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<\/p>\nGus Kenworthy\u2019s Publicist Is Making Him \u2018Cool It\u2019 With the Shirtlessness: LISTEN<\/b><\/p>\n
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Recently out gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy<\/a> said we might not be seeing too many more photos of him shirtless in the near future if his publicist gets their way.<\/p>\n Kenworthy spoke candidly about his exhibitionist tendencies with Michelangelo Signorile on his Sirius XM radio show on Tuesday:<\/a><\/p>\n “I need to cool it with that — according to my publicist,” Kenworthy said with a devilish smile while gesturing to his rep, sitting nearby. “But I don’t know, I guess I just felt like for so long, kind of pretending to be straight and lying in interviews, and everything that I was doing to try and fit in, I felt like I was like — I know it’s not actually<\/em> clothes — but I felt like I was covering myself, and covering myself, and covering myself, and really censoring myself. So when I got to the point where I was really telling people that I was gay<\/a> and I knew that I was going to come out publicly and stuff, it was sort of nice, and I guess freeing, to do something like that that was kind of off-brand for me, and something fun and I guess kind of objectifying, but still something that was fun and different.”<\/p>\n He added: “And I think I was insecure at that time. I mean, I was excited to come out but I was scared for what everyone was going to say and I knew that it was something that was happening very soon. And maybe, on a lower level, I guess I needed a little bit of attention.”<\/p>\n Kenworthy also responded to criticism he received about one of his Halloween costumes (not the mouse<\/a> or the cop<\/a>) in which he dressed up as a Native American<\/a>:<\/p>\n “I didn’t think for a second when I did it that I was being offensive,” he explained. “I would’ve never done anything that I thought was going to offend anybody.”<\/span><\/p>\n After he deleted the photo, Kenworthy Googled around, where he said he learned a lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n “I went on my phone and I Googled — like an idiot — but like, ‘Is it racist to dress up like a Native American?’ And, I guess the answer is yes… It’s sort of a vague line, because if you’re a character, then it’s not really racist but if you’re just, like, an Indian, then it’s sort of racist. But at the same point, even a character, like Pocahontas or someone, for example, is still sort of based on a racial stereotype and sort of a misinterpretation of a culture. I felt guilty that I had done it. I also feel that sometimes people do really overreact. It’s Halloween. It’s a night to dress-up. But I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable or feel like I was being rude or insensitive. So I took it down… I feel like, lesson learned and I won’t do it again.”<\/span><\/p>\n Listen to Kenworthy address his shirtlessness and his Halloween costumes, below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Gus Kenworthy’s Publicist Is Making Him ‘Cool It’ With the Shirtlessness: LISTEN<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\nRELATED: Gus Kenworthy is a God Among Olympians and Here are the Photos to Prove It<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n
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