Personal Life
In 1995, she denied she was a lesbian, saying she thought it was a fantasy of the gay community. There were rumours she went out with Martina Navratilova and Jodie Foster. She said "I've never met any of the women I'm supposed to have had affairs with".
Some ten years later, though, Hawkins's own website states that she is bisexual.
In 1994, she posed nude for Interview magazine. She met the photographer Bruce Weber and was asked if she could do a photo shoot with him. She had her own clothes when she showed up to the photo shoot but he had a dress he wanted her to try on. She did not think it looked very good on her. It got to the point where she only had a coat on and the photographer suggested she take that off too. By this stage she was not even thinking about how she looked as she felt quite comfortable with him. He later told her that giving her the unflattering dress was part of his plan to get her naked.
On November 18, 2008, she gave birth to a son, Dashiell Gaston Hawkins. He was named in part for Hawkins's longtime partner and manager, Gigi Gaston, who directed a documentary about Hawkins titled The Cream Will Rise.
In May 2010, Hawkins affiliated herself with Waterkeeper Alliance, an organization of on-the-water advocates who patrol and protect over 100,000 miles of rivers, streams and coastlines in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa. She is donating 100% of the proceeds of her single "The Land, the Sea, and the Sky" to the organization.
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