"Gay marriage wasn't legal when Lauren and I decided to commit to one another and have a baby together," she wrote in her book. "The decision was an easy one, not like when it had been presented to me before. It made sense. Lauren was an amazing woman and I was excited to bring a life into the world with her. The second we received confirmation she was pregnant, I felt like my entire life had changed for the better."
Velasquez is currently in a relationship with a woman named Ileanna, who is also from Venezuela. She told Yahoo! Parenting they have been together for the past year.
In her memoir, Velasquez wrote about several past partners. She said she was "in love" with a woman named Sandra.
She and the comedienne and Roseanne alum Sandra Bernhard, who came out as bisexual years ago, had been linked together several times in the press but never confirmed a relationship.
In a 1998 interview with The New York Times, Bernhard had mentioned Velasquez by name while talking about several of her friends. In 2001 Velasquez told Cinema.com, "Look, she was a very, very important person in my life—and she still is. She was a friend, she was like a mother to me, and also like my daughter sometimes...Sandra is somebody that I have in my heart forever, because I didn't even speak English when I met her, and she taught me so much."
According to The New York Post, the two met backstage at a fashion show. In the book, she said she realized she was "in love" with her a few months later, while she was on a "Frida Kahlo-themed shoot" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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