JoJo Siwa got candid about her identity.
The Dance Moms alum—who came out as a lesbian in 2021 but now identifies as queer—detailed impact the public had on her coming out journey and feeling the need to label herself amid her new romance with Chris Hughes.
“When I came out at 17, I said, ‘I’m pansexual, because I don’t care [about gender],'” JoJo said in an interview with The Daily Mail published June 20. “But then I kind of boxed myself in and I said, ‘I’m a lesbian.’ And I think I did that because of the pressure.”
As for where that pressure came from, the 22-year-old pointed to several different factors, including the LGBTQ community at large.
“In a weird way, I think it came a little bit from inside the community at times,” she pondered. “From people I know, from partners I’ve had. You just get put in this world where you feel like, because you now have said, ‘Oh, I’m a lesbian,’ you have to be a lesbian. And the truth is, sexuality is fluid.”
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