Last fall, Dove and Descendants 2 co-star Thomas Doherty ended their relationship after nearly four years together. “They never asked me to hide anything… It’s more that people see me and go, ‘Oh, femme, straight, heterosexual, blonde.’ Who is going to look at me and guess otherwise? Everybody knew Kristen Stewart was gay.

“.There was a lot of looking for male validation, right? Trying to please a massive corporation like Disney, I never had a conversation with them about my sexuality,” Dove explained. While she wasn’t forced to conform, she wasn’t necessarily encouraged to forgo a straight-passing identity, either. Dove began her run on the Disney Channel at age 15, shortly after the passing of her father.