Kristen Stewart opens up about girlfriend Alicia Cargile

Kristen Stewart has opened up for the first time about her relationship with Alicia Cargile.

The 26-year-old actress - who was previously in a relationship with Robert Pattinson for five years - was first romantically linked with her personal assistant 18 months ago, but has never directly addressed the speculation until now, admitting she is overjoyed they have recently got back together.

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"Right now I'm just really in love with my girlfriend," she told the Elle UK. "We've broken up a couple of times and gotten back together, and this time I was like, 'Finally, I can feel again.'"

The Cafe Society actress admitted she is more open about her personal life now she's in a same-sex relationship and feels much happier that she is being less closed off to people.

"When I was dating a guy I was hiding everything that I did because everything personal felt like it was immediately trivialised, so I didn't like it," she said.

"We were turned into these characters and placed into this ridiculous comic book, and I was like, 'That's mine. You're making my relationship something that it's not.' I didn't like that.

"But then it changed when I started dating a girl.

"I was like, 'Actually, to hide this provides the implication that I'm not down with it or I'm ashamed of it, so I had to alter how I approached being in public. It opened my life up and I'm so much happier."

The Equals star recently insisted she doesn't want to define her sexuality.

She said: "Me not defining it right now is the whole basis of what I'm about. If you don't get it, I don't have time for you. There's acceptance that's become really rampant and cool. You don't have to immediately know how to define yourself.

"I had to have some answer about who I was. I felt this weird responsibility, because I didn't want to seem fearful. But nothing seemed appropriate. So I was like, 'F**k, how do I define that?' I'm not going to. Plus, I didn't want to f**k with other people. I didn't want to be this example: It's so easy. I don't want it to seem like it was stupid for them to have a hard time. I find the movement that's occurring to be so important, that I want to be part of it."

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