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Hayden Panettiere Comes Out as Bisexual
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The Hannah Montana alum was asked by Variety in 2016 when she first identified herself as pansexual. As she explained, "I went to the LGBTQ center here in L.A., and I started hearing these stories. I saw one human in particular who didn't identify as male or female. Looking at them, they were both: beautiful and sexy and tough but vulnerable and feminine but masculine. And I related to that person more than I related to anyone in my life."
Hayden Panettiere is sharing her full self with the world.
The Heroes alum recently confirmed that she is bisexual—a topic she shares for the first time in her upcoming May 12 memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning—explaining how her relationship with her sexuality has shifted throughout her life in the spotlight.
“Now that I know that this book is coming out, and that I’ve chosen to share it with the world, I’m comfortable to confidently say that yes, I am bisexual,” she told Us Weekly in an interview published May 6. “I said it! This is the first time I got to say it out loud.”
Because for much of the 36-year-old’s life, she didn’t feel she was able to share her truth with the world.
“It was just never the right time,” she explained. “It was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times. I was not encouraged to just be myself. Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad.”
