J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, left, and her rumored partner, Courtney Crangi
My aunt is engaged to a woman who used to be married to a man and has several children with him. It wasn’t a case where my aunt’s partner was cheating on her husband or anything; she was already divorced when they met. I never asked her if she considers herself gay or bisexual, it honestly just didn’t occur to me. She’s my aunt-in-law and she’s been with my aunt for a few years. The way I see it, you fall in love with someone and some people can fall in love with either gender. I’m not trying to make it sound like being gay or bisexual is a choice at all, I just think that some people are at different sides of the Kinsey scale and some people are more in the middle. For those people in the middle, it’s not as much of a leap to date someone of a different sex than your last partner.
All of this is a preface to this story making headlines about how the creative director of J.Crew, Jenna Lyons, left her husband of 10 years for a woman. I first read about this on TheFrisky and now People is covering it, with a photo of the other woman. This is how Melissa Etheridge met her partner Julie Cypher, who was married to Lou Diamond Phillips at the time. Sex & The City’s Cynthia Nixon also used to be married to a man before she met her current female partner. (Rojo caliente!)
Here she is: the alleged new woman in Jenna Lyons’s life.
Lyons, 43, the creative director of J. Crew, has reportedly become involved with Courtney Crangi, 38, the sister and business parter of jewelry designer Philip Crangi. The photo, from June, shows Lyons and Crangi together at the 2011 Summer With Off Duty Party in New York.
Lyons separated from Vincent Mazeau, her husband of nine years, this summer, according to the New York Post.
[From People]
I feel like if you cheat on your partner it doesn’t matter if you end up with someone of the same sex or not – you’re still cheating! Yes you might be having some personal revelation that you’ve been married to the wrong gender person for you, but really isn’t that what infidelity is all about, some personal revelation? We don’t know if that’s the case here and if Lyons was broken up with her husband before she met Crangi, or if they hooked up after she was separated. Reports say that she was having an affair. It’s not surprising though, it’s pretty much expected.
Also is that Crangi chick wearing a totally see through shirt without a bra? She’s dating the creative director from J. Crew for God’s sake, you would think she would look more put together than that.
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