{"id":942171,"date":"2026-05-06T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:20:14","slug":"hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942171\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Comes Out as Bisexual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hayden_panettiere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hayden Panettiere<\/strong><\/a> is sharing her full self with the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Heroes alum recently confirmed that she is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lgbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">bisexual<\/a>\u2014a topic she shares for the first time in her upcoming May 12 memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning\u2014explaining how her relationship with her sexuality has shifted throughout her life in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that I know that this book is coming out, and that I\u2019ve chosen to share it with the world, I\u2019m comfortable to confidently say that yes, I am bisexual,\u201d she told Us Weekly in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/hayden-panettiere-gets-honest-on-loss-addiction-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">interview published May 6<\/a>. \u201cI said it! This is the first time I got to say it out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because for much of the 36-year-old\u2019s life, she didn\u2019t feel she was able to share her truth with the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just never the right time,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times. I was not encouraged to just be myself. Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere is sharing her full self with the world. The Heroes alum recently confirmed that she is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-942171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}