"Jonathan Van Ness (he/they) is a beauty expert, the founder of , host of the podcast Getting Better With Jonathan Van Ness, a co-host of Queer Eye (the 10th and final season dropped on Netflix last month), and currently on tour with Hot and Heated, a comedy show. Below, Van Ness - a figure skating superfan - weighs in on which athletes to pay attention to at the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games."
"So I've been a mega, mega, mega, mega fan since then. My first foray onto the ice was when I was 6, and in my mind, I was Kristi Yamaguchi. This boy came up to me and body-checked me as hard as he could while I was trying to skate. I got a fat lip; there was blood everywhere. And then I was scared to skate."
Jonathan Van Ness is a beauty expert, host of the podcast Getting Better With Jonathan Van Ness, a co-host of Queer Eye, and a touring comedian with Hot and Heated. Van Ness became a passionate figure skating fan after first seeing Kristi Yamaguchi at the 1992 Albertville Games and later followed Tonya Harding, Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, and Katarina Witt during the 1994 Lillehammer Games. Van Ness first skated at six, suffered a facial injury that kept them off the ice, and returned to skating around age thirty after meeting coach Eliot Halverson. Van Ness describes skating as physically demanding and frightening, noting the novel muscle use and the blade feeling six to seven inches off the ground.
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