Julianne Hough Says She Recently Told Her Husband She’s ‘Not Straight’
In the September issue of Women's Health, Julianne Hough reveals the "massive transformation" she undertook four months after marrying hockey player Brooks Laich.
The America's Got Talent host says that while developing her new workout method, Kinrgy, she began "delayer-ing" the survival tactics she'd used throughout her life.
Her new outlook helped her open up to her husband about her sexuality.
Four months after tying the knot with hockey player Brooks Laich in 2017, Julianne Hough began what she calls her “massive transformation.” As the 31-year-old recalls in the September issue of Women’s Health, Julianne found fulfillment—and a new side of herself—through developing the dance-based workout method Kinrgy.
With that massive transformation came worries that her new husband wouldn’t vibe with the new Julianne.
“I was connecting to the woman inside that doesn’t need anything, versus the little girl that looked to him to protect me,” she remembers. “I was like, ‘Is he going to love this version of me?’ But the more I dropped into my most authentic self, the more attracted he was to me. Now we have a more intimate relationship.”
That intimacy led Julianne to reveal something to Brooks about her sexuality that she hadn’t yet: “I [told him], ‘You know I’m not straight, right?’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you,’” she says.
“I think there’s a safety with my husband now that I’m unpacking all of this, and there’s no fear of voicing things that I’ve been afraid to admit or that I’ve had shame or guilt about because of what I’ve been told or how I was raised.”
Working on the method for Kinrgy also helped Julianne clear out some of her well-worn defense mechanisms.
“I’ve been de-layering all the survival tactics I’ve built up my whole life,” she says. “Now, I feel limitless.”
Julianne hopes the dance cardio workout will help spark transformative experience for others, as well.
“When I think about what I want to create, I want to help people connect back to their truest self,” says the America’s Got Talent judge. “When that happens, they can relate to the people around them with no filter and experience the world how we’re supposed to experience it—in its most pure form, which I believe is love.”
Read more about Julianne’s workout method, Kinrgy, and the new music she’s working on in the September issue of Women’s Health.
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