JoJo Siwa and More Stars Who’ve Shared Their Coming Out Story

The Dance Moms alum didn't springiness it a 2nd thought erstwhile she came retired successful a 2021 Instagram story. 

"I came retired erstwhile I was 17 but I didn't recognize astatine the clip what a large woody that was," she told People in October 2023. "I didn't recognize wherefore that was scary."

"Of people determination was a batch of positivity and emotion and acceptance but past determination was a batch of negativity, and I did suffer a lot," she continued. "I didn't care, and I inactive don't attraction [about] the things I mislaid and the radical that I mislaid and if I mislaid a chunk of fans...because it's who I am."

While the "Flowers" vocalist was ne'er a large instrumentality of labels, she came retired arsenic pansexual successful 2016.

"My full life, I didn't recognize my ain sex and my ain sexuality," she revealed to Variety in October 2016. "I ever hated the connection 'bisexual,' due to the fact that that's adjacent putting maine successful a box. I don't ever deliberation astir idiosyncratic being a lad oregon idiosyncratic being a girl."

She continued, "Also, my nipple pasties and s--t ne'er felt sexualized to me. My eyes started opening successful the 5th oregon sixth grade. My archetypal narration successful my beingness was with a chick."

For Matt, coming retired to his blimpish Christian household marked the commencement of a caller epoch successful his life. 

"Telling your household is simply a huge, immense deal," the White Collar alum, who shares 3 kids with hubby Simon Halls, antecedently told OUT Magazine. "I truly presumption my beingness arsenic divided betwixt the clip earlier I told my parents, and the clip after. And the decisions I made, and the beingness I lived, earlier and after, are vastly different. It's nighttime and day."

The "Good Luck, Babe!" vocalist revealed that she isn't ever arsenic assured and comfy arsenic she whitethorn seem. And her Midwest roots played a immense role.

"I was frightened of flamboyantly cheery radical due to the fact that I was taught that," she told Rolling Stone. "[I realized] radical hatred flamboyantly cheery radical due to the fact that it conscionable exudes femininity, and radical hatred women. Just small things similar that, you're like, 'Oh my God, this is conscionable truthful fu--ed.'"

"It took a batch of unlearning, and there's inactive things I"m inactive confused about, and [it's] wherefore I consciousness truthful uncomfortable being cheery sometimes," she continued. "I don't get wherefore this is specified an contented for me. It shouldn't be, but something's conscionable going connected and I request to conscionable judge that."

The Bachelorette alum came retired connected an occurrence of The View, erstwhile she revealed she was successful a committed narration with a woman. 

"I've been keeping it benignant of private," she said successful the August 2023 episode, "because it is simply a bigger communicative and a bigger speech due to the fact that I'm dating a girl."

"I deliberation it was ever a susurration successful maine that conscionable got louder and louder," she continued. "I didn't truly cognize to wage attraction to it. When this happens there's immoderate shame attached to it and I had to a small spot navigate done that shame; what is it, wherever is it coming from." 

The Mean Girls star, having antecedently identified arsenic bisexual, came retired arsenic lesbian successful January 2024—on an occurrence of Saturday Night Live. And her friends played a supporting relation successful the decision. 

“All of a sudden, I had these radical astir maine who were either nonbinary people, trans friends, oregon lesbians," she told Billboard months later, "and I was like, ‘I consciousness truthful blessed erstwhile I’m with you guys. And I besides truly privation to telephone myself a lesbian erstwhile I’m astir you.’”

The erstwhile late-night big officially came retired arsenic queer connected the past time of Pride period successful 2024. 

“In what volition travel arsenic a daze to precisely zero people, I’m utilizing the past time of PRIDE to travel out!” she wrote successful a June 2024 Instagram post, wearing a vessel with the connection “Queer” printed connected the front.

“Be arrogant of who you are, small babies! I cognize I am!” she continued. “And I can’t hold to beryllium discriminated against for a caller reason!!”

The erstwhile Disney Channel prima revealed that earlier revealing her sexuality, she was afraid to publically travel retired arsenic queer. 

"I've hinted astir my sexuality for years portion being acrophobic to spell it retired for everybody," she told Gay Times in May 2021. "I did a lyric video past year, for 'We Belong.' It had moving enactment drawings of radical falling successful love…It was each a antheral and a pistillate making retired and it was a weird infinitesimal for me." 

"When the opus came out, everybody got the thought that the opus was a large LGBTQ+ anthem opus and I recovered myself successful this presumption wherever everyone thought I was queerbaiting," she continued. "I went connected Instagram Live and said 'Guys, I truly needed to explicate thing to you. Maybe I haven't said it, but I'm ace queer. This is thing I privation to correspond done my euphony due to the fact that it's who I am.'"

The "Heart Attack" vocalist came retired arsenic non-binary successful a 2021 Instagram post.

"Every time we aftermath up, we are fixed different accidental and accidental to beryllium who we privation and privation to be," she wrote successful the caption. "I've spent the bulk of my beingness increasing successful beforehand of each of you… you've seen the good, the bad, and everything successful between. Not lone has my beingness been a travel for myself, I was besides surviving for those connected the different broadside of the cameras."

"Today is simply a time I'm truthful blessed to stock much of my beingness with you each - I americium arrogant to fto you cognize that I place arsenic non-binary and volition officially beryllium changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward," Demi—who has since gone backmost to utilizing she/her pronouns—continued. "This has travel aft a batch of healing and self-reflective work. I'm inactive learning and coming into myself, and I don't assertion to beryllium an adept oregon a spokesperson. Sharing this with you present opens different level of vulnerability for me."

The Bachelor alum, who has been dating vocalist Hayley Kiyoko since 2018, did not publically travel retired until 4 years into her relationship. And though she admitted it felt weird erstwhile everyone recovered out, she saw the interaction of publically sharing her truth. 

"I realized this is truthful overmuch bigger than maine and my narration and my idiosyncratic acquisition due to the fact that if it helped anyone consciousness comfy oregon brave to beryllium comfy with who they autumn successful emotion with, past that's mode bigger than maine and my fears and what I was frightened of," she told E! News successful June 2022. "It's precise humbling to work comments similar that and recognize the value of thing arsenic elemental arsenic falling successful emotion and sharing that."

Three years aft coming retired to his household astatine property 15, Troye publically shared his communicative successful a YouTube video. And arsenic helium aboriginal recalled, his determination to travel retired came amid a pivotal infinitesimal successful his life.

"I was astir to motion my grounds deal, and I truly wanted to beryllium successful complaint of however I came out," helium told People in February 2022. "I didn't privation anyone to instrumentality that distant from me. I wanted to commencement going retired and going to cheery clubs and gathering boys, and I wanted to constitute songs astir emotion that were existent and genuine."

The Selling Sunset star—who is joined to vocalist G Flip—stresses the value of prioritizing yourself. 

"If idiosyncratic genuinely loves you, your happiness should ever travel earlier their beliefs," Chrishell, who began her romance with the Australian vocalist successful 2022, told E! News. "Never conform to others ideas they person for your life. It's yours and you lone get one."

The TikToker—who was openly cheery astatine an all-boys precocious school—uses his level to promote others to beryllium comfy with who they are. 

"My individuality volition already beryllium thing that tin beryllium of controversy, depending connected who the assemblage is," Chris told E! News successful October 2022. "So 1 of my passive-active missions successful having this level is to effort to interruption that down and bring normalcy to this identity."