Jena Malone Opens Up About Her Journey in Coming Out as Pansexual

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Jena Malone is reflecting on coming out as pansexual in a new interview. The former Hunger Games star shared her story first in an Instagram post with her fans. “I guess it felt like I was a heterosexual man in a woman’s body.

I visualized his desires and placed them on to me. But this, was never the whole of the story that was meant for me,” the 37-year-old actor wrote. “So I’ve been learning a new way to tell it. Jena added, “Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling.

Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory. A fuller spectrum of understanding that my story is demanding of me.” In a new interview with THR, Jena opened up more about sharing her journey with her followers. Click inside to read more… “I’ve been thinking about it for a while,” Jena told the trade paper. “The sexual journey is so beautiful.

I mean, all of the identity journeys are so cool.” She added that while she is a “little bit late to the game in being able to have less shame,” she has “been loving the process of learning more about myself and others through different terms that open windows, those windows then turns into doors and then I arrive at a place to find all this cool stuff out there.” Jena continued, “It’s a part of humanity now to have all these ceremonies of exclamation around coming out and renouncing [an identity] and celebrating that space for yourself.