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Meredith Baxter Says She’s a Lesbian

Meredith Baxter Says She's A Lesbian

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Meredith Baxter said she was a lesbian as media reports and published photos of her and a woman embracing began to surface in public on Wednesday.

Meredith Baxter, 62, told NBC's "The Today Show" that she discovered she was gay seven years ago, several years after her divorce from her third husband. Meredith Baxter said her five children, who range from ages 25 to 42, supported her when she told them.

"I am a lesbian, and it was a later-in-life recognition," Meredith Baxter said. "I got involved with someone I never expected to get involved with, and it was that kind of awakening. I had a great deal of difficulty connecting with men in relationships." (More…)