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Hello Bravo Dykes, and welcome to another recap of the new Real Housewives of New York. I figured it was only a matter of time before we delved into Jenna Lyons’ dramatic coming out story, which involves being outed by the New York Post, and sure enough, it’s only episode two and we’re going there!
The episode takes place in the Hamptons during the off-season, Erin having invited the other Housewives to a three-night girls trip. Resident gay Housewife Jenna Lyons is immediately perplexed by the concept of a girls trip. She has never really been on one, has never had a “sleepover” with other adult women who she was not sleeping with. But girls trips are a staple of Real Housewives life. In proof, they are the locus of most of the homoerotic activity that occurs on these shows. Jenna is perhaps correct to be trepidatious about a weekend away with a crew of ostensibly straight women. I would be, too, even if I would also be fascinated by it from an anthropological standpoint.
Why is it that linear women asking for your coming out story hits so different than fellow queer women? I mean, I realize the answer to my own interrogate, of course. Lines of in
Jenna Lyons on Coming Out (and Existence Outed) After 40
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In 2011, the New York Post published an article outing Jenna Lyons, then 43 years old and the president and creative director of J.Crew. At the time, she was falling in devote with a female for the first time and still making sense of her feelings. Ten years later, now the star of HBO Max’s truths show Stylish With Jenna Lyons, Lyons tells the Trim what it was like coming out to herself at the same day the rest of the world set up out.
I have never really thought about how I name. There are markers in my experience, where I depart back and contemplate, God, I was really obsessed with Jodie Foster, or Tatum O’Neal in Bad News Bears. At the equal time, I also had wonderful relationships with men — loving and really healthy relationships with men. It wasn’t like I was in those relationships and something was just completely wrong.
When I first moved to New York, the only queer people I knew were men. I didn’t even recognize any gay women. So it wasn’t on my radar. And it also wasn’t something that I made a conscious decision about. Years la
It was a very secret moment that became extremely public for one of New York’s newest Housewives more than a decade ago. Jenna Lyons is now sharing more about her coming out exposure — and how it’s shaping her current romance life.
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On the newest episode of Season 14’s The Real Housewives Of New York City, Jenna opened up to the other ‘Wives about how it wasn’t her selection to reveal she was gay.
Jenna Lyons on Coming Out
Jenna was first romantically linked to artist Vincent Mazeau in 1996, and they married in 2002. They have a son together, Beckett, who is now 16. But the couple divorced in 2011, after nine years of marriage.
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Jenna told the other Housewives during a dinner in the Hamptons she first realized she was gay during a conversation with a close confidant, who was also male lover, around the time of her divorce.
“My relationship was falling apart with my husband, and I asked her, like, what happens with women — I was just curious,” Jenna told the women. “By t
Finally, after many years of me declaring that the Real Housewives universe is inherently queer, we are living in a golden age of openly LGBTQ+ Real Housewives. I’m living my wildest Bravo Dyke dreams. The latest entry into this growing pool is Jenna Lyons, set to be a main cast member in the upcoming rebooted version of Real Housewives of New York City, a franchise that has been extended in need of an overhaul. Season 14 of RHONY will introduce a slew of fresh (and absurdly wealthy) Housewives, including Lyons, the queer former resourceful director and president of monumental fashion brand J.Crew. Here’s a quick primer on who Jenna Lyons is, why there was a media frenzy around her sexuality, and what we might expect in terms of Male lover Drama from the upcoming season of RHONY.
In the above trailer for RHONY’s upcoming 14th season, a fellow new Housewife asks Lyons if she came out, and Lyons replies: “That was done for me by the New York Post.”
Indeed, in 2011, the New York Post outed Lyons in a tabloid piece about her divorce from her ex-husband and father of her child, Vincent Mazeau. The piece detailed rumors about Lyons falling in love with a miss