Anna Camp's Pride Awakening: Finding Herself in Love With Jade Whipkey

There’s a particular kind of freedom that comes from finally being yourself—and Pitch Perfect star Anna Camp is experiencing it in real time. At 43, she’s discovering what it means to show up authentically in a relationship, and she’s not holding back about how transformative that’s been.

Camp came out as bisexual in March during an appearance on the“I’ve Never Said This Before With Tommy DiDario”podcast, telling listeners,“I am very proud of myself for owning my sexuality at this age. I am a very strong person for doing it in somewhat of a spotlight with people criticizing and judging and making assumptions. I’m really proud to be bisexual.”Then came Jade Whipkey. The pair sparked romance rumors in May 2025 during a Los Angeles outing before going public one month later with a red carpet debut. Now, as Pride Month approaches, Camp is opening up about what this relationship has revealed to her—and it goes way deeper than the honeymoon phase.

Speaking at the MPTF NextGen Summer Party at Hollywood’s The Aster rooftop restaurant on Sunday, May 31, Camp told Us Weekly what sets this relationship apart. She doesn’t have to perform. She doesn’t have to shrink herself. With Whipkey, 25, she can cry, laugh, and take her time doing her makeup without worrying about keeping someone happy. That last part stings in the best way—because it speaks to something many women recognize from their own past relationships. For decades, Camp had been operating under a specific script: be what he needs, dial down your emotions, don’t be too much. With Whipkey, that script has been torn up.

“I don’t have to change who I am for love. I don’t have to dampen my emotions,”Camp said.“I don’t have to acquiesce to someone trying to tell me I’m too much or I’m too weird or I’m too this or too that.”She described herself as more“relaxed”with Whipkey—a stark contrast to her previous marriages to Michael Mosley (2010–2013) and Skylar Astin (2016–2019). But this isn’t about comparing partners. It’s about Camp comparing herself to herself: the version of her who was always moderating, and the version who’s finally getting to exist without a filter.

What makes Camp’s openness particularly striking is her perspective on what Pride means this year. She wants to be around other queer people“living out loud and proudly as themselves,”to normalize what she describes as simply the way some people exist.“There are gonna be queer people forever and always. There’s gonna be trans people forever and always. This is not something that can be stopped.”It’s a grounded, matter-of-fact stance—not a battle cry, just the truth as she sees it. And after a lifetime of performing for approval, Camp gets to spend her first Pride with someone who loves her exactly as she is.