Getty Images via ABCFifth Harmony’s Lauren Jauregui came out as bisexual last November, and even though she says people advised her not to talk about it, she refused to listen to them.
Speaking to Out magazine, Lauren says executives at the group’s record label told her she shouldn’t be so open about her personal life. “A lot of artists are held back by the notion that they’ll lose their fan base or alienate themselves,” she says. “Even friends and family would tell me to keep it to myself. But the more I thought about it, the more I was like, Why?”
“There’s this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous,” Lauren adds. “I completely disagree with that. Madonna, Bob Marley, John Lennon — they didn’t talk about bull***t.”
In fact, Lauren says she’s kind of upset that she even used the world “bisexual,” because it’s too limited.
“Even the fact that I labeled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I’m just a free spirit,” she explains. “People still talk s**t, but it’s like, ‘Why does it make you feel gross?’ You can watch a kid get bombed and not do anything about it, but you can’t watch me kiss my girlfriend? Go f*** yourself.’”
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