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Abbi Jacobson and Jodi Balfour Publicly Announce They’ve Been Together For a Year

Abbi Jacobson (left) and Jodi Balfour (right) via Jodi’s Instagram.

Love is in the air! Broad City comedian Abbi Jacobson has been dating Bomb Girls star Jodi Balfour for a year! The pair recently uploaded loved-up pictures to Instagram for their 1-year-anniversary. Jodi captioned her Instagram post, pictured above, with “365 days of the best surprise of my life 💚.” Abbi wrote, along with her Instagram post pictured below, “One year with this incredible human. Don’t know how I got so lucky ❤️.” 

Abbi (left) and Jodi (right)

Abbi came out as bisexual in 2018. In an interview with Lisa Liebman from Vanity Fair, she said “I kind of go both ways. I date men and women. They have to be funny, doing something they love. I don’t know — I’ve never really been interviewed about this before.”

The news was nonchalantly included into season 5 of Broad City as well. Her character, Abbi Abrams, falls over at a fancy party and is attracted to the female doctor who looks after her at the hospital. When the doctor asks Abbi if her girlfriend brought her in, she said “No I don’t have a boyfriend… or a girlfriend.” 

Subtle resistance

Abbi’s character in Broad City finding or expressing her bisexuality in season 5 cuts through ice-cold takes on same-sex attraction. On the show, Abbi’s best friend Ilana has been wanting to sleep with Abbi for years but Abbi’s not interested. She isn’t desperately experimenting with any woman who’s interested; she’s a woman with her own unique taste and desire. 

It also shows how women in love aren’t just “gals being pals.” It’s sexual. Abbi and Ilana are as close as it gets, when it comes to friendship. They’ll even get naked in front of each other. But women can share a close friendship without it meaning there’s a mutual sexual attraction (sorry Ilana). Yes, even if one or both of them are into the same sex. 

Better late than never

Jodi Balfour, on the other hand, just came out this year. “On this last day of Pride month,” she wrote on Instagram, “I’m stepping away from my sense of inadequacy, my fear of taking up room not meant for me, and my need to do this right… to say how undeniably freeing it has been to finally embrace and explore my queerness; how flooded I feel with gratitude for how easy it’s been for me to share this with my community (I’m deeply aware that so many people fought to make it that way, and of how many people still don’t get to have this experience); and that even though it took me a long time to get here, it feels like coming home to myself in a way that’s burst life right open. Hope it’s been a happy month! I’m gonna keep celebrating.🧡#pride.”

Abbi understands coming to terms with your sexual orientation at a later age and is clearly supportive of her partner. On National Coming Out Day, 2020 – 2 weeks before she made it (privately) official with Jodi last year – Abbi showed her support on Instagram for fellow late bloomers: “Everyone is on their own timeline. It took me a very, very long time to realize who I am, and feel most me— and I’m still figuring it out. Happy #nationalcomingoutday🌈 to all the late bloomers + early ones. 📷”

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