Janelle Monáe says it's not surprising that she's polyamorous: 'I was never the girlfriend that would be jealous'
- Janelle Monáe said it's not surprising she's been in polyamorous relationships.
- "I was never the girlfriend that would be jealous," she told Vogue UK.
Janelle Monáe says it's no surprise that she's embraced polyamory as she's gotten older.
In a new interview with Vogue UK, the "Glass Onion" actress said that she "never was the girlfriend that would be jealous." She told the magazine she's been in several polyamorous relationships. "Looking back, I'm like – clearly!"
In 2018, Monáe came out as pansexual. In 2022, she revealed that she's nonbinary, and uses both she/her and they/them pronouns.
"I'm nonbinary, so I just don't see myself as a woman, solely," Monáe said during a 2022 appearance on "Red Table Talk." "I feel all of my energy. I feel like God is so much bigger than the 'he' or the 'she.' If I am from God, I am everything. I am everything, but I will always, always stand with women. I will always stand with Black women. But I just see everything beyond the binary."
The "Make Me Feel" singer echoed that sentiment in her Vogue UK interview, noting that "nothing about me speaks to binary. I don't think I had the words to express it before… I listened to my spirit and my spirit was screaming, 'You are a free-ass mothaf--ka!'"
"The more I am free in my thinking and living outside of the binary, I'm on a constant discovery of who I can be," she continued. "I can hold space for a lot of different things at the same time. I just felt like I wanted to free up my mind."
Part of freeing up her mind, was moving beyond her buttoned-up, suit-forward aesthetic. "Even when I was really, really wearing only suits," she told Rolling Stone, "I was either in a suit or you would find me at my own parties naked. It was no in-between."
These days, Monáe, who is promoting her new record, "The Age of Pleasure," says she's busy exploring her freedom.
"For me, sometimes that's reading a book before 6 a.m., sometimes it's having a party and being able to come dry and leave wet, kiss somebody that you just met, you know?"