Our favorite and Emmy-winning reality series Queer Eye returned for its sixth season on 31 December 2021. And so did “Fab Five”. Just like old times, the “make better” experts Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, and Antoni Porowski returned to help a new group of 10 heroes rebuild their confidence. Sarah Lim, who we are about to exclusively talk about is one of them.
Before or after you see Sarah Lim getting ready for a major makeover on the show, you may want to be acquainted with this ‘Sarah Lim Bio’.
Sarah Lim On Queer Eye
Days before Queer Eye Season 6 dropped on Netflix, Sarah took to her social media to express that she still feels surreal and unbelievable about being a part of such great of a project.
So, Sarah is on the show realizing that she needs transformation from her image of being fashionably challenged.
Just a little sneak peek into Sarah’s part of the story on the show: showing the severity of the impact COVID-19 had on small businesses, the Fab Five meet Sarah, the owner of gluten-free Asian-inspired bakery OMG Squee.
Citing that the pandemic strain led her to focus more on her business and less on herself, Sarah is ready for a makeover and you would not want to miss it.
Sarah Lim Age
Reportedly born in 1986, Sarah Lim turned 35 years old in 2021.
Is Sarah Lim Married?
Sarah Lim’s relationship status is not known. So, as of now, one could not tell if or not she is married.
However, after some digging into her Instagram we found out her business partner Micahel DeAnda is the only man featured on her IG accounts.
Sarah Lim Family
Sarah Lim’s dad is a Chinese Malaysian immigrant and her mom is from working-class Greek and Fr. Canadian immigrants.
Sharing her bitter experiences being a mixed-race Sarah voiced how her identity has always been in question just because she does not always pass the Asian-looking test.
Then Sarah went on highlight one specific story of when she was 5. At the time, she mainly spoke Cantonese at home with her dad and English with her mom. (“Since I’m the oldest, my dad taught me how to read & do simple math before I started school.”)
Then during Kindergarten in Dallas, her White teacher one day informed her parents that Sarah needed to be placed in ESL because she had used “ONE Chinese word”. As a result, her dad never spoke Cantonese to her again or with her younger sisters. I assume he felt defeated & suffered from his racial-related traumas, so he felt it was best for his children to assimilate.
And now looking back, Sarah, who is the eldest of her siblings, is saddened by the fact that she was not able to learn Cantonese just because “of one ignorant person in a powerful institutional position”. She considers this as her biggest personal loss of her Chinese culture also because likely no future generation of her family in America will be able to speak Cantonese.
All that aside, Sarah is very close to her family. And on occasions like Father’s Day, she would express her feelings with something like: “Happy Father’s Day to all the rad dads out there that helped shaped us into the weirdos we are. 💖”.
Is Sarah Lim On Instagram, Facebook?
Until 1 January 2022, Sarah Lim could be spotted both on Instagram and Facebook. Her account on Instagram @sarahlim had 1,401 followers and her business account for ‘OMG Squee’ dessert shop @squeeclub had had around 15.6k followers.
The OMG Squee bakery seemed also as famous on Facebook @squeeclub.
Sarah Lim Career
Following dual bachelors in American Studies and Photojournalism from The University of Texas at Austin from 2004 – 2007, Sarah Lim briefly worked as a photo/video intern at Detroit Free Press and as a multimedia intern at The Victoria Advocate.
Then in January 2011, she started as a conceptual, portrait, and youth lifestyle photographer for editorial and commercial advertising at her own Sarah Lim Photo. She is on this job even today.
Then there is the bakery OMG Squee where has been a “boss lady” alongside her business partner, Micahel DeAnda as of November 2017.
So, you know, OMG Squee is known for its all Asian-American and 100% gluten-free pastries, desserts, and drinks.
All in all, Sarah introduces herself as a creative skill hoarder and entrepreneur on her LinkedIn profile.
Now a little bit of background to how she got into baking!
Sarah was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder and so she had to give up many of her favorite foods for health reasons. But, after one too many sad birthdays of “awful” gluten-free cake that were “NOT worth the calories” she taught herself how to bake.
Related FAQs
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Where Is Sarah Lim From?
Sarah Lim is originally from Dallas, Texas. However, currently (2022) you may find her somewhere in Austin.
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How Tall Is Sarah Lim?
Sarah Lim stands below 5’3” tall.
