And the Most Fascinating Person of 2008 is ...
The most searched-for celebrity online in '08 was Britney Spears.
But who will be unveiled as Barbara Walters' coveted, completely arbitrary Most Fascinating Person of the Year? Here's two hints:
- Britney Spears did not win this one, unfortch.
- It's one of the individuals pictured below ...
Who's the most fascinating of these celebrities? Follow the jump to find out ...
Thomas Beatie: Pregnant, Exploitive Again
Thomas Beatie, dubbed the "Pregnant Man," is knocked up again.
In an recent interview with Barbara Walters, the transgender individual says he's in his first trimester.
Beatie tells Walters that he didn't go back on the male hormone testosterone after his daughter, Susan, was born. The reason? He wanted to have another baby.
"I feel good," said Beatie, who is due on June 12. "I had my checkups with my hormone level, as far as the HCG. And everything is right on track."
We're happy for Thomas Beatie and her wife. But we refuse to refer to someone with female sex organs as a "man." Aren't those body parts exactly what distinguishes one gender from the other?
Thomas Beatie, Baby Pose for Exploitive Picture
Thomas Beatie - falsely referred to as the "pregnant man" when he's actually just the first legally transgender male to give birth - welcomed a daughter into the world three weeks ago.
Already, he told People, little Susan Juliette is "easygoing and mellow and intelligent."
On the night of June 29, Beatie squeezed out (through his vagina because, as noted above, he isn't a man!) a nine-pound, five-ounce girl.
"She's so precious, I just can't stop staring at her," Thomas said in his first interview since he and wife Nancy returned with their baby from Bend, Oregon's St. Charles Medical Center. "Just holding her is the best feeling in the world."
Compare celebrity babies now: Who is cuter, Susan Juliette or Levi Alves McConaughey?
Thomas Beatie Gives Birth
Pregnant man Thomas Beatie gave birth to a baby girl on Friday.
Beatie - who received national attention when he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in April - was born a female, but had his breasts surgically removed and legally changed his gender to male.
Due to the appearance of such a masculine-looking individual with a baby bump, Beatie has been the talk of tabloids for months. In reality, it's not particularly astounding:
He kept his female sex organs, making this pregnancy far from ground-breaking.
"It doesn't make me want to go and shave my legs or something," he told Winfrey. "I'm a man, I just happen to be a pregnant man."
On the contrary, Thomas Beatie, what differentiates a man and a woman is their sex organs. You're a woman who takes testosterone.
