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She still has a strange look.
Above are some photos of Portia de Rossi, Ellen Degeneres' "wife", and how she looked before she was dating Ellen, and during two episodes of her life with Ellen.
Her " Ellen" photos show an unresolved angst in her demeanor. But what is even more surprising is how strange she looks in her pre-Ellen photos. In the 2003 photo, she looks as though she is beckoning the devil to just come and get her. Cocky, and with a nice smile, but there is something about her eyes which is off-putting.
In the one when she was married to a man (which some biographies of hers say she did to get a green card), she still has an androgynous, uncomfortable, unfeminine look about her, although she is still a very "feminine" lesbian, compared to Ellen, at least.
Most of these "celebrity" lesbians, have strange, rebellious childhoods. I don't know if that translates to "ordinary" lesbians, although I don't see why not. For example Portia changed her very plain (to her) Anglo-Australian name Amanda Lee Rogers to the more exotic Portia de Rossi when she was fifteen. Later on, she also developed an eating disorder. She now claims that was all due to her lack of identity, and not knowing that she was really a lesbian. I don't buy that. She just sounds stubborn and self-centered. Eating disorders are about control and manipulation, anyway. The only outlet these stubborn girls have to "rebel", by turning their family life upside down, and getting attention.
That is why I think all this lesbianism business (and homosexuality in general) is to do with a narcissistic personality bent.