While she's open about her sexuality, Paulson has no interest in pigeonholing herself. She has had serious relationships with both men and women in the past. "If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that’s going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don’t want to feel that," she explained. "My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore the idea that it is ‘other’ makes it compelling."