Fans Raised $90k to Send Queer Eye’s Jess Guilbeaux Back to School

Without a doubt, Jess Guilbeaux was the best "hero," aka makeover subject, from Queer Eye's third season -- possibly the best of the entire series. Jess, a "proud black lesbian woman" who was searching for family after being rejected by her adopted parents for being queer, moved the Fab Five and viewers, with her story. The boys gave her a soft butch makeover inspired by Janelle Monae and helped her throw a dinner party for her chosen family of fellow queers, as well as the adoptive sister she reunited with. There were ... a lot of tears.

Well, get the waterworks ready again!

On the show, Guilbeaux explained that she'd had to drop out of school at the University of Kansas, where she was studying computer technology because of the debt she'd acquired. After her story aired on the show, a fan named Vanessa Gamet (from neighboring Lawrence, Kansas) set up a GoFundMe page in Guilbeaux's honor, to help the Queer Eye hero, who has been working as a waitress, go back to school. "Let's send this smart and strong woman back to college to complete what she began and give her the future she deserves," Gamet wrote on the fundraising page.

Currently, the fundraiser has brought it $92,570 of its $100,000 goal. On Saturday, Guilbeaux shared an update with those who had donated.

"I wanted to update everyone on what your wonderful gifts have helped me do and my process to getting back to school: I have paid off all my student loans!!," she wrote. "I'm so excited and ready to continue my education with a fresh new start. Thank you so so so much for everything!"

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