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The New York Times‘ weekly “Modern Love” essay feature is no stranger to generating buzz—regular readers will remember the infamous “Shamu lady” —but this Sunday’s may have topped them all. In a piece titled “Coming Out as a Modern Family,” actress Maria Bello (Prisoners, Grown Ups, The Cooler) described her decision to tell her 12-year-old son that she had become deeply interested romantically with her best friend, a woman identified in the piece as Clare and ID’d by The Hollywood Reporterand other outlets as media executive Clare Munn.
But that buzz has, in many cases, missed the point. In reporting on the piece, many headlines hold declared that Bello “came out as gay“—but, despite the phrasing in Bello’s own headline, that’s sort of the opposite of what she wrote about.
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In her essay, Bello describes having had past romantic relationships with men and another woman. The central relationship in the piece is not her first same-sex one, and the essay isn’t about the actress first realizing that she was attracted to people of both ge
Today People Magazine announced that actress Maria Bello, 57, and her girlfriend, acclaimed French chef Dominique Crenn, 59, got married on Sunday at luxury resort Montage Los Cabos in Mexico, an event for which Dominique Crenn out-gayed us all by wearing a button-up vest with no shirt underneath and Maria Bello was extremely pretty in pink. (Both brides wore Dior.) Their 140-strong guest list included Patricia Arquette, Gavin Rossdale (of Bush) and Bello’s very close acquaintance Mariska Hargitay (of Olivia Benson). Everybody looked very boiling and very gleeful. People describes the wedding as “chic” and “bohemian.”
Crenn also achieved peak woman loving woman status by entity walked down the aisle by her ex-wife’s mother, Peggy Keon, as skillfully as her two 10-year old daughters (whom she shares with ex, Katherine Keon.) They did so to the dulcet tones of Prince’s “Kiss.”
Bello walked the aisle with her mother, Kathy, and her 23-year-old son, Jackson, to the dulcet tones of “Time Flies” by Burna Boy.
The ceremony ended with classic gay party jam “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston. They did their first dance
Maria Bello Is Gay: Actress Reveals Longtime Relationship With a Chick, Writes That She Considers Herself a "Whatever"
Count Maria Bello among the out and confident. (And add her to the list of stars who contain made a major statement by way of a New York Times op-ed.)
The 46-year-old star of A History of Violence and Prisonersrevealed in an essay printed Friday in the Timesthat she has a serious girlfriend, recalling in her first-person account how she told her 12-year-old son that she was in a relationship with a woman.
Bello remembered how Jackson, her son with producer Dan McDermott, asked her if she was romantically deeply interested with anybody.
"He was right; I was with someone romantically and I hadn't told him," the actress wrote, noting that her therapist had advised her to wait until Jackson asked about her personal life to divulge the details. "I had grow involved with a woman who was my best friend, and, as it happens, a person who is like a godmother to my son."
Bello writes that she had been in one relationship with a woman before she got together with her girlfriend, Clare, but that men made up
Norristown native Maria Bello may be known for her roles in films such as “A History of Violence” and “The Cooler,” but she garnered considerable attention for her essay, “Coming Out as a Modern Family,” when it appeared in the “Modern Love” column in the New York Times. In the essay, Bello explained how she told her son Jack about her relationship with Clare, her best friend. His response: “Whatever, Mom, love is love.”
Bello uses this statement as the title of her new book, a collection of essays that question labels and self. In a recent mobile interview, Bello spoke about her life, work and family.
PGN: How did the success of your magazine story about being “whatever” change your life and visibility?
MB: After the Fresh York Times article, I had so many people saying, “I’m a whatever” or “I have a whatever family.” It was a duty or responsibility; I think people desire to talk about labels to see if they empower us or disempower us. I am confident to be a part of the LGBTW people that fights to cherish whoever you love and marry who you crave to marry. “Whatever” identifies as anything. There is a lack of restriction. I see that with a lot of traditional labels, which