Kristen Stewart has confirmed she is dating Alicia Cargile

She said: "Right now I'm just really in love with my girlfriend. 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.

She told the new issue of Britain's Elle magazine: "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.

"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, 'How do I define that?' I'm not going to. Plus, I didn't want to mess 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."