Jonathan Van Ness is trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle. The “Queer Eye” star, 35, admits he wasn’t the best at staying on top of his health before he was diagnosed with HIV 10 years ago.
He opened up about the diagnosis publicly in 2019. Van Ness tells Verywell Health‘s first-ever digital issue, the “Preventive Health” issue, “I wasn’t the most frequent preventive-doctor-visit queen.
But now, I take it very seriously—I even go to the dentist regularly, honey. “Growing up in the early ’90s, HIV was something I was very scared of,” he admits. “I had so much fear around it that I immediately dealt with my diagnosis—I got a doctor and went on medication, stat.” READ MORE: Jonathan Van Ness Takes Swipe At ‘Uneducated’ People Wanting Him To Explain ‘The Significance Of A F**king Pronoun’: ‘Don’t Anyone Ever Ask Me About That Again’ He adds of adopting new exercises and eating habits to prioritize his health: “Your health is something to prioritize—it is not something to put in the back of your mind.
Preventive health is chic, it’s cute, it’s gorgeous.” Van Ness continues, “When you are a recovering drug addict, living with HIV and a survivor of abuse—there were just a lot of other fires that I was putting out before focusing on food stuff.
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