Queer Eye's Tan France Reveals That He Started Whitening His Skin At The Age Of 10 Years

Tan France knows the power of beauty.

As Weird eyeA resident resident of fashion, the 36-year-old understands that clothes can have many positive effects. At the same time, the love of self and the love of your body can have a huge impact.

And though he may seem to be a cool and confident expert on the small screen, Tan will open on his own path to self-acceptance in a new memory. In the end, he did not always like his appearance.

According to Tan, he had a history of skin whitening products that he stole from his cousin at the age of 10.

"I did not have the bullets to tell him that I had taken it, because, since then, I'm ashamed of the fact that I've succumbed to the pressure," writes it in Naturally Tan via the refinery 29. "I kept this little secret to myself, I only used it at night, before going to bed, when no one else would catch me. I tell you it hurts. "

He continued: "The importance of being pale is very bizarre.When I was five, I remember thinking:" My God, I would give n & # 39; It does not matter what to be white, I just want to be white, I want to be white, I want to be white, I've been so conditioned to think that if you were white, you'd be automatically more attractive. "

According to Tan, he also spent part of his childhood dreaming of waking up. "I was constantly worried that if I went out of the house, bad things would happen to me," he said in the brief available now.

Today, the fashion designer and TV personality is more than confident – and proud – of who he is.

In his memoir, Tan reveals how an Englishman raised in a traditionally religious home has become a fashion icon – and the first openly gay South Asian man on television – simply by being Naturally Tan.

"If you ask me what I prefer in my appearance, I will say my skin," he writes. "I think my skin color is beautiful, and by the age of 10, I could never have imagined that my skin is beautiful, and I'm willing to bet that most non-whites have thought the same thing. "