Jenny Slate is enjoying "doing whatever she likes to do" now she is single.

Jenny Slate

Jenny Slate

The 'Secret Life of Pets' star isn't worried about being single for the first time in her life as she feels it good for her mental health.

She said: "This is the first time in my adult life that I haven't been in a relationship, that I'm just all alone, and I do whatever I like to do. Because I'm a person who also likes to keep an eye on my mental health and my body health, I've treated myself nicely."

And the 35-year-old actress - who previously dated 'Captain America' star Chris Evans - doesn't think there will be any more than usual media focus on her now she is single as "the system owns [a woman's] private life" anyway.

She added to Vanity Fair magazine: "I don't think anybody would. For me, it connects to a very deep-seated belief within a patriarchal system.

"If you're a woman, the system actually owns your private life; the system has an opinion on your decisions; the system has a verdict on how you have sex and who you have sex with, and anything in between. For me, I am not open to that. I get really pissed about it, because it's only my business."

Meanwhile, Jenny previously revealed she ended her romance with Chris because their lives are totally different.

Speaking about her ex, she shared: "Chris is a very, very famous person. For him to go to a restaurant is totally different than for me to go. I sit in my window and I say 'hi' to people on the street.

"I have more freedom because I'm not 'Captain America'. I'm mostly a cartoon. This is what I needed to do to feel normal. To be alone."


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