Portia de Rossi did not want to be a lesbian

I have a lot of respect for Portia de Rossi for her honesty in a recent interview about coming to terms with being a lesbian.

It’s such a difficult journey to go from really not wanting to be gay and creating a very complicated life for yourself because of it to eventually accepting your true nature and and moving forward as an out and proud human being.

Portia said in a recent interview: I just didn’t want to be a lesbian. I’d never met one for a start and I just thought they were strange and that they hated men and they were very serious and I had these ridiculous images in my head and there were no out celebrities or politicians or anybody that I could look to and go, “Oh, I could be like that.”

It became worse when she was cast on the hit show Ally McBeal because ‘I felt very scrutinized for just being a woman and an actress playing this kind of sexy role, because I didn’t really feel like that. It’s not really my personality to want to be the sexiest girl in the room.’

She came out publicly in 2005 and overcoming an eating disorder: ‘For me being honest about who I was, coming out, being gay, starting to day, that was a huge turning point for me, because I realized without changing my life, there was no point in changing the way that I ate.’