Jeffree Star called the 'Joe Exotic of makeup' as fans compare cosmetics mogul to 'Tiger King' star
March 20 saw the release of 'Tiger King' on Netflix, a documentary following Joe Exotic, a zoo owner, amid a cast of eccentric characters, uncovering ugly truths from the underworld of big cat breeding. It released much fanfare with a lot of celebrities, including Kim Kardashian tweeting about being excited to watch the series.
A couple of episodes in, we could see Joe Exotic as this person who projects himself bigger than he is. He is gay, flamboyant and a redneck, by one's own admission. We also see a 'throuple' wedding between him and his two husbands, John Finlay and Travis Maldonado. Throughout the first couple of episodes, it was established that none of these two men were gay and in one of the episodes, Joe Exotic revealed that he has always loved straight men.
Now, viewers who have watched the documentary have made an observation within which they are drawing similarities between Joe Exotic and makeup mogul Jeffree Star. Star went from rags to riches and throughout his journey to the top, he has been embroiled in a lot of controversies. Right from his racist background to his love for straight men, it's all out in the open.
In the documentary, we see Joe Exotic launching a slew of explosive videos attacking his enemy, Carole Baskin. If you're someone who's followed Star, you'd know he has made explosive videos about his friends turned foes, the ones against fellow makeup community members Laura Lee, Manny Guttierez and the most recent drama he had with makeup artist and blogger James Charles.
This is not the only similarity. Star has agreed to an affinity towards 'certain type of men' in the past. Judging by his ex-boyfriend of many years, Nathan Schwandt, it's easy to deduce that he liked straight men. Throughout the course of their relationship, fans have always mentioned that Nathan is straight and is with Jeffree for the perks. However, Jeffree never cared about these talks and the two had a great relationship for years during which he showered Nathan with crazy expensive gifts.
Nathan would also appear in a lot of videos with Jeffree on the latter's YouTube channel and fans would notice that Nathan is 'baked' in most of the videos speculating that marijuana is one of the driving factors of their relationship and that Jeffree uses it to make him stay. In 'Tiger King' it was revealed that Travis Maldonado was addicted to meth and Joe would use it to keep him trapped into the marriage.
Fans who've seen the show have noticed all these similarities and have taken to Twitter with their opinions. "Joe Exotic is redneck Jeffree Star" tweeted a fan.
"Jeffree Star is Joe Exotic for the makeup world" read another tweet. "In the way, Joe Exotic was in getting straight men is it the same way with Jeffree Star?" wrote another fan.
"Joe Exotic is just the Jeffree Star of exotic animals" read another tweet. Everyone knows that Jeffree loves Pomeranians and someone tweeted, "Jeffree star is the joe exotic of Pomeranians" while another person tweeted, "Replace Joe Exotic’s tigers with Pomeranians and there you have it folks, Jeffree Star".
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