Posted on 03/23/2008 10:44:24 AM PDT by Sawdring
Jamie Lee Curtis has agreed to pose topless to mark her 50th birthday.
The actress said she would bare all to convince older women that they can still be beautiful if they take care of their bodies.
Her topless pose will appear on May's cover of the magazine of the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. equivalent of Saga.
Nowadays, you’re right...
I had a neighbor who used to lay by her pool every day in the summer, but she looked a tad bit better than that... Geesh... I thought she looked bad until I saw this picture! That’s just scary...
Claim: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was born with both male and female sex organs.
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Origins: What to make of the child of two successful and famous actors who grows up to achieve an equal measure of fame in the same field? What if this gal has a boyish-sounding name and adopts children rather than bears her own?
A rumor, apparently. And not a very nice one.
According to an oft-repeated whisper, Jamie Lee Curtis is an intersexual (the preferred medical term for persons of ambiguous gender, replacing 'hermaphrodite').
So? Is she, or isn't she?
We may never know. No one but
This rumor is often lent credibility by people who have heard it repeated as fact by their university professors (especially those with specialties relating to intersexuality). Neither the hearer nor the teller ever seems to be able to provide a credible explanation of how he knows this piece of information to be true, the chain of transmission always tracing back to the notoriously unreliable "Someone else told me about it." As happens over and over, even the most trusted of sources can sometimes take a widespread rumor at face value, then parrot it as fact.
Okay, so we simply don't know. Why, then, is this rumor so widespread?
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Two facts lend an aura of credence to the rumor that Jamie Lee was born with both male and female bodyparts. The first is her two-way name: According to the rumor, a boyish appellation was bestowed upon her by parents who hadn't yet decided whether to have a boy or a girl "made" of their baby and wanted to be prepared to go either way, but that wasn't the case of it. Janet Leigh explained how she came to choose the name: At that time, we didn't know ahead of time if it would be a girl or a boy, so when I was pregnant with Kelly, my best friend Jackie Gershwin said, "Why don't you call the baby Kelly, so if it's a girl, it works, and if it's a boy, it works?" And she thought the same thing with Jamie. The babies were named before they were born because Jackie said, "This way, we won't have to worry about it!" If the names were truly chosen before the children arrived, that puts paid to the notion that 'Jamie Lee' was so christened in response to a medical condition that would only have been discovered after her delivery. (Jamie Lee Curtis was born long before the development of medical technology that could identify dual-gendered fetuses.)
The second fact that supports the rumor is
Degrees of intersexuality vary in intensity from presence of an additional
According to
(Many technical names have been assigned to describe sexual ambiguity, including testicular feminization, transgendered, and androgen insensitivity syndrome. Rather than get bogged down here in descriptions of them, we direct readers to follow the link in the "Additional Information" section of this page for further discussion of the subject.)
Intersexuality is a reality; some children are ambiguously gendered at birth. However, one particular point needs to be made, and made quite vehemently: The existence of such medical conditions is not reason in itself to suppose that Jamie Lee Curtis has any of them. Using the one to bolster belief in the second is akin to claiming the existence of the Atlantic Ocean somehow proves a particular ship sank in it.
It is a telling commentary on the skewed importance we give any matter relating to sexuality that this rumor exists at all. Numerous children come into the world less than perfectly formed, yet no stigma is attached to those who require surgery to repair a malfunctioning heart, a disorder of the digestive system, or almost any other condition unrelated to gender. Yet when the question of sexuality is raised, it's all whispers behind hands and meaningful looks.
As only someone who has seen True Lies can say, if that's not all woman, then maybe we need to rethink what is. And while we're at it, let's see if we can't rethink what's a fit topic for gossip and what isn't.
When something arrives with a prepaid postage return envelope and it’s soliciting soemthing, I just pack all their material up and send it back with a few extra pages of useless bulkmail ... they have to pay extra return postage. Bwahahahaha
Hear here! Well said, sir/madame. BTW, those are rare women in todays world since the feminist movement swept up so many young women.
Hmmm, I never thought of that! Thanks for the tip.
ahhhhh,
yer sweet.....
The burgundy hairs are what do it ;)
The next one who posts Helen Thomas is dead! (And your dog too!)
If you live in any suburban neighborhood long enough, you will meet your own version of Vic Frohmyer (Dan Akroyd’s character) and his mini-me son. I loved the late Tom Poston as the Priest (encountering JLC) at the tanning place...and the tanning ‘girl’ with the permanent ‘goggle lines.’ It was just tooooo funny.
No, but I am good looking, dear. LOL
She is anything but pretty despite being the offspring of Janet and Tony. They were truly a beautiful pair, (apologies to Tony for the bueautiful term). Jamie has never made it very far in show biz. Her lack of hair doesn’t do her any favors. Now showing her boobs will not renew her career, even as the screaming ability is fading.
And I agree with your comment.
Lose the gray Jamie.
I love how this thread is at the top of the “Most Viewed Threads” sidebar. Best FR upgrade ever.
There's nothing wrong with gray hair on a woman (says the au natural meowmeow). Now I'll grant it - it isn't easy to pull off as I've discovered. I've had to upgrade the rest of me (as in wearing nicer, better fitting clothes and putting on some makeup) otherwise I just look OLD and FRUMPY.
I get more compliments on my hair now that it is gray (actually it is silver) than I ever did when I was young.
it is true, my daughter said they just did a segment on her in her human sexuality class in college.
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