan is Queer Eye's fashion expert and, like his Queer Eye friends, spends the majority of his time each episode sharing messages of self-love and body positivity with the show's guests - although admittedly with more tough love than the rest of the crew.

But as a child Tan says he wasn't as confident in his own skin as he is now. That's why as a 10-year-old he stole his cousin's bleaching cream.


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