NEW YORK – Meredith Baxter, who played mother Elyse Keaton on the 1980s TV series "Family Ties," has revealed that she is a lesbian."I am a lesbian, and it was a later-in-life recognition of that fact," the 62-year-old actress said in an interview Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show.
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Please. I knew she was a lesbian when she married David Birney.
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LOL! No. Really? You knew it then? I thought they made the cutest couple on Bridget Meets Bernie. I loved that show.
Christina
I'm gonna go see if I can find a clip of Bridget loves Birney. They were two girls in love. One of them had a bad toupe.
Give me a break. Being in the closet is one thing. When you only want to fuck women, you know you're a lesbian so don't give the bull shit about it being a late life surprise.
This is not a surprise to me. And I don't care. But dayum, she has been in the sun waaaaaay too much. She's a bag of wrinkly,cascading skin. I always thot she was cute & sporty. Never the girly type at all. I loved her in that TV movie about that bulimic mom that would binge & purge at the grocery store then walk out like nothing had happened. Not buy a damn thing but ate half the store! What was that movie called? & as Betty Broderick she was awesome. 2 TV movies about that. She's a good actress. I always liked her. I don't care who she sleeps with.
rox
She's in her 60's though. I'd rather see her like that than pinched, pulled and injected.
It's from the sun tho. Could have been prevented. She's still herself, same cute face. Just looks like constant sun exposure. I hate the botox look too. It's immobile and ugly. She shouldn't be THAT wrinkly tho. I am 52 and still have no crowsfeet,no neck wrinkling(yet)just laugh lines from laughing so much! And I was born with those things! I used to lay out all the time too, till I would look black but midwest sun is probably not as bad as the year round California sun. And I stopped getting a real tan over 20 yrs ago. It's just not worth it. Fake bake lotion for me!!!
rox
Maybe that explains my girl crush?
Chelsea Handler had a round table discussion about this last night. I was half asleep, but remember it being funny.
Someone on TV said that when women "discover" they are lesbians late in life, it's because there are no interested men left. LOL
My personal feelings are that this type of person affects, adversely, people who are born gay. It's not a choice and it certainly isn't as simple as making a "choice" because you want publicity.
She looks like she needs to shed.
Coyote:
But she siad she was never able to have a successful male/female relationship. And she believes it's because she was gauy & hadn't figured it out yet. I know it's weird, but I can see a woman doing this more than a man. & about there being no men left, that may be true. But when other ppl around a person say the knew long beofre the person themselves knew, it says alot. Haven't we all went to school with someone that came out after high school and you would be like "duh"??? I think there is a definite vibe you would be giving off. I know of married women that got together & left their husbands & are still together and they both had nice homes & children. They were neighbors and got to be friends and it went from there. I don't get it, but I find it interesting that she is past 60 and has only known for 7 years too. Is that possible, really? I am conflicted about it. Can that happen to anyone? Could that happen to me??? LOL...nah...nothing like an old dyke tho.
Anonymous, I know one person whose shrink told her she was gay--she thought she was just depressed. It struck me as odd, but who am I to say it can't happen--she's living proof. She had been married, had two grown kids, and was divorced.
I have some gay friends and it's a non-issue, but I've never known them as other than gay, and as far as I know they always knew they were gay. When I think of them, I think of them as friends, not as gay or straight. I think whatever floats one's boat as long as it doesn't affect anyone else is fine.
I guess my point with Meredith was/is, "Why make a big public deal out of it?" It may very well be an unusual phenomenon, but I think it makes some bigoted people think that children born gay really had a choice.
I just don't understand how it all works--call me naive. Therefore, I probably shouldn't have voiced a view. I just happened to catch the remark about no men left on TV this a.m.
Yeah, that's what I don't get, it's almost 2010, who gives a crap is she munches carpet?
Yeah, that's what I don't get, it's almost 2010, who gives a crap if she munches carpet? Muff dive away, be happy. No need to announce it, I'll figure it your at your wedding.
I knew she was a lesbian in 1978 when I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion and she made kissy faces at me from across the room. Ew!! So this "later in life" revelation is a bunch of bullshit.
Most gays know from an early age, but I've heard this kind of thing before.
An ex-bf told me this story: He used to have the hots for his friend's wife, P. P split up, had affairs with hot men for the next several years, and told my ex that her roommate - her sexy, straight, female roommate - had discovered she was les. P was incredulous, but finally accepted it when the roommate stayed in her new, gay, relationship.
Cut to P. Eventually she winds up with a woman and declares herself gay too. They were both in their late 30/early 40s - way too soon to throw in the towel on straight relationships, so lack of men was probably not the reason. My ex told me the whole story as an update, since we only saw each other every few years.
So now I wonder if this could happen to me. But when I feel the vomit rising in my throat at the thought, I feel safe for the time being at least.
Just..yuck.
She told us why she revealed it - to forestall the gossip. Makes sense to me.
I used to have a crush on her. I like that fact that she is natural as well Pat.
An ex girlfriend I ran into just got a 40 year old birthday "makeover". Micro facial lift, eye lid procedure and botox!. I told her that for a little bit of work she looks like a whole lot of shit. She was so pretty, and now she looks as stretched out as a boot camp bunk.
Jarhead
Don't we all have a cousin or a friend from kindergarten that we knew was gay, even then? My kids had friends in school that they knew but it was never spoken and now after school and they are all grown, of course they say they are gay. I don't think you can choose to be gay, it won't work for you. I never did get the guy in Culture Club, the drummer, he & Boy George had a steamy affir for years, prior to that, the guy had been with girls only. George was always gay. When they broke up, this guy went back to women and now has a family, a wife, the works. I think for someone like that maybe it was drugs. They weren't being themselves at all, so anything goes. Drugs can change natural behavior. And Ann Heche, WTH? I just think some ppl do it as a means of escape, for attention, to further their careers and because of drugs. Once they stop doing w/e it was, they go back to reality. Because for them it was never real.
Jarhead....
You make me laugh!! I swear I think I love you!!
You single? ;)
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