Antoni Porowski says that conversations around sexual health don’t have to be awkward

Antoni Porowski at the 'CNN Searching for Spain with Eva Longoria' screening on April 21, 2025 in New York City. Noam Galai/Getty Images

Many years before he became the resident foodie and one fifth of the makeover dream team on “ Queer Eye ,” Antoni Porowski already had no problem having important and frank conversations.

“I learned about STIs probably before I hit puberty,” he told CNN in a recent interview.

When Porowski later called out his physician father for broaching the subject of sexually transmitted infections when he was quite young, his dad’s response was, “Well you know what, you had to know and you were going to find out at some point anyway.”

Porowski – whose mother, sister and grandfather also have medical backgrounds – grew up around science and having conversat