Karamo Brown is a producer and actor best known for his works like Queer Eye and Lean. Karamo Brown is an American actor, TV host and activist. He began his career from the MTV reality show The Real World in 2004 and gained attention from the public as he openly came out on the show as a gay black actor.
Facts About Karamo Brown & Family Details
Karamo Brown is also the founder of 6in10.org, a non-profit providing tailored mental health support for Black gay and bisexual men that will contribute to eliminate the six-in-ten HIV rate.
He is the culture expert on the Netflix’s popular reality show, Queer Eye premiered in 2018.
Karamo Brown has shown through his actions how one can become a good parent and a human being as he shared his life experience. He has two sons and his life story is really inspiring once you read it. He has shared, “I came out at 16 years old as a proud gay man. My last girlfriend in high school when I was 15 – became pregnant with my child but did not tell me. She moved away, and I never had contact with her again; remember this is before social media.”
He learned about his child after ten years when he received a subpoena for child support on his doorstep and said, “I was confused, sad, angry, and weirdly excited to be a dad, but felt lost nonetheless. We were both kids and don’t blame her for the decision she made because the choice was not hers, it was the adults around us.”
He also shared how he quit and never looked back on drug and alochol for his son, Jason after attaining full custody of him. He also adopted Jason’s half-brother, Chris and took legal guardianship of him in 2011. He has talked about parenting and how hard it is saying, “Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves.”
Karamo uses his platform and shared his story to inspire people saying, “My hope is always that they start to believe that the life they want is possible for them because I am living the life I’ve always dreamed. In our country being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent… you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So if I can do it…you can too!”
Karamo Brown has shared a series of photos with his rarely seen family during Thanksgiving and he wrote, “Reflecting on what I’m so thankful for today; my kids and their mom, my mom, my sisters, my childhood bestfriends, my boyfriend, the Fab 5 but most importantly YOU! Yes you. I wake up filed with purpose because of you. I hope that you feel seen and loved. I just wanted to say thank you to you and every person in these photos.”
Karamo Brown’s calm and cool look comes from a very rough and hard times he faced during his childhood as he shared how he felt embarrassed growing up explaining, “Even today, talking to the producers and talking to people, everytime they referred to me as Afro-Latino or Latino, I get very uncomfortable, still to this day…it’s very new.”
He has shared that he didn’t want to repeat the cycle of unconscious and internalized racism with his two kids and he tells them their skin is gorgeous and dark is beautiful. He said, “I want to make sure they hear it. And I realize, it’s important the language I have in my home. I no longer allow other family members..or anyone who makes comments to my kids and me to walk away. It’s important for me to be respectful of my family, especially those who are older, but to also say 'This is why that is hurtful, this is why that is damaging and this is why I’m hoping we can talk about why you think it’s OK to say that, and how you changing that could actually make us a stronger people and family.'”
Karamo Brown Net Worth Details
Karamo Brown has an estimated net worth of $4 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. He is mainly known as the tv host and reality personality. Some of his TV series are The Real World: Philadelphia, Real World/ Road Rules Challenge, Queer Eye, The DL Chronicles, Bethenny, Where the Beats Are!, Room Stories, Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and more. Asides from hosting, he has also acting credits in films like Visible: The LGBTQ Caribbean Diaspora and Dr, Drew on Call.
Karamo Brown has worked as a host and segment producer for several shows like OWN Show, Huffington Post Live, MTV’s Are You The One: Second Chances, a Family Advocate contributor and also as a cast member of TV One’s hit docs series The Next 5.
He has also worked with the White House under the Obama Administration as invited to create and legislation to support LGBTQ youth and their allies after school hours.
However, Karamo has shared his recent experience with racism while filming in Texas for sixth season of Queer Eye. He said, “this was the first time I’ve ever had people tell me after ‘I hated you.’ It’s because no one has ever challenged them when it comes to their emotional or mental health. These individuals have never been challenged by someone who is Black.”
Karamo Brown Dating History
Karamo Brown has been dating Carlos Medel as they made their relationship Instagram official. Brown posted a photo of them and wrote, “Me & Carlos.” According to LinkedIn, Carlos is a photographer and art director at Chile Bravo. His Instagram is private and seems to be comfortable out of the spotlight.
The Queer star, Brown was engaged to his ex-boyfriend, Ian Jordan in 2018. He proposed to Jordan with a David Yurman ring after dating for eight years. They postponed their wedding due to pandemic and all but they broke up in 2020 and the reality star himself announced his split from Jordan on The Ellen Degenres Show saying, “My fiancé and I, we were together for 10 years and we broke up about three and a half months ago. Luckily there was no cheating. We’re good friends. It’s very nice when it’s I still love you and support you and I want him to be happy, he wants me to be happy, but yeah, no more wedding.”
His ex-boyfriend, Ian Jordan worked as an assistant director for shows like The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Raven’s Home and as a classic coordinator for TV shows like All That, Zoey 101 and Drake & Josh.