Stacy London's post announcing her relationship with Cat YezbakPhoto: Instagram/screenshot
Fashion expert and TV host Stacy London just announced on social media that she has been in a relationship for a year with another woman – her first same-sex relationship.
London has made numerous TV appearances over the last two decades as a fashion reporter on shows like Access Hollywood and the Today Show, but she is perhaps best known for co-hosting What Not to Wear on TLC from 2003 to 2013.
She explained that 2019 was a “crazy year,” both because of negative experiences and because “there has been such incredible joy as well and the person most responsible for that is @catyezbak, who is my girlfriend and has been for over a year.”
London said that her family has met Yezbak, but she was slow in announcing the relationship publicly.
“It’s really easy for me, a privileged white woman who is 50, to suddenly say ‘I’m dating a woman’ with very few repercussions and I am well aware of that,” she wrote. “Unlike me, there are countless people in the LGBTQIAP community who have had no choice in who they are, no love from family on which to lean, no support from anyone anywhere.”
“I fell in love, truly in love, with this beautiful, sexy, kind soul and I won’t apologize for that but I stand on the shoulders of a community that fought like hell for me to be able to do that openly and proudly and EASILY.”
As for her sexual identity, she just wrote: “I used to date men. Now I date her. That’s it.”
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