R. Kelly’s Daughter Jaah Kelly Speaks Out on Sexuality Years After Coming Out

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R. Kelly‘s daughter Jaah Kelly is talking her reality.

The 18-year-old, the second of the musician’s three kids and who can also be a music artist, opens up about her sexuality in an interview with Paper journal for its Satisfaction concern, printed on Thursday.

When Jaah was 14, she got here out as a transgender male, who was attracted to women, in feedback and a video posted to her now-closed Ask.fm account. On the time, she glided by the title Jay.

“Once I posted that video, I used to be so scared,” Jaah advised Paper. “Once I was youthful, I at all times felt like I had to choose. I knew that I used to be a lady who preferred different ladies. However due to what I used to be taught, I felt like the one means you might like one other woman is should you had been a boy.”

Jaah stated that these days, she identifies as a “lesbian.”

“I do know I like ladies, however that is so far as I am going to go to label myself,” she stated. “It is as much as you the way you see me. Both means, I do not care. I stand in my reality, and why does my reality want a label?”

She additionally stated that she does not thoughts if individuals check with her as male, feminine, genderfluid, or nonbinary.

Jaah recalled falling right into a melancholy and spending three weeks in a psychiatric hospital after popping out as transgender at age 14.

She additionally remembered how her vogue selections generally spurred strangers to inform her she was coming into the “unsuitable” public restroom.

“One time on the Satisfaction parade in Chicago, I used to be with [my sister] Buku and my cousin,” Jaah says. “My sister had to make use of the lavatory afterward, however she was in there some time, so I went in to verify on her. I saved placing my head within the toilet simply to ensure she was good. And this woman got here up and was like, ‘Sir, should you peek your head within the girls’s toilet once more, I’ll name safety.'”

Jaah stated she was carrying a button-down shirt, which was open to disclose a sports activities bra.

“So then I simply rotated and flashed her,” she stated. “She simply walked away in disgust after that. It was so humorous to me and Buku and sometimes nonetheless is so humorous—the thriller that folks do not know what gender I’m.”