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Cara Delevingne Opens Up About Being Pansexual

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Cara Delevingne Opens Up About Being Pansexual

For Pride Month, Cara Delevingne is speaking out more about her sexuality.

In a recent interview with Variety, the model and actress stated that she considers herself to be pansexual, which means that she develops feelings for people regardless of their gender identification.

“I think I’ll always be pansexual,” the Mirror, Mirror author, 27, said in an interview published on June 3. “However one defines themselves, whether it’s ‘they’ or ‘he’ or ‘she,’ I fall in love with the person — and that’s that. I’m attracted to the person.”

The Suicide Squad actress went on to say that she “never thought I needed to come out,” she says, “It was just kind of like, ‘This is who I am. Just so you know.’”

She also discussed how she sees herself as a woman, saying, “The thing is with me, I change a lot. I feel different all the time. Some days, I feel more womanly. Some days, I feel more like a man.”

Cara has long been an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, and she even helped Puma and The Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to suicide prevention for gay and questioning young people, form a $1 million relationship.

“Pride to me is a sense of something that I never really had as a kid. A sense of pride is like a sense of belonging, a family outside your family, a place where you don’t have to apologize or feel ashamed,” she said. “I guess I never felt like I belonged anywhere as a kid. Or I always felt like I didn’t belong in my own body. I felt so lost.”

“Once I could talk about my sexuality freely, I wasn’t hiding anything anymore,” the A-lister said. “And, the person I hid it from the most was myself.”

In another part of the interview, Delevingne said that Harvey Weinstein, the notorious Hollywood mogul, had advised her that being with a woman would hurt her acting career.

“Harvey was one of the people that told me I couldn’t be with a woman and also be an actress,” she explained. “I had to have a beard. … To me, the idea of having a beard was—I’d heard it happen before—I just felt so disheartened by it. Do you have a conversation with a dude, and they’re like, ‘I’m going to pretend to be with you but not really love you’? I kind of think when I was pushed more that way, I realized how much more I needed to go the other way.”

While the British model and actor has not described herself as “pansexual,” she previously called herself “sexually fluid.”

Delevingne highlighted why the phrase is unique in a 2017 interview with Glamour: “Once I spoke about my sexual fluidity, people were like, ‘So you’re gay.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I’m not gay.’ ”

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