Hayden Panettiere Comes Out as Bisexual

Hayden Panettiere is sharing her full self with the world.

The Heroes alum just lately confirmed that she is bisexual—a subject she shares for the primary time in her upcoming May 12 memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning—explaining how her relationship along with her sexuality has shifted all through her life within the highlight.

“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 advised 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 a lot of the 36-year-old’s life, she did not really feel she was in a position to share her fact with the world.

“It was just never the right time,” she defined. “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.”