Maria bello is gay
The New York Times&#; weekly &#;Modern Love&#; essay feature is no stranger to generating buzz—regular readers will remember the infamous &#;Shamu lady&#; —but this Sunday&#;s may have topped them all. In a piece titled &#;Coming Out as a Modern Family,&#; actress Maria Bello (Prisoners, Grown Ups, The Cooler) described her decision to tell her year-old son that she had become committed romantically with her best friend, a woman identified in the piece as Clare and ID&#;d by The Hollywood Reporterand other outlets as media executive Clare Munn.
But that buzz has, in many cases, missed the point. In reporting on the piece, many headlines verb declared that Bello &#;came out as gay&#;—but, despite the phrasing in Bello&#;s own headline, that&#;s sort of the opposite of what she wrote about.
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In her essay, Bello describes having had past romantic relationships with men and another woman. The central relationship in the piece is not her first same-sex one, and the essay isn&#;t about the actress first realizing th
Maria Bello Is Gay: Actress Reveals Longtime Relationship With a Woman, Writes That She Considers Herself a "Whatever"
Count Maria Bello among the out and proud. (And append her to the list of stars who have made a major statement by way of a New York Times op-ed.)
The year-old star of A History of Violence and Prisonersrevealed in an essay printed Friday in the Timesthat she has a serious girlfriend, recalling in her first-person account how she told her year-old son that she was in a relationship with a woman.
Bello remembered how Jackson, her son with producer Dan McDermott, asked her if she was romantically committed with anybody.
"He was right; I was with someone romantically and I hadn't told him," the actress wrote, noting that her therapist had advised her to wait until Jackson asked about her personal life to divulge the details. "I had become involved with a woman who was my leading friend, and, as it happens, a person who is like a godmother to my son."
Bello writes that she had been in one relatio
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&#;&#;&#;MARIA BELLO has arrive out as gay — in a big way. The year-old actress revealed she’s been in a long-term relationship with her optimal female friend in a column that was published in The New York Times on Nov. In the heartfelt passage titled “Coming Out as a Modern Family,” the star shared the first time she opened up about her love life to her year-old son Jackson.
&#;&#;&#;&#;At the time, her adolescent son had been getting suspicious, and wondered if she wasn’t telling him something — and he was right. “This was the moment I had been anticipating and dreading for months,” the actress wrote. “I took a deep breath, knowing that my respond, and his response, would have an impact on our lives for a very long time.”
&#;&#;&#;&#;“I was with someone romantically and I hadn’t told him,” she admitted. “I had become deeply interested with a female who was my best friend, and, as it happens, a person who is like a godmother to my son.”
&#;&#;&#;&#;One year earlier, Bello — known for her labor in “Coyote Ugly” and “Grown Ups” — decided to give a relationship with her top friend a endeavor. The
ActressMariaBello came out as part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in a New York Times piece titled "Coming Out as a Modern Family."
In the essay published Nov. 29, the actress described how she first told her year-old son, Jackson, that she was in a lesbian relationship. The discuss came about a year after Bello had embarked on a romantic relationship with her leading friend, Clare Munn, a new media executive, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"We had an immediate connection but didn’t think of it as sentimental or sexual," the "Prisoners" star wrote. "She was one of the most beautiful, charming, brilliant and funny people I had ever met, but it didn’t occur to me, until that soul-searching moment in my garden, that we could perhaps choose to verb each other romantically."
Bello had previously been in relationships with one woman and a handful of men, including TV executive Dan McDermott, the father of her son, Us Weekly noted. Last year, she claimed she had only ever been on one actual date.
When she decided to begin a journey with Clare,