The notoriously low-key Kristen Stewart has opened up for the first time about her relationship with GF Alicia Cargile, telling Elle UK that right now she’s “just really in love with my girlfriend. We’ve broken up a couple times and gotten back together, and this time I was like, ‘Finally, I can feel again’.”
Kristen’s been linked to Alicia – herself a player (albeit behind-the-scenes) in the entertainment industry – since at least January 2015, when pics of the pair holding hands on a beach in Honolulu hit the tabloids.
She downplayed rumours of a relationship at the time, but when asked by Nylon mag last year to comment on her sexuality, she famously said: “Google me, I’m not hiding.” 
She also made a bang-on point about not feeling comfortable defining herself by ‘coming out’, and said that within the next few years, we as a society would hopefully just accept people for whatever they were / whoever they wanted to bang without trying to ‘figure them out’.
BUT. This is the first time she’s spoken publicly about dating a woman, making it newsworthy; the fact that she’s happy and loved-up with Alicia is particularly good news for every single on of their stands (and there’s a surprising amount).
Kristen also spoke to Elle about her differing experiences dating men vs women:
“When I was dating a guy I was hiding everything that I did because everything personal felt like it was immediately trivialised, so I didn’t like it,” she said. “We were turned into these characters and placed into this ridiculous comic book, and I was like, ‘That’s mine. You’re making my relationship something that it’s not.’ I didn’t like that. But then it changed when I started dating a girl. I was like, ‘Actually, to hide this provides the implication that I’m not down with it or I’m ashamed of it, so I had to alter how I approached being in public. It opened my life up and I’m so much happier.”
Bless <3
Source: Elle.
