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TikTok Star Chris Olsen Shares His Coming Out Journey
Chris Olsen makes it look easy.
The TikToker slayed his look connected the reddish carpet for the 2022 People's Choice Awards Dec. 6 keeping it cleanable successful a brace of achromatic formal slacks and matching jacket with a achromatic t-shirt and achromatic sneakers.
And erstwhile he's not hitting up Hollywood's hottest grant shows, Olsen is entertaining his 8.2 cardinal TikTok followers, showcasing household members and celebrated pals specified arsenic vocalist Meghan Trainor, JoJo Siwa and Ashley Tisdale. However, the 24-year-old besides has different benignant of ngo with his videos—one that volition let others to travel successful his footsteps and beryllium retired and arrogant arsenic their authentic selves.
"My individuality volition already beryllium thing that tin beryllium of controversy, depending connected who the assemblage is," Olsen told E! News Oct. 11. "So 1 of my passive-active missions successful having this level is to effort to interruption that down and bring normalcy to this identity."
He's already helped countless fans and opened the eyes of many followers.
"I've gotten DMs successful the past," Olsen shared, "that say, 'I travel from someplace successful Middle America, I person ne'er truly travel successful interaction with anyone successful the LGBTQ+ community, but seeing your videos truly opened and changed my caput astir it—because I'm consistently told, 'These radical are antithetic than us. These radical are not idiosyncratic to beryllium followed. These radical are not relation models.'"
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In summation to his online beingness helping to observe the LGBTQ+ community, the Broken Dreams histrion besides marked a large milestone in his idiosyncratic life. Olsen celebrated five years of sobriety connected Sept. 28 and took to TikTok to share a bid of idiosyncratic and nonrecreational accomplishments since becoming sober—finding fame connected TikTok, going backmost to assemblage and getting certified arsenic a idiosyncratic trainer.
Olsen explained that he stayed sober done his "bad interruption up" with TikToker Ian Paget. (The exes confirmed their split to E! News successful January.)
Nearly a twelvemonth later, Olsen is focusing connected his career, teasing an a cappella mentation of his and Meghan Trainor's opus "Made You Look," penning on Instagram Dec. 5, "CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY! MADE YOU LOOK (A CAPPELLA) COMING TO YOU FRIDAY 12/9."
Watch the 2022 People's Choice Awards tonight, Dec. 6, astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC and E!.
