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Ashlyn Harris shared a photograph of herself and girlfriend Sophia Bush after the actress publicly got here out as queer.
Shared through Instagram Story on Saturday, April 27, the picture options Harris, 38, in a white double-breasted swimsuit along with her hand across the 41-year-old Bush’s waist, who stuns in a inexperienced and white floral strapless gown. Harris gave the picture a one-word caption: “You.”
The pair walked the purple carpet individually on the thirty first annual White Home Correspondents’ Backyard Brunch in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
The previous U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Staff goalkeeper posted her help for Bush through Instagram on Friday, April 26. “Pleased with you, babe,” Harris wrote over a snap of the Glamour cowl story the place Bush spoke out about her sexuality. Although they only grew to become Instagram official, the athlete and the One Tree Hill alum have been courting since fall 2023, shortly after the 2 filed for divorce from their respective spouses: Ali Krieger and Grant Hughes.
Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush Courtesy of Ashlyn Harris/Instagram
“Sophia and Ashlyn insist they have been simply pals, however by all accounts, it was immediate chemistry,” a supply instructed Us Weekly shortly after Harris and Bush’s first date. “They love being collectively. They love sports activities and wish to do good on the planet.”
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris’ friendship turned romantic on the heels of their respective divorces from Grant Hughes and Ali Krieger, and so they’ve been quietly constructing their relationship. A supply solely instructed Us Weekly Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakups and having to begin over” in October 2023, one month after they started courting. […]
Bush broke her silence on her sexuality in a self-written Glamour cowl story that was revealed on Thursday, April 25, and denied claims that she cheated on Hughes. “As I got here into myself, I already felt it was my house. I feel I’ve all the time identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” Bush wrote. “Proper now I feel the phrase that finest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, really. And that feels fairly nice.”
From left: Ashlyn Harris, Kasie Hunt, Megan Murphy, Hilary Rosen, Sophia Bush, and Joanna Coles at White Home Correspondents’ Backyard Brunch. Paul Morigi/Getty Photographs for Haddad Media
Bush added that she has “skilled a lot security, respect, and love within the queer neighborhood” as each an ally and a member, however famous that she “type of hate[s] the notion of getting to return out” within the yr 2024.
Sophia Bush isn’t afraid to confess her previous romances weren’t all good. “My first expertise with love was extremely pure. The boy I beloved had been one among my finest pals from the time we have been 9 years outdated,” the actress wrote in a private essay revealed on Cosmopolitan in 2017. “In my 20s, when […]
“However I’m deeply conscious that we’re having this dialog in a yr after we’re seeing essentially the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood in fashionable historical past,” she continued. “There have been greater than 500 anti-LGBTQIA+ payments proposed in state legislatures in 2023, so for that purpose I wish to give the act of popping out the respect and honor it deserves.”
She defined: “I lastly really feel like I can breathe. I don’t assume I can clarify how profound that’s. I really feel like I used to be sporting a weighted vest for who is aware of how lengthy. I hadn’t realized how heavy it was till I lastly simply put it down.”