Female Celebrities who Left Their Men for Women : Many people are embracing their sexual fluidity. More and more people are accepting their sexuality. When it comes to love, people are becoming more honest about themselves who they love, without having to explain why they love them. Most people have the luxury of doing this in the privacy, But celebrities have to do this in the public eye.
There are many female celebs who chose a woman over the men that were in their lives. They decided to leave their boyfriend, husband, partner in order to pursue a relationship with a woman. Love triangles of any kind are exhausting, dramatic, and often come as a shock to at least one party involved.
Being in a same-gender relationship is just as hard if not harder than a heterosexual relationship. In addition to the pressures of the relationship, there comes the stares, the comments and the straight up negativity.
These female celebs left their husbands or boyfriends for the company of another woman (or women).
Portia de Rossi
Portia de Rossi is married to comedian and daytime TV host Ellen DeGeneres now. But before she married Ellen DeGeneres in 2008, Portia de Rossi was married to Mel Metcalfe who actually left her for her own brother’s wife. Yikes!
Anne Heche
Anne Heche dated comedian and actor Steve Martin for two years. But everything changed when she met Ellen DeGeneres at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 1997. She soon dumped Martin and embarked on a very public romance with Ellen. Ellen came out as a lesbian on her TV show, Ellen, a week later. Sadly, the couple split and Heche has not dated another woman since.
Lauren Morelli
Lauren Morelli is a writer for Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black. She was married to Stephen Basilone for two years before she met and fell in love with ‘Orange Is The New Black’ star Samira Wiley. They married in 2017.
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Sarah Paulson
American Horror Story actress Sarah Paulson, was dating famous playwright Tracy Letts. However, they split and Paulson started dating actress Holland Taylor. It is not a surprise that Paulson is dating a woman. In the past, Paulson actually had a relationship with actress Cherry Jones. She definitely believes in falling in love with a person, not their gender.
Wanda Sykes
Actress and Comedian Wanda Sykes was married to Dave Hall from 1991 to 1998. She says, It took her years to realize that she actually preferred the company of women. She married to her partner Alex Niedbalski in 2008.
Cynthia Nixon
Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon was with partner Danny Mozes for 16 years. They had two kids. They separate in 2003. Shortly after, she start dating education activist Christine Marinoni. They married in 2012. “I’m just a woman in love with another woman” Cynthia said.
Meredith Baxter
American actress and producer Meredith Baxter was married to three different men before she came out to her partners and the public about her sexuality. After her third divorce, ‘The Family Ties’ star Meredith Baxter met Nancy Locke and both start dating. both got married in 2013.
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Billie Jean King
Tennis legend Billie Jean King was married to sports promoter Larry King for 21 years. The pair married in 1965. They divorced in 1987, and She officially came out of the closet in 2000. She fell for her fellow tennis player and doubles partner ilana Kloss. They’ve been together ever since.
Also celebs like Cara Delevingne, Kristen Stewart, Lindsay Lohan, Drew Barrymore, Demi Lovato, Angelina Jolie, Amber Heard are some of the name who made it to this list (Female Celebrities who Left Their Men for Women).
Reports have been that these female Celebrities also hooked up with another woman after they were in relationship with a man. Some were serious relationships and some were on and off hookups.
Love is totally blind and these women proved that. Some relationships may have ended badly, but they proved and showed us that none of these women were afraid to follow their hearts!