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You probably know Maria Bello, aka "Jack Sloane," is part of the LGBTQ community. The 52-year-old actress came out as gay in 2013 by publishing an essay titled "Coming Out as a Modern Family" in the New York Times.
The essay, which eventually was recorded by the actress and released in a podcast called Modern Love, describes a series of situations Bello experienced in her journey of coming out. She recalls, for instance, that time when she had to tell her son Jackson that she was in a relationship with another woman after he asked her if there was something she was not telling him.
Maria Bello opens up about her first relationship with a woman
The NCIS star also described how she realized she was actually having romantic feelings for someone she thought was only a friend. While going through a series of throwback pictures, she found an image of her and her best friend and "she couldn't help but smile." Then she explained they "had an immediate connection but didn’t think of it as romantic or sexual."
That's when she realized it didn't make sense to waste more time. "What had I been waiting for all of these years? She is the person I like being with the most, the one with whom I am most myself," she wrote.
Maria Bello was worried about how her relationship would affect her work and her son
The fabulous Maria revealed she was actually afraid of beginning a journey with the woman she loved because it could affect her professional life, as well as her relationship with her child. Fortunately her son Jackson supported her in a very adorable way and told her: "Mom, love is love, whatever you are."
From that moment on "Jack Sloane" decided to consider herself a "whatever" and to love whomever she wants. "Love is love, and I love our modern family," she said.
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