Anna Camp is not afraid to share her truth. Almost a year after the Pitch Perfect actress confirmed her relationship with girlfriend Jade Whipkey last May, she shared her insights into her journey with her sexuality and why she is now coming out publicly as bisexual.
"As a 43-year-old woman, I am very proud of myself for owning my sexuality at this age," Anna said in a clip obtained by People from the March 10 episode of the I've Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario podcast. "I am a very strong person for doing it in somewhat of a spotlight with people criticizing and judging and making assumptions. I'm really proud to be bisexual."
The You star—who was previously married to Michael Mosley from 2010 until 2013 and Pitch Perfect costar Skylar Austin from 2016 until 2019—admitted that she's gone through "a major evolution in my 40s" and she's embracing "not being afraid of it."
"Sure, there are times I feel like I am taking a risk and this is scary, and I'm doing it in a public forum," she explained. "But to say, 'No, I only get one life and I want to be happy,' that's what life is all about."
While the How I Met Your Mother alum acknowledged that this isn't exactly how she pictured her life, she's also more than ready to embrace where she's found herself. "You think you've got this idea of who you are and that's how your life is going to go," Anna noted. "And that's happened to me several times in my life, where I thought that I knew what was happening. And it could have stopped in that way. I could have settled. I could have said, no, I'm done evolving."
It's a sentiment that she'd previously expressed after confirming her romance with Jade. "I just want to share that it is never too late to evolve into your truest self," Anna told Out Magazine in October. "Dismantling the mask of armor I had created for myself in order to navigate and survive taught me just that. I was merely surviving, not really living. And now I finally feel like I'm becoming the real Anna, thriving and alive."
"The largest obstacle I faced this year personally was juggling the emotions about coming out in my 40s," she added at the time. "Which included guilt for not embracing it sooner and excitement for finally being free from the constraints that had been placed on me by society and my upbringing."
