Cara Delevingne in No Uncertain Terms: 'My Sexuality Is Not a Phase!'

In a new interview with the New York Times about her film Paper Towns (in theaters July 24), out model and actress Cara Delevingne clears up all discussion about her sexuality insinuated by Vogue reporter Rob Haskell, who suggested maybe that “to trust a man, she might have to revise an old and stubborn idea of hers — that women are perennially troubled and therefore only women will accept her.”

“My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am,” the 23-year-old, who is currently dating St. Vincent’s Annie Clark, said during her NYT interview.

Haskell derived his assertion that Delevingne need only to trust a man when she told him, ‘Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall. I have only been hurt by women, my mother first of all.”

She went on to say, ‘… if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I’d want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I’m a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.”

That’s when Haskell not only suggested she ‘trust a man’ but that her parents seem to think that her sexuality is a “phase.” In the Vogue piece he went on to pat himself on the back, writing that Delvingne smiled when he suggested she change her thinking. “Her smile says she concedes the point,” he wrote.

Delevingne’s awesome quote in the NYT about her sexuality marked the first time she responded to Haskell, but shortly after the interview dropped online the internet blew up with a petition signed by more than 13,000 people, demanding that Vogue acknowledge that sexuality is not a phase.

While Haskell’s profile inspired public outrage, Delevingne was more sanguine about the matter. She told the NYT she was ‘flattered’ by the public support that she didn’t view it as “malicious.”

Beyond Haskell’s questioning Delevingne’s identity, she did tell him directly that she is in a good place in life and in her relationship.

"I think that being in love with my girlfriend is a big part of why I'm feeling so happy with who I am these days," she said.  "It took me a long time to accept the idea, until I first fell in love with a girl at 20 and recognized that I had to accept it." 

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