{"id":28778,"date":"2019-08-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1064281"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"when-cara-delevingne-was-not-looking-for-love-she-met-ashley-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/when-cara-delevingne-was-not-looking-for-love-she-met-ashley-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"When Cara Delevingne Was Not Looking for Love, She Met Ashley Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.154220779221\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019712\/rs_634x778-190812141814-Cara-Delevingne.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Cara Delevingne, Marie Claire, September 2019\" alt=\"Cara Delevingne, Marie Claire, September 2019\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Thomas Whiteside<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.450937155458\">\n<p>Sometimes love finds you\u2014just ask&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cara_delevingne\">Cara Delevingne<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As fans well know, the model and actress, who will next star in Amazon Prime&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Carnival Row<\/em>, has been dating fellow actress&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ashley_benson\">Ashley Benson<\/a><\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1050280\/cara-delevingne-shares-the-special-reason-why-she-went-public-with-ashley-benson-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than a year now<\/a>. The pair have spurred plenty of public interest and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1055678\/why-the-internet-thinks-cara-delevingne-and-ashley-benson-are-engaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even some engagement speculation<\/a>, though a source later told E! News the two are not married, but did have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1062124\/cara-delevingne-and-ashley-benson-are-not-married-but-did-have-a-friendship-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">friendship ceremony<\/a> about a year ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the two keep details of their romance to a minimum, Delevingne did reflect on her first meeting with Benson in the September issue of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/cara-delevingne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marie Claire<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t looking for it,&#8221; she told the magazine. &#8220;It was really just very authentic and natural.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, the star also touched upon her stance on gender. &#8220;The whole idea of gender is so fixed. I just want to, like, explode it,&#8221; the star told <em>Marie Claire<\/em>. &#8220;I&#8217;m not nonbinary, but I feel as much man as I am woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.367172675522\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.161290322581\">\n<p>While the actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1027668\/cara-delevingne-gets-incredibly-candid-about-sex-and-orgasms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been open<\/a> about gender and sexuality, it wasn&#8217;t always an easy topic of conversation.&nbsp;&#8220;My mom decided to tell me that Father Christmas wasn&#8217;t real. And in the same conversation, she said, By the way, let&#8217;s talk about the birds and the bees,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;I was like, this timing is terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The timing is far from terrible in her career as she has an upcoming starring role in <em>Carnival Row<\/em>&nbsp;with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/orlando_bloom\">Orlando Bloom<\/a><\/strong>and, in her words, it&#8217;s &#8220;the first [thing] I&#8217;ve done where I&#8217;m really full-blown acting.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019712\/rs_634x799-190812141814-Cara-Delevingne-Marie-Claire.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Cara Delevingne, Marie Claire, September 2019\" alt=\"Cara Delevingne, Marie Claire, September 2019\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Thomas Whiteside<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>Acting down to her own stunts. &#8220;If I hadn&#8217;t done them, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to get there emotionally,&#8221; she told the magazine. &#8220;Physicality to me is a very important way of expressing emotions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, with both her professional and personal lives busy, the 27-year-old is trying to find the balance. &#8220;Work to me was such an escape. I don&#8217;t like using it that way anymore,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I want to use it as a platform, something where I&#8217;m not just running from my problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The September issue of&nbsp;Marie Claire hits newsstands on Aug. 22.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1064281\/when-cara-delevingne-was-not-looking-for-love-she-met-ashley-benson?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Whiteside Sometimes love finds you\u2014just ask&nbsp;Cara Delevingne.&nbsp; As fans well know, the model and actress, who will next star in Amazon Prime&#8217;s&nbsp;Carnival Row, has been dating fellow actress&nbsp;Ashley Benson for more than a year now. The pair have spurred plenty of public interest and even some engagement speculation, though a source later told E! 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