Shailene Woodley Describes Herself as a 'Very Sexual Person,' Says Former Partner 'Helped Me Discover Myself'

Mar. 15, 2025

Shailene Woodley on June 9, 2024.Photo:Stefanie Keenan/Getty

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Shailene Woodleyoften likens sex to dancing!

While promoting her new Starz series,Three Women,and her charity,All It Takes, on the Tuesday, Sept. 24th episode of theSHE MDpodcast, Woodley, 32, described herself as “a very sexual person” during a larger conversation revolving around women’s health matters and societal expectations around sex with co-hosts Dr. Thais Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney.

“I always have been. I was very lucky in my life as a young person, discovering myself and my body, to have a partner at the time who loved to dance,” she said. “I always call it a dance — it’s a dance, we’re exchanging energy. Sometimes the dance is like a really fast tango, and sometimes the dance is a really slow groove, and sometimes it’s loud and sometimes really soft.”

Shailene Woodley on Sept. 9, 2024.Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images

Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images

The actress recalled that she “had somebody that helped me discover myself because there was a sense of comfortability together” during a relationship in her adolescence, though she took care not to name the former partner in question.

“I think that I probably did the same for him,” she added.

While speaking further about people’s relationships with sex on the podcast, Woodley likened porn to “junk food.”

Shailene Woodley on March 5, 2024.Stefanie Keenan/Getty

“This is what we’re being sold when all of these other things are possible with my body because I’m like a magic machine?” she said. “Pleasure is so important and we just rip each other off of it because I think we don’t necessarily even know what’s possible, and that’s my big beef with porn. You’re selling everybody McDonald’s when you could have, like, woah — much better quality!”

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New episodes ofThree Womendebut Friday on Starz. Woodley also has a new movie,Killer Heat, now streaming on Prime Video.

source: people.com