"I've had conversations with people who I've known, loved, and trusted, and still do, who thought, you know, your career would do better if you didn't go outside holding your girlfriend's hand. And I was like, 'So, you want me to live a partial life. And you want me to uphold and perpetuate and sustain a system that excludes people.' And I just can't do that."
"I protected my relationships when I was on the cover of tabloids, and it was very obvious who I was dating, and it was like, 'You guys are getting it all anyway... I don't need to caption this for you.' But what I didn't want to do was hide from the world that we live in. I want to define it. I want to make it a more open and accepting place."
Kristen Stewart came out publicly while hosting a 2017 Saturday Night Live episode to emphasize that hiding prevents people from fully accessing life. She described conversations with people she loved who suggested her career would benefit from avoiding public displays with a girlfriend, and she rejected living a partial life or upholding systems that exclude people. Stewart protected relationships from tabloids and resisted commodifying private details, but chose openness to help define a more accepting world. Stewart dated Robert Pattinson early in her career and married Dylan Meyer last year while promoting The Chronology of Water.
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