In a new Guardian interview, former Spice Girl Mel B opens up about the four-year relationship she had with another woman before her marriage to Stephen Belafonte.
The singer, who was known as "Scary Spice" during her initial pop reign and is a judge on the British version of "The X Factor," says the woman in question is Crista Parker, a woman whose children attended the same school as her own daughter, Phoenix Chi Gulzar, who is now 15 years old.
“People call me lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual, but I know who’s in my bed and that’s it," she told The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone. "I have a huge libido and a great sex life.”
The star then added, "Well, I did have a four-year relationship with a woman. But I’ve been very happily married for seven years to a penis. Ha ha! An amazing guy.”
While she stresses that she and Belafonte have a "very tight and solid" relationship that isn't open, she added, "But I will be the first one to compliment a woman, to say to my husband, ‘Oh my God, look at her legs;’ or ‘Doesn’t she look stunning?’ I do think women are gorgeous. Crazy but gorgeous."
Read the full Guardian interview here.
Earlier this year, Mel B. told British TV host Alan Carr that she was "just one of those ladies" who had sexual experiences with women, according to the Daily Mail.
In 2013, she told Howard Stern that she'd "kissed all" of her Spice Girls bandmates.
"I got my tongue pierced and I wanted to try out my tongue piercing and so I kissed them all," she said at the time. “Back in the day I had fun."
CLARIFICATION: This article has been updated to specify that Mel B. is a judge on the British and not the U.S. version of "X Factor."
Before You Go
In a 2011 Esquire interview, Megan Fox confirmed her bisexuality, stating, "I think people are born bisexual and then make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man."
The Green Day front man opened up about his sexuality in a 1995 interview with The Advocate: "I think I've always been bisexual. I mean, it's something that I've always been interested in. I think everybody kind of fantasizes about the same sex. I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing."
Comedian Margaret Cho has long been open about her sexuality. In August 2013, Cho discussed the semantics surrounding her open marriage to artist Al Ridenour, saying that she's "technically not able to stay with one person sexually because I’m bisexual,” and joking that she just “can’t stop up that hole.” She also identifies as queer, and opened up about her sexuality in an interview with HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-At-Large Michelangelo Signorile.
Twice-married record executive and music mogul Clive Davis came out as bisexual in his 2013 memoir, The Soundtrack Of My Life. Davis opened up about two long-term relationships he had with men after his divorce from his second wife.
Actress Bai Ling is openly bisexual -- and the identity category has often provided some humorous mix-ups involving her first name. According to GLAAD, she discussed it in-depth in a 2009 interview with Entertainment Weekly: "[A]t first when I was in the United States I didn't always have an interpreter in interviews and I didn't speak English so well. There was some confusion. My name is pronounced 'bi,' so when I was asked, 'Are you bi?' I said, 'Yes, I am Bai.' Do you like men? 'Of course!' Do you like women? 'Why yes!' And later I found out what that means and I said, 'Sure, I am bi!' But I think the interpreters and the reporters thought that I didn't know what I was saying because I was so open about it. They were uncomfortable about it. Such a thing is not important for me."
The "Portlandia" star and former guitarist and vocalist for Sleater-Kinney is often assumed to identify as gay. However, she told "Willamette Week" in 2012 that, "It’s weird, because no one’s actually ever asked me. People just always assume, like, you’re this or that. It’s like, ‘OK. I’m bisexual.’”
The star of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" revealed that she's bisexual in an "Inside Edition" interview in April 2015. Her daughter "Pumpkin" Lauryn Thompson also came out as bi at the same time.
