Hayden Panettiere Comes Out as Bisexual, Talks Dating Women
Hayden Panettiere is publicly revealing for the primary time that she identifies as bisexual.
“The first time it even crossed my mind to touch on this subject was while I was in the process of writing this book,” Panettiere, 36, solely tells Us Weekly on this week’s cowl story whereas discussing her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoningout May 19. In the ebook, Panettiere discusses her attraction to ladies and the second she lastly felt snug sufficient to share that side of her id with the world.
“It took two years to write this book, and I didn’t know what I was going to feel comfortable touching on… and what stories were naturally going to come up, and the fact that that did come up, I was like, ‘Why not?’” the nashville aluminum proceed. “I’ve chosen to be completely brutally honest about this, and that’s something about me that I was never able to share with the world, because it was just never the right time.”
Panettiere admits that she averted revealing her attraction to ladies up to now as a result of she felt like she was “forced to be perfect at all times” when she was youthful.
“I was not encouraged to just be myself,” she tells Us. “No one ever encouraged me to just be myself, and then it came, the period of time, where it felt like people coming out, especially women coming out, and saying that they were bisexual, or liked girls, was a fad.”
Panettere says she felt “afraid” that if she got here out sooner, folks would see it as “jumping on the bandwagon.”
“And once again, it was always the fear of not being perfect, and what my team was going to think about it, what the public’s opinion was going to be about it,” she continues. “It was just never the right time, and it was a very difficult topic to articulate properly. I wanted to make sure that I really sat down and chose my words carefully and was able to tell my story in an honest way, that people understood. On one hand, it’s sad that I had to wait until I was 36 years old to share that part of me, but better late than never, right?”
Panettiere provides, “Now that I know that this book is coming out, and that I’ve chosen to share it with the world, I’m comfortable saying I’m bisexual. I’m comfortable to confidently say that, yes, I am bisexual. I said it!”
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The Ice Princess star additionally opens up about her previous expertise relationship ladies.
“It was always scary, because my life, I mean, there were paparazzi always outside, waiting for me outside, to follow me everywhere,” she recollects. “I had very little privacy, and I mean, I have dated women. It started at a very, very young age.”
Panettiere says she was “much more into women” than males when rising up.
“But, yeah, I have explored it, but I don’t think I ever had the courage, because I hadn’t shared this with anybody,” she notes. “I didn’t really have the courage to throw myself fully, emotionally into it, because then if I did fall in love, that wasn’t something that I wanted to ever have to hide. I didn’t feel confident enough, and I was too afraid to really let that part of me explore that part of me.”
Panettiere’s most up-to-date public romance was with ex Brian Hickerson from 2018 to 2020. She was additionally beforehand engaged to Wladimir Klitschkowith whom she shares 11-year-old daughter Kaya, from 2013 to 2018.
This Is Me: A Reckoning hits cabinets on Tuesday, May 19.