JoJo Siwa bought candid about her id. 

The Dance Mothers alum—who got here out as a lesbian in 2021 however now identifies as queer—detailed affect the general public had on her popping out journey and feeling the necessity to label herself amid her new romance with Chris Hughes.

“Once I got here out at 17, I stated, ‘I’m pansexual, as a result of I don’t care [about gender],'” JoJo stated in an interview with The Daily Mail printed June 20. “However then I form of boxed myself in and I stated, ‘I’m a lesbian.’ And I feel I did that due to the strain.”

As for the place that strain got here from, the 22-year-old pointed to a number of various factors, together with the LGBTQ neighborhood at massive.

“In a bizarre manner, I feel it got here a little bit from contained in the neighborhood at occasions,” she contemplated. “From folks I do know, from companions I’ve had. You simply get put on this world the place you are feeling like, since you now have stated, ‘Oh, I am a lesbian,’ you will have to be a lesbian. And the reality is, sexuality is fluid.”