Actress Portia de Rossi made a sharp turn in her life when she finally came to grips with her sexuality and debilitating anorexia. Now, she’s ready to talk about it in a new book.
Her planned ”tell-all” book will detail her struggles with her sexuality and battle with anorexia.
de Rossi, 37, who is best know for her role in the hit TV show, “Ally McBeal,” is the wife of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. They were married in California in 2008, only to see Proposition 8 revoked the right of gays to marry.
But Portia’s marriage to Ellen and the marriages of some 18,000 other couples before repeal remain legal, according to The Advocate.
Since the ballot measure reversed a court ruling legalizing same sex marriages, De Rossi is dedicating herself to the cause of gay rights.
“Ever since Ellen and I got together, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to actually, God, this sounds corny… Well, I feel like my life can actually kind of stand for something,” she tells The Advocate magazine.
“I feel like, maybe I get why I’m here. May be by sharing my life, I can make people more aware of how important gay marriage is.”
She says he new role as gay advocate will come before acting. “Actors come and go. Characters come and go. TV shows come and go. While acting is entertaining, for me personally, it’s a little empty. It’s certainly not what I think I was born to do.”
De Rossi also wants to make her life an example for those struggling with the same issues.
Her public ‘outing’ came during “Ally McBeal.”
She had kept her sexuality secret until photos of her and ex-girlfriend, Francesca Gregorini, surfaced in the taboloids.
Her secrets, she said, nearly killed her. “Nobody can really get inside the anorexic’s mind like the anorexic,” she says.
The Human Rights Campaign plans to give De Rossi its “Visibility Award” in Los Angeles next month (Mar10), in honor of her “courage to come out publicly and to take a stand for same-sex marriage.”
For more on De Rossi’s interview, check out The Advocate.
Hey steve, you gross. We are all human and we are all equal. Respect each other life styles and sexuality. They are not stepping on you so just shut the fuck up.
SO Robert just because she “chose” (highly laughable) to be with a woman instead of be trapped in a sexist, oppressive union based on service and patriarchy with a “man” (also highly laughable) such as yourself is somehow step down because they also happen to be wealthy and attractive??
WOW. No wonder she “chose” to be homosexual- the dildo is a much better option.
But I love that you equate it to a man.
SO if she “Chose” to be straight, I guess you could just as equally “chose” to be gay?
Its so funny to me how slippery of an excuse that is that straight people use, ignorantly unaware that it also implicates the delicate nature of their own sexuality.
I’m not trying to be mean, but geez people, get educated, develop some open mindedness and some of those “MORAL principles” of your own that you don’t even practice- empathy, acceptance, love.
I dont remember reading that it is moral to judge others or assert one as superior over another.
DOH!!!
Good for her! She’s a great actor, her current show ‘Better Off Ted’ is fantastic, and she’s stepping up to be a positive role model. Go Portia!
No.
She thinks that by telling people who aren’t so closed minded and judgmental as you are,
that THEY will support her right to kiss, hug, be with whomever she pleases.
She thinks by telling her story, her voice and message will be heard over yours.
And it will.
Thank GOD.
People like you make me ashamed to be straight.
You don’t need to put “wife” in scare quotes. Her marriage wasn’t invalidated with the passage of Prop. 8, and she is still legally married, as are the 18,000 couples who were married when it was available to gay couples. You’re propagating misinformation. This requires a correction.
Steve is RIGHT.
Two wealthy,attractive women,who chose NOT to marry a man,instead,being homosexuals,is always a “bummer”.
Nevertheless,behind their luxurious bedroom doors,I bet that they, too, using a good old dildo,anyway.LoL LoL.
I think its great that she is standing up and not backing down from what she believes in, I think that it takes a lot of guts and she has no one to answer to but herself. For those who have a problem with that, I say “Deal with It” and “Too Damn Bad”. YOu go Portia, don’t worry about the haters.
How creepy and immoral. She thinks that by telling us of her gross lesbian lifestyle that will convince us to support gay marriage?