'Scrubs' Actor Joel Kim Booster Talks About His Non-Monogamous Marriage & How It Affects Body Image
Joel Kim Booster is opening up about being in a non-monogamous and hooking up in the gay community affects body image.
The 38-year-old actor is best known for his role in the rom-com Fire Island, which he also wrote, plus roles on the Apple TV series Loot and the reboot of Scrubs.
Joel got married to longtime love John-Michael Sudsina at the end of 2025 and now he’s opening up about how they have an open marriage.
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While speaking to GQ about body ideals, Joel said, “I would say I feel more pressure from being gay than I do from being an actor for sure. Absolutely. 100%. I think the standards are slightly different. Listen, yes, Fire Island and Industry happened, but Nicholas and Dr. Park, I’m wearing clothes and the face card never declines. And so even if I’m playing an attractive character, it is less focused on my body.”
He continued, “But being gay and especially being in a non-monogamous relationship, and so primarily only interacting… I’m not looking for love outside my relationship. We’re not polyamorous and so the sex I’m having outside of my relationship is all recreational at this point. And so when you’re primarily navigating [as someone] not dating, but just hooking up, I think it becomes even more focused on solely what you look like, than the entire package of who you are. My husband loves me for a lot of reasons other than besides what I look like, and that’s great. But when I am hooking up with a rando, it is probably going to be mostly about what I look like. And because I sleep with men, men are much more … They’re much less forgiving about body ideals than anyone else, especially gay men.”
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