The Untold Truth Of Gigi Gorgeous

Long before she dove into the world where the phrase "like and subscribe" reigns supreme, Gigi Gorgeous was literally diving into swimming pools— and she was good at it. As The New York Times wrote, "Around 9, she 'got obsessed' with diving after spending a summer at gymnastics camp." For the next few years, diving became a passion; entering competitions, she rose to the top of the sport in her age class, becoming a nationally ranked champion in the process. 

"I loved how graceful it was, how strong everyone looked," she told Refinery29 of her attraction to diving. "Everyone's bodies were perfect." When she took first-place honors at a national competition in her native Canada, she found herself on a competitive path that, had she pursued it, could have taken her to the Olympics. Yet she decided to quit the sport when she was 15.

"I didn't know how to socialize," she told The New York Times of how competitive diving had taken over her life. "I wasn't able to date, I felt like I was missing out on life. When I stopped diving, I started living."

In 2008, Gigi Gorgeous posted her first video on YouTube: a makeup tutorial. In the years that passed, she accumulated legions of fans, who followed her as she embarked on her journey to superstardom. In fact, as of early 2021, she boasted more than 2.8 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, which features a ton of videos.

Gigi Gorgeous got her start on YouTube sharing beauty content, and she continues to share beauty content. That being said, the topics explored in her videos run the gamut. She's participated in a "corset challenge" with drag queen Violet Chachki, attended a Washington, DC event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, and attempted a "hot sauce challenge." She also gives viewers a glimpse into her personal life, be it talking about her dental surgery, introducing fans to her mother-in-law, or answering viewers' questions about her wedding.

Those YouTube videos have also made her a good chunk of change. According to an estimate of her wealth found on the Celebrity Net Worth website, she's worth a cool $3 million.

Gigi Gorgeous became a celebrity by opening up her life to others. In 2017, she took that even further when her life journey formed the basis of a documentary film, Gigi Gorgeous: This Is Everything. 

The film, noted its official synopsis, was directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple, and "provides a raw and revealing look into a life that never compromises happiness, and spotlights a family's unwavering and unconditional love for a child." As the film's subject told DuJour, coming up with footage for Kopple to utilize was not an issue, given that Gorgeous had been filming herself since age 19. "So I had years and years of footage and when YouTube Red and Barbara Kopple got involved, I said, 'Have it all,'" she explained.

Watching the finished film alongside her father, she admitted, was a "really special" experience. "Barbara likes to say that my father and I 'transitioned together,' which we totally did," she added. "He had to totally alter the way he thought about his child; the name, the pronouns, and all that, which you see in the film. I think the message got across and I was so happy about that."

Of all her myriad videos, one of Gigi Gorgeous's most popular is the 2016 clip where she came out as lesbian. "I would not have seen falling in love with a girl coming from a mile away, but now that I'm here ... I feel so happy," she shared in the video.

Gorgeous came out after she started dating designer and activist Nats Getty. In 2018, Gorgeous took to Instagram to announce that they got engaged. "I'm not attracted to men anymore," she told The Advocate in 2019. "I don't think I ever really was." The two tied the knot in July 2019, with Gorgeous sharing footage of their wedding on YouTube. "Marrying the love of my life was more of a fairytale than I could've ever imagined and I'm so excited I get to share this moment with you all," she wrote in the caption. 

In January 2021, Getty came out as transgender and non-binary. In a video for Gorgeous's YouTube channel, Getty shared, "I'm allowing myself time with my new body to decide what pronouns best suit me. During this time, some people refer to me as she/her and I don't find it insulting because I am still on my journey of figuring out what pronouns work for me."

When Gigi Gorgeous appears in headlines, it's usually because of something she says or does in a YouTube video or on social media. That was not the case in 2016 when she made news because of something that was done to her. 

As she wrote in an emotional Instagram post, she was "detained and held at the Dubai airport for over five hours," describing the experience as "one of the scariest moments of my entire life and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. How you can be denied entry somewhere just because of who you are is seriously disgusting and also very scary. This further proves the need for CHANGE."

She subsequently told TMZ that an immigration officer said, "I was told you are transgender. You cannot come into the country." However, immigration officials offered a different explanation, claiming that her passport photo and identification information identified her as a male. Gorgeous, however, insisted that isn't true, and that her passport identified her as Gigi Loren. Gorgeous said she received an apology letter after the incident, but as she told DuJour, it isn't so easy to forgive and forget. 

It would seem as though fate and fashion brought Nats Getty and Gigi Gorgeous together. Speaking with Variety in 2020, the YouTuber said they clicked when they both accompanied Nats's brother, designer August Getty, on a trip to Paris for Fashion Week. 

In her memoir, He Said, She Said (via ABC News), Gorgeous wrote, "We wound up spending every day together. Not just every day, but really every moment. Which was a lot more time than we'd ever spent together before." And apparently, Nats wasn't exactly coy about expressing their attraction. "Every day in Paris, I kept saying, 'I have a crush on you. I'm obsessed with you,'" Nats told Variety. "I kept saying it until she believed it."

And their relationship has been going strong ever since they hit it off at Fashion Week in 2016. "Honestly, I feel as if it's just meeting the right person," Gorgeous shared in He Said, She Said. "At the end of the day, it's all about the connection." It probably doesn't hurt when that connection happens in one of the most romantic cities on the planet.

Gigi Gorgeous sprang to fame by sharing beauty makeovers and makeup tutorials on YouTube. However, this beauty knowledge has been hard won; she's had her missteps along the way, as she divulged in an interview with MTV News. 

Asked to recall her "worst beauty mistake" after the interviewer referenced an incident in which Kylie Jenner once accidentally burned off the eyelashes of a friend, Gorgeous revealed she had a "worse" experience that could top that.  

"When I was younger, I thought my eyebrows were too light," she began. "I'm a natural blonde. I dyed them and they ended up being so dark and it was so f**king embarrassing. I was humiliated. I didn't end up going to school that day. I said, 'Mom, I'm not going to school. There's no way. You can't let anybody see me like this. My eyebrows are too dark.' So I ended up bleaching them back." Talk about an eyebrow-raising experience.