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Layla Taylor is finally sharing her truth.

The Secret Wives of Mormon Wives star came out as bisexual while publicly addressing her sexuality for the very first time.

“It’s just something that I honestly didn’t really know how to formally address for a long period of my life,” Layla shared on the June 29 episode of the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast. “I’m gay and I’m bi and date women and men.”

Growing up Mormon, the 25-year-old detailed how her religious Utah upbringing didn’t allow her to openly express her attraction to both sexes.

“Growing up, I didn’t fit in for a lot of reasons in my childhood,” Layla—who shares two kids with ex-husband Clayton Wessell—recounted to host Jay Shetty. “I grew up in a very predominantly white area, and being a little Black girl, I already stood out so much to my peers and took that on a lot more than I feel like I realized.”

“I always had these thoughts and I kind of laugh about it now,” she continued, “because I would be watching shows like Pretty Little Liars and I would watch, like, Shay Mitchell kissing a girl. I was like, ‘Wait, why is that hot?'”

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At the time, Layla didn’t fully understand the feelings. But that changed when she began to see “queer representation around me I could look at it and be like, ‘OK, this is normal.'”

The reality star even admitted she “didn’t know if it was just a phase” before getting married (the former couple divorced in 2025).

“I would just kind of underplay it for a long period of my life,” she confessed, adding, “I just feel like I’m finally in the era that I’m over not being truly myself and I’m over not showing every part of Layla to the world. I’m very proud now to be out.”

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Layla also confirmed none of her SLOMW costars knew about her bisexuality until now.

“I feel like me coming out, it’s not really a text,” the influencer admitted. “I feel like I want to see them in person to let them know. So they might see this before and then I’ll talk to them in person the next time I see them. But yeah, for right now, no one from the group knows.”

And, following her breakup from Mason McWhorter earlier this year, Layla revealed she’s currently dating a woman, whose name she kept private.

“[Women are] already more emotionally aware about certain things and very patient,” the MomTok star said. “I feel like at least who I’m talking to right now, she’s just been very understanding and letting me take this at my own pace because it is just still foreign to me and it is so new. [It’s the] level of understanding and just being there for me.”

Layla certainly isn’t alone. Keep reading for more celebs’ coming out stories in honor of Pride Month.

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Miley CyrusThe Hannah Montana alum was asked by Variety in 2016 when she first identified herself as pansexual. As she explained, “I went to the LGBTQ center here in L.A., and I started hearing these stories. I saw one human in particular who didn’t identify as male or female. Looking at them, they were both: beautiful and sexy and tough but vulnerable and feminine but masculine. And I related to that person more than I related to anyone in my life.”

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Jazz JenningsFor the Dazed spring 2016 issue, the I am Jazz star and Youtuber described her battle with her sexuality by mentioning, “That’s what it is to be pansexual, you know—loving people for who they are on the inside, no matter their label. Just loving someone. So I guess I am pansexual, but I don’t know because I haven’t fallen in love.”

Natalie NegrottiOn an episode The Challenge: Final Reckoning the reality star revealed during a confessional, “So, I’m pansexual, and I’m OK with that now.”

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Asia Kate DillonLast year the Orange is the New Black star admitted to the Huffington Post that she “identified as pansexual and [has] always felt like [she] had the spiritual, emotional, physical capability of being attracted to any gender.”

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Caitlin StaseyAt the GLAAD Awards in 2014, AfterEllen.com asked the Reign actress if she considered herself pansexual. She responded saying, “Yeah! It’s not a big deal to me. I don’t really discern a difference between attraction for men or women.”

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Janelle MonaeThis past April, the famous singer revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that she identified as more than bisexual, “…later I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too.’ I’m open to learning more about who I am.”

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Brooke CandyIn 2014 the American actress explained in an interview with HungerTV, “I’m a feminist, I’m young and I’m gay (though I’ve now come to the conclusion that I feel more pansexual). I feel like I’m awakening to this new stage of consciousness but my message will always be the same.”

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Amandla StenbergTwo years ago the Hunger Games actress discussed her sexuality in a video for Rookie stating, “I would also use the word pansexual to describe my sexuality. The thing is I use the word bisexual just because I feel like for people who don’t necessarily know that vocabulary…it’s easier to say I’m bi.”

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Courtney ActThis past February the Celebrity Big Brother winner and RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist was very candid about how she labels her sexuality in an interview with Attitude Magazine. She mentions, “The reason I identify as pansexual is not because I wander around the street looking at women thinking I wanna bang ’em, it’s because I’ve had sexual and emotional experiences with women, and I don’t count that out as being a possibility.”

Brendon UriePanic! at the Disco‘s lead vocalist confirmed his sexuality in a Paper Magazine interview. He admitted,”I guess you could qualify me as pansexual because I really don’t care. If a person is great, then a person is great […] I guess this is me coming out as pansexual.”

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Angel HazeBack in 2013 the American rapper was asked by Fusion TV if she identified as pansexual. She responded, “If I had to identify, that is the term I’d use to describe how I feel.”

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