Australian actress Rebel Wilson (44) believes that there is an unfair taboo on deflowering later in life. Young people should not feel pressure to have sex as a teenager, she argues in a new interview. In it, the ‘late bloomer’ tells when she herself was deflowered, in the hope of showing that there is nothing wrong with that.
When adults talk about sexuality with each other, the underlying idea is that they can all talk about it. But for Rebel Wilson, known for films like Pitch Perfect and Senior Year, that was not the case for a long time. Even as a teenager, she started to go to great lengths to avoid the subject because she was ashamed of it. She even lied to her best friend.
Wilson claimed she “just did it” when she was about 23 to “get it over with.” “So that I wouldn’t get any further questions about it,” the actress says People. But it wasn’t true. “When the conversation came up, I left the room,” she says of social situations. The actress sometimes heard people say that they lost their virginity at the age of 24, and others said what time that is.
‘A huge loser’
She did not dare to admit that she had lost her virginity at the age of 35. “I sat there and thought: oh my God, my number is 35. What the hell? They will soon see me as a huge loser.” She doesn’t think that is right. “Not everyone needs to be deflowered as a teenager,” Wilson said. In her new autobiography, she is open about her age of deflowering for the first time, to inspire others.
“People can wait until they are ready or until they are a little older. I think that can be a positive message. Of course, you don’t have to wait until you’re in your 30s, like me, but you shouldn’t feel pressure as a young person.”
After kissing woman the world opened up
The actress calls herself a ‘late bloomer’, but thinks this would have been different if she had been born twenty years later. Wilson discovered later in life that she is not only attracted to men, but also to women. That was partly thanks to a movie kiss with actress Charlotte Gainsbourg.
In today’s society this is very normal, but when she was growing up, she thinks it was less so. “I just knew I was attracted to men, and that was the normal thing,” she says. The actress previously worked with entrepreneur Jacob Busch. Before she got involved with him, she added another ‘year of love’. She went on as many dates as possible in 2019, hoping to find love.
After her father died, the actress opened up a bit more. Previously she didn’t have to think about getting married, but then she did. At first a relationship with a woman was not an option, then it was. Wilson got together with fashion designer Ramona Agruma in 2021, and they are now engaged. In late 2022, Wilson welcomed daughter Royce via a surrogate mother. The actress called that a ‘miracle’. She had previously entered into a process with a surrogate mother, but she had a miscarriage.
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