PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Jenny Nguyen remembers ” everything like it was yesterday” the day she came out to her parents when she was 17.
“I remember laying down in bed just sweating and thinking about how I had what felt like I had lived only half my life up until that moment by hiding this other half of myself and how I felt like I needed to come out,” Nguyen, the founder and CEO of The Sports Bra, told KOIN 6 News.
After what felt like the longest 5 minutes of her life, she got up from the bed and went to her parents.
“I just start crying. And my dad said, ‘It’s OK. What’s going on?’ And I told them that I was gay. And my mom’s reaction was pretty swift, which was something to the effect of, ‘How do you know? Are you sure? Maybe it’s a phase’, all of the lines that we sometimes hear,” she said. “Dad was emotional. And he goes, ‘You know what? We love you. We’ll help you figure it out.’”…