Cultural icon Julia Fox has come out as pansexual.

The revelation comes a year after she appeared to come out as a lesbian in a TikTok video. The actor and author – known for her signature eye makeup, avant-garde style, headline-making 2022 relationship with the rapper now known as Ye, and her breakthrough role in the 2019 film Uncut Gems – also made comments about having sworn off men for more than two years while raising her young son.

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“I’m pansexual,” she declared during her recent cover story interview with Allure. “I could be attracted to anyone and anything. If it were just down to the physical, I’m more attracted to the female body. Men don’t do it for me at all [physically], but I can be attracted to a man’s mind. I’m a vibes person.”

In October 2024, she told The Times she “thinks” she’s a lesbian and that she’d “definitely be up for a relationship with a woman.”

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“You cannot equate that to a relationship with a man,” she said at the time. “With a woman, you’re with your bestie, whereas ultimately men are always going to prioritize other men over you. Men love other men and masculine sh*t, and watching homoerotic things such as wrestling and football. In this toxic culture, I don’t think there’s room for them to love me.”

These days, her feelings on men don’t seem to have changed. “The way my life is, I can’t see why a man would be beneficial,” she told Allure. “I’m laser-focused on being a good mom, on being a good provider, on making my dreams come true. There’s just so much more you can do with your time than waiting around to see if a guy’s going to text you back or not.” 

She said she doesn’t miss being with them “at all.”

She said it took her a while to settle into her pansexual identity, adding that she thinks it’s harder for women to realize they’re queer “because we are so programmed to perform for men.”

Fox has since looked back at her self-described “psycho codependent” friendships and realized they were actually relationships.

“But there was no way I was going to admit that to myself,” she said, “and I couldn’t because so much of my survival was hinged upon men taking care of me.”

Fox has been hinting that she is not straight (and more or less off men) for some time now. In a 2022 interview with comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, she said she thought she had “a gay bone” that she needed to explore.

“Maybe my ex-boyfriends weren’t wrong when they were calling me a lesbian and complaining that I never wanted to have sex with them,” she said.

Throughout that entire interview, Fox also made it clear that she was done with men.

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