She says acting has also been great, because “on days when it's really hard to be myself, it's really easy to be somebody else.“I feel like Outer Banks would be more realistic if they acknowledged racism more,” wrote one fan on Twitter back in 2020, just one month after the series premiered. I'm able to put myself in other people's shoes easily, and deliver empathy with authenticity.”īailey has turned to meditating and crystals to help her cope with the disorder. ![]() ![]() But it allows me to connect with so many more people. Being sensitive was such a hard thing that's another one of the main components of this disorder - having an exposed nerve to every emotion and feeling. I have a very broad personality, which allows me to connect with a lot of people. “One of the main is that likes and dislikes change often, so my aesthetic changes often. “There's a lot of pros and cons to my disorder,” she added. I got my diagnosis, and that's what I needed - a word to call it other than ‘crazy.’ I started realizing my own triggers.” I'm very internal with the way that I like to deal with things, and I like to self-educate on a lot of things. I'm figuring it out day by day on my own,” she said. “It's not something I know everything about. Something that has been more difficult to navigate for Bailey has been living with borderline personality disorder, which she was diagnosed with around age 17. “It was like, ‘Fine, Madison, be gay, I don't care.’ And, then I told my dad and he goes, ‘I know.’” “It was so hard not to start laughing,” she continued. “My mom was like, ‘What don't I know about you?’ I was like, ‘You don't even know I've been dating a girl for a month,’ and she goes - in the thickest southern accent there ever was - ‘Fine, Madison, be gay.’” “I was like, ‘You don't even know anything about me!’ being really melodramatic,” she shared. ![]() The moment came during an argument when Bailey was 18. “I dated a girl when I was 18 and was like, ‘Yay, I'm gay… but I still like boys, so I guess I’m bi.’ I went a couple of months feeling like I was bi, then I worked with a trans boy on a show and we dated and I was like, ‘What does that make me? I guess I’m pan.’ I just went with the flow.”īailey said that while she had an easy coming-out experience compared to many others, she was scared to tell her mother, who is from Alabama. “ basically just loving people for people, regardless of gender or any type of sexuality or any type of anything,” she added, opening up about her own sexual discovery. ![]() “It was my first time being surrounded by solely my community and I learned so much, not just about other people’s sexuality and gender, but my own.” “I experienced my very first Pride in Atlanta and it was a really good time,” she recalled. In the meantime, Bailey is celebrating Pride Month, sharing how significant the annual event is in her own life. The couple have decided not to go a month without seeing each other, meaning their next catch-up should be in July. You see her loyalty and dedication in the things that she cares about. She's very gentle-hearted, kind, loving, and you see that in the way she loves basketball her family. “I had zero hesitation to post on social media about it because I was like, ‘No matter what happens, you will be in my life forever.’ I care about her so much. “It’s very serious,” Bailey added about the romance.
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