Nathan William Collins was born in Salem, Oregon on the 26th of April, 1977, to James and Karen and grew up on a small farm outside of Stayton, Oregon. The youngest child of four, Nathan attended Mari-Linn Elementary School in Lyons, Oregon until his parents divorced in the late 1980's where he transferred between schools in Stayton and Salem until finally dropping out altogether during his freshman year at Stayton High School and moved to Hollywood to persue a career in modeling and acting. Nathan got brief notoriety in Portland, Oregon while working at the now closed down infamous underage nightclub, called The City Nightclub, which recieved both local and national attention on MTV for being an openly gay youth nightclub, where Nathan performed regulary as a character named, BeQueva, in the mid 1990s, and also starred as Dr. Frankfurter in the Portland production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, recieving much acclaim from its large cult following. Throughout his teens Nathan moved to every major city on the west coast of the USA, and spent a year in New York City, before going back to Los Angeles. Nathan's big break in modeling finally came in 2004 while living in Palm Springs, California and working as a cocktail waiter at a gay bar called Toucan's, when he landed on the cover of My Gay World, a gay/lesbian travel magazine, as the cover-boy for Atlanta, Georgia. Next came a photo shoot for an Italian fashion magazine with Andy Warhol alumni, Udo Kier, and then became the personal assistant to the late Anna Nicole Smith. After the tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith, Nathan returned to his Oregon roots to play a small role in the Pentacle Theatre's (Salem, Oregon) production of Neil Simon's comedy, The Sunshine Boys, where Nathan recieved glowing reviews for his portrayal of "Eddie".