She concluded that she got to “call her mine! Happy one month to my girl! I love you more and more every day!” I am so proud to be me.She talked about her girlfriend while tagging on the post as the happiest, loving, supportive, protective, and the most beautiful perfect person around the world. "But for the first time, personally, I am like, whoa, happiness. "Performing has always made me super happy," she adds. "I think this is the first time that I've felt so personally happy."
"I've never gotten this much support from the world," she says. My daughter's never watching you again.' I couldn't sleep for three days."įor more from JoJo Siwa, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.īut Siwa found clarity: "My thing is, I don't want people to watch my videos or buy my merchandise if they aren't going to support not only me, but the LGBTQ community."Īnd new fans Elton John, Meghan Trainor, Kerry Washington and more applauded her openness. "A lot of them were, 'I'm never buying your merch again. I was thinking that all the comments were going to be nice and supportive, and they weren't," she says. "I have a lot that could have gone away because of my love life," Siwa says.Įver connected to her fans, she Googled herself. "A mother knows.") They both also knew it was a risk to tell the world. "I've known since I was little," Siwa says. But it was: Never before has someone with such a young fan base identified publicly as LGBTQ. "I never wanted to be a big deal," she adds. I want to know about you.' And I was like, No one's ever asked me that before." "I told her my whole spiel that I tell everyone when they ask me my life story," Siwa remembers. RELATED: DaBaby Says He Asked JoJo Siwa to Perform with Him at the 2021 Grammys: 'We Love Her' "Technically I would say that I am pansexual because that's how I have always been my whole life is just like, my human is my human." I always just say gay because it just kind of covers it or queer because I think the keyword is cool." "But like, I don't know, bisexual, pansexual, queer, lesbian, gay, straight. And so I say that I'm Ky-sexual," she says. At first, Jojo didn't want to put a "label" on her sexuality. And was inspired by her love for Prew, which began as friendship and turned romantic in late 2020. Siwa says the announcement was the last thing she hadn't shared wtih the world. "It's nice to have somebody in my life like that." "She never cares what the internet said about us," she says. Siwa also declared her love for girlfriend Kylie Prew, 18. And with a very direct t-shirt - BEST GAY COUSIN EVER - she confirmed it.
When she lipsynched Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" following a day with TikTok collective Pride House LA, fans wondered if she was revealing something about her sexuality.
In January, Siwa came out as LGBTQ, over a series of posts on TikTok and Instagram. It's also became a gateway to community and support. RELATED: JoJo Siwa Celebrates First Valentine's Day with Girlfriend Kylie: 'Most Perfect Person Ever' There are a lot of times where I just will throw my phone down and lay on my bed and look at the ceiling and cry for a second." "Do I ever have breakdowns? Yes, of course I do. "My struggles deal with being overworked and not getting any sleep," Siwa says.
Watch the full episode of People Cover Story: JoJo Siwa on or on the PeopleTV app.īut the world's happiest human does have bad days. "I go to the bathroom on my toilet with my face on it," she says before unleashing an echoing cackle. And she loves Ariana Grande and Grey's Anatomy. She FaceTimes with her girlfriend, Kylie Prew, 18, constantly.
RELATED: From Dance Moms to Super Stardom: JoJo Siwa's Career in PhotosĪfter earning her GED two years ago, her work life consists of rehearsing, filming - right now, her new summer movie The J Team - editing videos, TikTok-ing and signing off on products bearing her name and image.