Patricia Velasquez Venezuelan Super Model Has Come Out As Gay

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According to reports from E! News, the beautiful actress who played the role of Anck-Su-Namun in the 1999 film "The Mummy" and its 2001 sequel "The Mummy Returns," opened up about how she hid her sexuality from her loved ones for years, and has dated both men and women in her book.

Yahoo! Parenting cited that her book was inspired by her 8-year-old daughter Maya who she shares with ex-partner Lauren.

Velasquez told the outlet that, "It's very difficult to face your past, so I put off doing anything like this for a long time," she added, "But as my daughter started growing up and I was teaching her to be honest and proud, I knew it was time for me to set an example-and that meant facing my truth. For me, living life with truth and honesty is the one thing I want to make sure she understands."

She wrote in her book, "Gay marriage wasn't legal when Lauren and I decided to commit to one another and have a baby together," she adds, "The decision was an easy one, not like when it had been presented to me before. It made sense. Lauren was an amazing woman and I was excited to bring a life into the world with her. The second we received confirmation she was pregnant, I felt like my entire life had changed for the better."

According to E! News, Velasquez is currently in a relationship with a woman named Ileanna from Venezuela, as she told Yahoo! Parenting that they have been together for the past year.

She wrote about several past partners In her memoir and said she was "in love" with a woman named Sandra Bernhard. Both Velasquez, and Bernharrd had been linked together for several times in the press, but they never confirmed a relationship.

Back in 2001, Velasquez told Cinema.com before that, "Look, she was a very, very important person in my life-and she still is. She was a friend, she was like a mother to me, and also like my daughter sometimes...Sandra is somebody that I have in my heart forever, because I didn't even speak English when I met her, and she taught me so much."

The New York Post revealed that the two met backstage at a fashion show. Velasquez wrote in the book that she realized she was in love with her just few months later, while she was on a "Frida Kahlo-themed shoot" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

In her book, Velasquez wrote about how she had "successfully hidden" her sexuality in her native Venezuela. She said she was inspired to finally come out to her supportive family, just before walking the runway at a fashion show by French haute couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier. This was around the same time "The Mummy" was released. Velasquez was dating a woman named Lisa at the time.

"As I sat there waiting to walk, I was feeling this great sense of pride thinking about my journey to this moment, the only Latina in this massive show, excited to be a part of something so amazing," she wrote. "Gaultier was a genius but he was also doing exactly what he wanted to do. It made me realize that I could be myself, too. That was the moment, I decided right there. It all just clicked suddenly. I turned to Lisa before I went out onstage. 'I'm ready.'"

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