Eric Nies of MTV fame reveals he was sexually abused as a kid

Erischk wash moleschted!

Yikes at OP's pic. Is he on Survivor?

He lives in Hawaii

We all get old

There's old and there's Richard Hatch.

He refers to himself as a “sex icon”.

What dies that make me?

What am I? Chopped liver?

He posted some more about it today

Apparently you have to sign up for Instagram to see the post.

He was so beautiful. Too bad his career didn’t go anywhere.

Let me guess. He has an autobiography coming out

Post one

l've worn many masks and played many characters in the movie of my life. But the most difficult mask for me to wear was the one created from the sexual abuse in my life. Rising to fame in my 20s, becoming a sex icon, acting like everything was fine when deep down I was suffering inside. I had to come home to my inner child to reclaim my inner king. It wasn't until I reconnected to the little boy inside of me, made peace with my past, and forgave the trauma, that my inner king could rise into the masculine protector of my inner queen. Claiming all parts of me home. I'm over half a century old now, one old tall tree, and I'm still learning a lot in this earth school. But if there is something I know for sure, no doubt, it is this: There is nothing more boring than the mask of perfection. Your soul came here to experience the full spectrum of what it means to be human. You will only tap into true power and true peace when you give all parts of you a place to belong within your own heart. Your shadows and light. Your grief and your shame. Your chaos and crazy, your beauty and passion and silly, sexy, wild, weird self. There is beauty in the parts of yourself you have labeled as broken. There is medicine in your mess. Authenticity is SEXY. Your whole self is BEAUTIFUL. I'm challenging you, if you dare, send to me a selfie of your most authentic self. Don't hold back!! I will be sharing my 20 favorites.

Post two

There is a child living inside every human being. A little boy and little girl who experienced trauma, neglect, abuse and abandonment. A child who wants to be seen. A child who wants to be loved. A child who wants to be safe. We may look different on the outside, but in our hearts we are connected through our shared humanity. We all feel the same feelings. We all cry the same tears. Every human being you meet is fighting an invisible battle you know nothing about. We have been conditioned to suffer in silence, to hide our wounds and hold it all together beneath a mask of perfection. For most of our lives, we pushed our inner child to the side. Suppressed our sensitivity, numbed our feelings, drowned the pain in addiction and distraction, filling ourselves with more emptiness. It took me years and years of failing, falling down, picking myself up again and again, rising out of the grips of addiction, going through a dark night of my soul, countless ceremonies, purging, crying, feeling, accepting, forgiving, to finally love myself, all of me, unconditionally, and reclaim my connection to my inner child. It hasn't been easy, but it has 10000% been worth it. And being able to show up for others on their journey of reclamation is the ultimate reward. Our inner child is the guardian of our power. The gatekeeper of our soul. True healing happens when you fiercely love and embrace the fullness of your human journey, in all of its beauty and brokenness, everything that has sculpted you into the powerful, magnificent soul that you are today. The only way out of your suffering, anxiety, depression, and pain...is to love it. Accept it. Cherish it. Hold it with gentleness and compassion, like you would hold a child. It's up to us to take our power back. No one outside of us can save us. To reclaim our life story. To walk that little girl and little boy home to the unconditional love within our own heart. Because when we do that for ourselves we can do that for each other. I love you. I feel you. We are the ones that are walking each other home. Reminding each other that we are not alone.

This is not news. He revealed it many years back.

Seems like he's found a good path; the Inner Child recognition is a sign of self-examination and likely some decent therapy.

If practiced right, it can be very "Zen" vs. self-obsessed. He appears to have almost a Buddhist's worldview, which I think is great.

Bump

he was pretty but so boring. He continues to be boring

Why do celebrities from A- List to D-list feel the need to share with the public the fact that they were molested. I empathizes with molested people. As an attorney I have discovered that many people- not just females- have been molested or raped- some when they were 5 or 8 years old. Many also start using drugs at that age. And so addiction and crime go hand in hand but the underlying cause is that as a child they were violated. And many never ever get over or on with their lives. I have known people who were introduced to drugs so they could be raped. People who were exchanged for drugs and raped. They are raped by various family members usually, and the abuse happens more than once. That's not to say that once is not enough, but it is extremely hard to recover from grooming. All that said it is never easy to tell someone you were a victim of sexual abuse. The people I have known had a very tough time explaining and confessing because it's a trauma. We use to say in our firm that people who easily tell you they are crazy or molested are neither. So I suspect that it is just for attention which I find appalling because the true crime rarely gets help or comes out with a typed note.

[quote]Why do celebrities from A- List to D-list feel the need to share with the public the fact that they were molested.

They want to be in the news again. most often, like Suzanne Somers, they're selling a book

[quote] Why do celebrities from A- List to D-list feel the need to share with the public the fact that they were molested.

Because it helps destigmatize it. Don’t be stupid.

Do you sell drugs?

[quote] Why do celebrities from A- List to D-list feel the need to share with the public the fact that they were molested.

What r21 said! Holding in that trauma is the ruin of many people. It is such a secret shame that most lock it away and don't realize the self-harm they do until it is too late to correct it. If you are fortunate enough to liberate yourself from that trauma you do not feel compelled to keep your journey, or your healing, a secret.

R31, I agree - it helps to destigmatize as well as allows others who hold everything in in misdirected shame to feel less alone, even if they can’t speak openly themselves.

The stigma should fall on the adult predators, not the children and adult survivors of childhood abuse.

He was incredibly sexy when young. Effortlessly handsome.

But he had no discernible talent. Other than modeling what could he have done in show biz?

Was he molested by a man or woman? It doesn't seem clear from his posts, maybe intentionally.

Save it for the shrink, honey.

He’s using this for publicity. Sick.

One internet post is hardly publicity 🙄

If people never talk about abuse, it adds to the stigma. But if they mention it at all they're accused of wanting publicity

Who abused him?

He goes by "Eric Ka-Rel John Nies" now.

[quote] There is a child living inside every human being. A little boy and little girl who experienced trauma, neglect, abuse and abandonment.

I have no little girl living inside me.

[quote] destigmatize

We’re no longer in the twentieth century. Who is still stigmatizing child abuse victims? If Eric is stigmatized by anyone for his post, it’s only because of his past career of being an attention whore, not for anything he was the victim of.

He looks like a mental case now. Meth induced.

Eric Nies, 54 (born May 23, 1971; Ocean Township, New Jersey) is an American former model and reality television personality. He first gained fame as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: New York, before going on to appear on that show's spinoffs and other reality shows, such as The Grind and Confessions of a Teen Idol. Nies revealed on the 2000 special The Real World 10th Anniversary Special that three years into hosting The Grind, a business manager stole a quarter million dollars from him, effectively leaving him destitute and ruining his career, after which he contemplated suicide.

Then

Now?

When cleaned up he's still incredibly handsome. He could still surely make a living as a print model for older men's clothes.

His brother has the better dick in the family.

R39. You've seen Eric's and his brother's dicks?

Details, please.

They were photographed nude for some book. They've been out on the internet for decades.