HOUSE of the RISING SON

FOR ANYONE WHO knows Karamo Brown beyond his role as the warm, sensitive but strong, tear-inducing culture guru on Queer Eye, they know his most important role in life is dad.

Before the 38-year-old father of two became part of the Fab Five and showed us his smooth moves on this season of Dancing With the Stars, Karamo was introduced to the world as the first out Black gay man on reality TV, on MTV’s The Real World: Philadelphia in 2004. Following some admitted issues dealing with the pitfalls of fame after the show, he took a conscious step away from the spotlight and resumed his pre-TV career path in social work.

“I got addicted to drugs… and was like partying every night, wasting away, killing myself, basically, because I didn’t know how to deal with this sort of new reality fame,” he admitted to our sister, in 2017.