Actress Maria Bello has confirmed that she’s in a relationship with a man — after breaking up with her girlfriend.
Bello is no longer linked with Clare Munn and is now a couple with Elijah Allan-Blitz, according to Us Weekly.
“I’m feeling very girly these days,” Bello, 48, said. “How about that? Maybe it’s getting to a particular age or dropping into myself or having written my book and feeling like the first part of my life’s over there and walking into the next part of my life.”
She continues to be open about her fluid approach toward sexuality.
In 2013, Bello wrote a personal essay for The New York Times, chronicling how she fell in love with her best friend. Pondering what love and couples mean, she wrote:
“And I have never understood the distinction of ‘primary’ partner. Does that imply we have secondary and tertiary partners, too? Can my primary partner be my sister or child or best friend, or does it have to be someone I am having sex with? I have two friends who are sisters who have lived together for 15 years and raised a daughter. Are they not partners because they don’t have sex? And many married couples I know haven’t had sex for years. Are they any less partners?”
After the success of that essay, Bello wrote the 2015 “Whatever … Love is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves” last year.
The title came from her son’s response when she told him she had fallen in love with her best friend, who happened to be a woman.
His response was “whatever, Mom, love is love.”
Bello had her son Jackson, 15, with Dan McDermott, a producer and writer.
Bello seems pretty happy with her new beau, who is 29 and an aspiring actor, among other jobs. Allan-Blitz had co-directed a promotional video for Bello’s book.
The two have been spotted canoodling around Los Angeles.
Bello starred in TV’s “ER” and in film’s “History of Violence,” among many other credits.
Bello is also starring in “Trial” with Billy Bob Thornton that will stream on Amazon this year.
