Well, she kind of looks like a guy with a wig.
Posted on 04/30/2002 6:01:00 PM PDT by vikingchick
Tue Apr 30, 5:37 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Weeks after going public about her homosexuality to support child adoption by gay couples, soon-to-retire talk show host Rosie O'Donnell and her longtime partner are reportedly expecting a baby together.
Us magazine reported in its upcoming edition that O'Donnell's companion of four years, Kelli Carpenter, is several weeks pregnant, though there was no word on who the father might be.
Syndicated TV show "Access Hollywood" also was reporting in a broadcast set for Tuesday that Carpenter is pregnant.
The latest issue of Us, which hits newsstands on Friday, said O'Donnell, 40, and Carpenter, 34, recently visited a New York gynecologist's office, where O'Donnell was quoted as telling other women in the waiting room, "My girlfriend is here -- she's pregnant."
Moments later, according to unnamed sources cited in the account, Carpenter emerged from the doctor's office with "a small printout of a sonogram, and Rosie was all excited about it."
O'Donnell's spokeswoman declined to comment on the reports.
The former stand-up comic and actress plans to end her six-year stint as host of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show (news - Y! TV)" next month in order to spend more time with her three adopted children -- two boys and a girl -- Parker, 6, Chelsea, 4, and Blake, 2.
O'Donnell publicly "came out of the closet" last month during a nationally televised interview with Dianne Sawyer on the ABC News program "Primetime Thursday."
O'Donnell said then she was moved to openly discuss her sexuality and motherhood after reading about the case of a gay couple suing the state of Florida to overturn its ban on gay adoption.
"I don't think America knows that a gay parent looks like," O'Donnell told Sawyer. "I am the gay parent."
O'Donnell's recent memoir, "Find Me," has become a bestseller.
Well, she kind of looks like a guy with a wig.
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