The Maternal Family Tree of Jonathan Van Ness

Jonathan Van Ness was born on March 28th, 1987 in Quincy, Illinois to Jonathan Lyle Van Ness and Mary McDonald Oakley. Van Ness has been openly gay since they were young and they were one of the few openly gay students at his school. They later became the first male cheerleader and received a scholarship for cheerleading from the University of Arizona. They would later drop out of the program and pursued a career as a hairdresser at the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis. They are now the grooming expert on the Netflix show Queer Eye and hosts the podcast Getting Curious. They married their husband Mark Peacock in early 2020.

Parents: Jonathan Van Ness and Mary McDonald Oakley

Mary McDonald Oakley was born around 1960 to Thomas Allison Oakley and Anne McDonald. Jonathan Lyle Van Ness was born to Albert Lyle Van Ness and a mother whose name is unknown. Mary attended Quincy High School in Quincy. Illinois where she was the President of her school’s student council and was on the golf team.

Mary and Jonathan married on February 21st, 1981 in Quincy, Illinois when Mary was 21 years old.