Janelle Monáe says it's not stunning that she's polyamorous: 'I used to be by no means the girlfriend that may be jealous'

• Janelle Monáe mentioned it isn’t stunning she’s been in polyamorous relationships.
• “I used to be by no means the girlfriend that may be jealous,” she advised Vogue UK.
• The 37-year-old singer and actor got here out as pansexual in 2018 and nonbinary in 2022. 

Janelle Monáe says it is no shock that she’s embraced polyamory as she’s gotten older. 

In a brand new interview with Vogue UK, the “Glass Onion” actress mentioned that she “by no means was the girlfriend that may be jealous.” She advised the journal she’s been in a number of polyamorous relationships. “Wanting again, I am like – clearly!”

In 2018, Monáe got here out as pansexual. In 2022, she revealed that she’s nonbinary, and makes use of each she/her they usually/them pronouns. 

“I am nonbinary, so I simply do not see myself as a lady, solely,” Monáe mentioned throughout a 2022 look on “Crimson Desk Discuss.” “I really feel all of my vitality. I really feel like God is a lot greater than the ‘he’ or the ‘she.’ If I’m from God, I’m all the pieces. I’m all the pieces, however I’ll all the time, all the time stand with ladies. I’ll all the time stand with Black ladies. However I simply see all the pieces past the binary.”

The “Make Me Really feel” singer echoed that sentiment in her Vogue UK interview, noting that “nothing about me speaks to binary. I do not suppose I had the phrases to precise it earlier than… I listened to my spirit and my spirit was screaming, ‘You’re a free-ass mothaf–ka!'”

“The extra I’m free in my pondering and residing exterior of the binary, I am on a continuing discovery of who I could be,” she continued. “I can maintain house for lots of various issues on the similar time. I simply felt like I wished to release my thoughts.”

A part of releasing up her thoughts, was transferring past her buttoned-up, suit-forward aesthetic. “Even after I was actually, actually sporting solely fits,” she advised Rolling Stone, “I used to be both in a swimsuit otherwise you would discover me at my very own events bare. It was no in-between.” 

Today, Monáe, who’s selling her new report, “The Age of Pleasure,” says she’s busy exploring her freedom.

“For me, typically that is studying a guide earlier than 6 a.m., typically it is having a celebration and with the ability to come dry and depart moist, kiss someone that you just simply met, you already know?”