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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Harrison

Queer Eye’s Tan France reflects on using bleach on his skin aged nine

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Queer Eye star Tan France has reflected on using bleach to make his skin lighter when he was just nine years old.

The fashion designer, who is fronting a new documentary about colourism, had previously written about bleaching his skin in his 2019 autobiography Naturally Tan: A Memoir, which detailed his experience of growing up in Doncaster in the Eighties and being subject to racist abuse.

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