Kate Nash has opened up about hiding her sexuality when she was younger.
During the interview at Originated from Cush Jumbo on Tuesday, November 5, ex SHINE star, 37, recalled an experience in elementary school that made her reluctant to speak openly about her bisexuality.
“I’m bisexual and I remember there was a bisexual girl in my elementary school last year and a new one came in last year,” Nash told Cush Jumbo. “And she’d be walking down the street reading a book. And everyone was like, ‘she’s so weird,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah,’ she says she’s bisexual, and we’re like, ‘Weird, what a freak,’ you know. ”
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She continued: “And then at school, I remember a girl saying to me, ‘That’s so gross, the thought of two girls kissing makes me sick,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, me too, ‘ But actually, I’m like, ‘I think I want to kiss girls, is there something wrong with me?’
Nash then told the presenter, 39, how diverse and accepting the environment was when she attended the BRIT school in her teenage years.
“Everyone is so cool and different and I had tons of gay friends who were telling me about all their sexual experiences and wanted to be open,” the “Foundations” singer recalled, adding that she was “finally able to kiss girls without having to pretend disgusting.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Nash also talked about being taught by her teachers that “masturbation is a sin.”
“The teacher was kind of laughing so I feel like the teacher kind of knew and because it’s like one of the boys said… ‘What about you?’ And she said, ‘Yes, that is a sin.’ And we’re all like, ‘Ah,’ because he’s talking about masturbation,” she said.
Nash added, “It was like I was masturbating every night like I was sinning my soul, sinning desperately.”
The “Mouthwash” artist also revealed that she “didn’t know you couldn’t get pregnant from masturbation” when she was “really little.”
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Kate Nash in February 2020.
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Nash is no stranger to talking about his private life.
In the 2017 interview The Independentshe spoke about the body shaming she dealt with in public.
“When you’re a woman, you have such a weird relationship with your body because — especially when you’re in public — you’re constantly judged,” Nash said.
She continued: “People comment on my body all the time in a really inappropriate way, in a way that I find completely offensive[. I] I saw it in the serious papers where they called me ‘too fat’ and ‘too ugly’ to be a pop star. It’s so weird, but people feel like they can tell you that.”
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