\u201cI\u2019ve experienced perspectives [and] I\u2019ve had conversations with people I\u2019ve known, loved and trusted and still do, who thought, \u2018Your career would go better if you didn\u2019t go outside holding your girlfriend\u2019s hand.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018So you want me to live a partial life? And you want me to uphold, perpetuate and sustain a system that excludes people?\u2019 And I just can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kristen admitted one of the reasons she wanted to be open about her sexuality is because she is keen to play a part in the world being a \u201cmore open and accepting place\u201d.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be part of a comic book. But what I didn\u2019t want to do was hide from the world we live in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to define it, I want to make it a more open and accepting place.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so I thought it was necessary for me to \u2013 I was already holding my girlfriend\u2019s hand in public.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of my relationships have felt guarded because I didn\u2019t want people to know me. I want people to know me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like they did, so I didn\u2019t really need to fill in the blanks. But at that point it felt like a statement that just might unlock other people\u2019s doors.\u201d<\/p>\n
In December, Kristen told how being married to Dylan reshaped her sense of home and identity.<\/p>\n
She told Esquire: \u201cIt\u2019s so nice to have a family. It\u2019s so nice to not be an unmoored individual.<\/p>\n
\u201cDylan came into my life, and I immediately was like, \u2018It\u2019s so important to handpick and curate the people that surround you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve experienced perspectives [and] I\u2019ve had conversations with people I\u2019ve known, loved and trusted and still do, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,4492,17094,9442,2046,156,149503,6540,28162,21666,78,68497,111,139,5006,69,143,3109,312,20863,6934,61,6859,5828,6736],"class_list":["post-266829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-advised","tag-avoid","tag-better","tag-career","tag-entertainment","tag-girlfriends","tag-hand","tag-hold","tag-holding","tag-in","tag-kristen","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-partners","tag-public","tag-says","tag-she","tag-stewart","tag-to","tag-told","tag-wanted","tag-was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}