Kristen Stewart on her love life and sexuality: ‘I’m not ashamed or confused’

The Twilight star wants to encourage this 'new acceptance' to 'develop'
New acceptance: Kristen Stewart is not ashamed of her live life
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Jennifer Ruby11 October 2016
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Kristen Stewart has said that she’s not ‘ashamed’ or ‘confused’ about her love life or sexuality.

The Twilight star, who is rumoured to have just split from girlfriend Alicia Cargile, thinks that there is a ‘new acceptance’ and a ‘change’ in public thinking.

“I'm not ashamed, and I'm not confused. Things have changed,” she told Elle Magazine.

“And not just with me — we're really allowed to encourage this new acceptance to develop and be awesome.”

The US actress, 26, publically spoke out about her relationship with Cargile for the first time in July.

“I think ... right now I’m just really in love with my girlfriend,” she told the magazine. “We’ve broken up a couple of times and gotten back together, and this time I was like, ‘Finally, I can feel again.’”

The actress, who dated her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson for many years, also revealed she is now more comfortable about discussing her private life.

The full interview with Kristen Stewart is in this month's Elle Magazine 
ELLE Magazine

“When I was dating a guy I was hiding everything that I did because everything personal felt like it was immediately trivialised, so I didn’t like it,” she said.

“We were turned into these characters and placed into this ridiculous comic book, and I was like, ‘That’s mine. You’re making my relationship something that it’s not.’

“I didn’t like that. But then it changed when I started dating a girl. I was like, ‘Actually, to hide this provides the implication that I’m not down with it or I’m ashamed of it’, so I had to alter how I approached being in public.

"It opened my life up and I’m so much happier.”

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