Beauty vlogger and Project Runway: Threads judge, Ingrid Nilsen, shared an intimate secret she has kept to herself for two decades in a 20 minute video with her millions of YouTube fans yesterday: she is gay.

Ingrid NilsenUsing the medium that made her a star, Ingrid Nilson told YouTube that she is gay

In the emotional conversation on the platform that made her famous, Nilsen discusses hiding her sexuality and how she has previously documented her relationships with men, despite knowing that she was gay from a very early age.

Nilsen, who goes by the YouTube name of MissGlamorazzi, explained that she has had crushes on women for as long as she can remember but felt she had to suppress her feelings because of the environment she was surrounded in.

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The 26-year-old Californian said: "Essentially I grew up in an environment where homosexuality wasn’t universally accepted.

"It was accepted by some and definitely not the majority and that was difficult."

With her video chalking up almost 300,000 likes, it seems acceptance by the majority is not something Nilsen will have to worry about again.

Having dated a number of men, Ingrid explained she thought she could "go through the motions" with a man but encounters with women between boyfriends has led her to realise she is no longer willing to accept second best.

She said: "I want to live my life unapologetically because I am proud of who I am and I am not going to apologise for who I am anymore.

"This is the life I have always lived in my head and now it’s real. I’m so excited!"