A biography for Jonathan Van Nesshasn’t been written yet.
“I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.”
“I'm really about body positivity and self-love, and I will definitely push the boundary with a pink midriff-baring top.”
“One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.”
“I like people too much. I really do.”
“We focus so much on our relationships with other people, and beauty, for me, is about facilitating your relationship with yourself.”
“If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.”
“Confidence is sexy.”
“I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.”
“I think I've been in a lot of really uncomfortable situations, and I think when you're in uncomfortable situations, it kind of polishes you up a little. It shines you up.”
“You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.”
“Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.”
“I think that I'm, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of 'Queer Eye' or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people.”
“I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.”
“When you've been on Instagram and Twitter long enough, you know how mean people can be.”
“It's nice to have a safe place to have a conversation going; whether it's a friend or family member, you can use 'Queer Eye' as an entry point to have a conversation that's meaningful.”
“I'm really big on the gym and yoga. I'm at the gym at least six days. That is just getting there and creating those endorphins and sweating. And that routine also keeps me grounded in spite of whatever my life looks like.”
“I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.”
“I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.”
“How you take care of yourself is how the world sees you.”