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Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning has come out publicly and shared the moment she realised she was "a big, old gay".
Marking Pride month, the British actress, who rose to fame playing Martha on the Netflix series, shared her personal coming out story and admitted that she initially didn't think she "could be" gay.
Gunning described how liberating it now feels to live as her authentic self. She came out to her private circle some 19 months ago. Appearing on the podcast, Reign with Josh Smith , the 38-year-old shared: "I came out in November 2022. And that was a mega, mega thing for me.
"I am surrounded by gays, like all my friends are gay, so it wasn't that I was repressing anything, it was just that I didn't think that I could be.
"I still can't articulate it in the best way. But I realised I was a big, old gay. I was like, 'That's what it's been, that's what it is'. And that was like a massive moment where everything kind of clicked and I made sense of myself then."
The Netflix star added that she felt "like an alien" before she came out, something she attributed at first to her being a "bigger woman".
"Because for so long I'd thought, 'I know I'm a bigger woman', and I thought that maybe it was to do with my size that I felt a bit like almost alien or like I was tagging along," she continued.
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