"Queer Eye" star Karamo Brown learned he had fathered a child in 2004 after appearing on MTV's "The Real World." Brown was the first Black, openly-gay cast member on the show.
"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," Brown told Parents.com. "She moved away, and I never had contact with her again; remember this is before social media."
Brown said that when he received a subpoena for child support in the mail, he learned he had fathered a child.
"I was confused, sad, angry, and weirdly excited to be a dad, but felt lost nonetheless," Brown said. "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."
Brown then took full custody of his son Jason, now 24, and shortly afterward adopted Jason's younger half-brother, Christian, now 20.