Rebel Wilson reveals she lost her virginity at 35
Rebel Wilson, 44, revealed she lost her virginity at 35.
The actress shared her story in hopes that it would send a “positive message” to others.
She told People she included the revelation in her upcoming memoir, Rebel Rising, due out April 2, to reassure young people that “not everyone needs to lose their virginity as a teenager.”
She added: “People can wait until they are ready or wait until they are a little more mature. And I think that could be a positive message. Obviously, you don’t have to wait until you’re thirty, like me, but you shouldn’t feel pressure when you’re young.”
The Pitch Perfect actress remembers avoiding the subject as much as possible when she was a teenager because she was “embarrassed.”
“There was a vague moment, I think I said to my best friend, 'Oh yeah, I only did this to get it over with when I was 23,'” says Wilson. “Just to really avoid the questions.”
She tried to avoid the subject when it came up or dodge it as best she could.
“Normally I would just leave the room when the conversation was going on,” she said. “And then the people who said, 'Oh, at 24, it's so late.' And so I'm sitting here thinking, 'Oh my God, my number is 35. What the hell? I'm going to look like the biggest loser.'”
Although she calls herself a “late bloomer,” Wilson believes that if she were 20 years younger, her experience and exploration of her sexuality would have been “very different.”
“It's absolutely incredible, if I had been born 20 years later I probably would have explored my sexuality more. I just knew I was attracted to men and that was normal,” Wilson said.
“And then when I started opening up, probably more so after my father died and I realized, oh, even though I thought marriage was a terrible thing and a waste of time, I started opening up to it,” she added.
“And it wasn't until years later, meeting women and having feelings for a woman, and that, I just think is a sign of where society was at.”
Rebel Wilson is now engaged to designer Ramona Agruma. The actress welcomed her first child, Royce Lillian, via surrogate in November 2022.
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