Actress Maria Bello revealed that she is in a lesbian relationship in a New York Times essay on Sunday, making an appeal to be embraced for her own “modern family.”
Bello, 46, wrote in a “Modern Love” column in the Sunday Styles section that she struggled with revealing to her 12-year-old son Jackson her relationship with a woman called Clare who happened to be her closest friend.
But she also argued for a broader definition of sexuality and love than what currently passes for social norms.
“I have never defined myself by whom I slept with,” Bello wrote. “but I know others have and would.”