So arguably the juciest of my blind items, the one about the actress with the chromosonal abnormality, I cannot reveal because of legal issues rah rah rah. However, I can offer an interesting little update.
I was talking with a friend who also knows my source for that item (said source works at a hospital) and she reminded me of another thing the source had told her: There is ANOTHER famous actress who has this karyotype abnormality. I don't think the name would surprise you too much.
Also, as I said in the BI but some people got confused, it IS possible for people with karyotypes other than the usual female XX or male XY to fall pregnant. For instance, since genetic testing was instituted for women in the Olympic Games, a number of women have been disqualified as "not women," after winning. However, none of the disqualified women is a man; all have atypical karyotypes, and one gave birth to a healthy child after having been disqualified... Usually however, pregnancy in someone who is intersex in some way is highly unlikely, highly problematic, and unlikely to be carried full term.
My guess is Nicole Kidman. All fits.
Posted by: | August 29, 2007 at 07:52 PM
Nicole is my guess as well. For the other actress that we wouldn't be suprised about, I'm thinking Jamie Lee Curtis.
Posted by: Farleece | August 29, 2007 at 08:48 PM
Nicole Kidman AND Jho...?!
More little clues, please.
Posted by: BITCH | August 29, 2007 at 09:19 PM
Jamie Lee Curtis would have been my guess for #3. I don't think that she has any biological children, only two that are adopted. Oh, yes- and she looks like a man.
Posted by: Sonia | August 29, 2007 at 09:35 PM
I still think it's Sandra Bullock -- she gets very testy when anyone asks her about making babies.
Posted by: Claire | August 30, 2007 at 05:01 AM
That '...OTHER famous actress who has this karyotype abnormality' is getting to me; at first I assumed it was Jamie Lee Curtis, but I wonder if it couldn't be someone like Keira Knightly.
Posted by: Sonia | August 30, 2007 at 07:02 AM
it's pretty common knowledge that both Jamie Lee Curtis and her sister are hermaphrodites.
Their father Tony Curtis felt a great deal of pain about this as he felt that it was his chromosomal abnormality which caused this genetic miscue.
I guess he thought that his homosexuality caused it.
Weird, I know, but it was the 50's
Posted by: kellygrrrl | August 30, 2007 at 06:28 PM
it is Nicole Kidman, her recent revelation regarding having a miscarriage plus she is very close to masculinity on the androygenous scale. So she got pregnant but could not carry to term.
Posted by: LinaB | September 10, 2007 at 01:33 PM