Supermodel Patricia Velasquez Comes Out As Gay

Venezuelan supermodel Patricia Velasquez has come out as gay in a new memoir.

Velasquez, who has been dubbed the “first Latina supermodel,” opens up about her sexuality in her new book, Straight Walk. She writes that while working in the modeling world in the 1990s, she was living a lie that was “tortuous” and “eroding my soul bit by bit,” according to Yahoo Parenting.

Straight Walk hits shelves Feb. 10.

The Huffington Post