Gabrielle Giffords’ husband may be a narcissist
Space travel has become so commonplace, that the media barely mentions a scheduled space shuttle takeoff in the news any more.
Last week, NASA announced that Mark Kelly — a veteran of 3 space flights — would be piloting the space shuttle Endeavour on its final flight into outer space.
Immediately after NASA’s announcement, the questions began: why was Kelly leaving his wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is in rehab recovering from a head shot, to fly into outer space for two weeks?
Kelly, who was in Houston on Jan. 8 when Giffords was shot, rushed to Tucson, Arizona to be by her side. It wasn’t long before he was in front of the cameras giving daily updates on Giffords’ condition.
Most husbands would have taken a leave of absence from their jobs to care for their wives. But a narcissist puts his needs above all others. It is more important for Mr. Kelly to pilot the final space mission for the shuttle program, than it is to remain by his wife’s side and allow another pilot to get the glory.
As the whispers grew louder, Kelly defended his selfish action, saying that his wife would be “very comfortable” with his decision to fly off into space for two weeks.
He avoided reporters questions about her condition or how he knows she would be comfortable with his choice.
“I know her very well and she would be very comfortable with the decision that I made,” Kelly said tersely.
“The longest amount of time we’ve spent together is probably a couple of weeks at a stretch,” Kelly told the NY Times when the couple wed in 2007. It should be noted that Kelly was still married to his first wife when he met the congresswoman in 2003. He eventually divorced his wife to marry Giffords.
Kelly predicted that Giffords, 40, will be at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 19 for shuttle Endeavour’s liftoff.
“I have every intention that she’ll be there for the launch. I’ve talked to her doctors about that,” he said confidently.
Between now and then, Kelly, 46, will be kept busy working long hours in preparation for the space flight. There will be limited time to spend with his wife, who can breathe on her own although she still has a breathing tube down her throat.
Doctors plan to plug Giffords’ breathing tube so she can speak. But probably not before Kelly joins the other astronauts in quarantine a week before the launch.
Celebs Out & About: Alex Rodriguez, Cameron Diaz, NeNe Leakes, Isaiah Mustafa
Nene Leakes of the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta‘ and Isaiah Mustafa (of Old Spice deodorant fame) were guests on the Wendy Williams Show today in NYC. NeNe was there to promote the ‘Housewives’ reunion show, which airs this coming Sunday (Feb. 13). NeNe is wearing the taller version of those Burberry Prorsum shearling boots that Janet Jackson loves. Photos by: Roger Wong/INF PHOTO
NY Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and industry carousel actress Cameron Diaz couldn’t take their eyes off each other as they strolled arm-in-arm in NYC today. Diaz, 38, has dated Justin Timberlake, Matt Dillon and Jared Leto in the past. She started dating A-Rod, 35, in July of last year.
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Celebs Out & About: Nick Cannon, Max Page
Mariah’s hubby Nick Cannon was one of the unlucky travelers to be detained and strip searched prior to boarding his plane at LAX airport in Los Angeles yesterday. Cannon, who must have looked suspicious to homeland security personnel, was forced to strip down to his underwear as he went through a vigorous security screening at American Airlines. He showed off his boxer shorts which had lucky horseshoes and four leaf clovers on them. Cannon was allowed to board his flight once it was determined that he had no bombs or bomb making material hidden in his underwear. Nick, 30, and wife Mariah, 41, are currently expecting twins.
DARTH VADER UNMASKED
Max Page is the six-year-old who played the “Darth Vader Kid” in the Volkswagen Super Bowl ad that everyone is still talking about. He was spotted out and about in Manhattan, NYC with his mom today. I still don’t see the big deal with that commercial. Am I the only one who missed the entire point of the commercial?
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Halle Berry Covers EBONY Magazine: ‘Our Daughter IS Black’
Halle Berry covers the March 2011 issue of EBONY magazine. Inside, she discusses the ongoing public custody battle with her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry over their daughter Nahla, 2.
Regarding Aubry’s orders not to call his daughter black, Halle says, “I feel she’s Black. I’m Black and I’m her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory.”
The archaic one-drop rule refers to the racist law passed in the 1920s to describe someone who isn’t 100% Caucasian.
Halle is wrong, of course. Her argument is based on an archaic law that is not even valid and no longer in use in today’s society. I’m embarrassed for her.
Anything that is mixed is no longer original. Anything that is put together to make a whole is still a sum of its parts. I’m not agreeing with Aubry, because he is misguided too. What is wrong with just accepting the fact that their child is biracial: a combination of their races?
Halle recently sat down with EBONY‘s Editor-in-Chief Amy DuBois Barnett in Chicago to touch on her recent Golden Globe nomination, motherhood, marriage and what motivates her to continually challenge herself in every aspect of her life.
“Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now. Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. That’s the most important thing I’m going to do in this life at this point,” she said.
Prince Queens Out On Kim Kardashian at MSG
The entire blogosphere is in an uproar over video of pop icon Prince kicking socialite Kim Kardashian off the stage during his ‘Welcome 2 America’ concert at Madison Square Garden last night.
According to witnesses, Prince, 52, brought Kim Kardashian, 30, on stage to dance for him. But after noting that she had no rhythm, he showed her the exit, saying “get off the stage.”
Why did she even go up onstage if she knew she couldn’t bust a move? To be in the spotlight, of course.
A sullen Kardashian was later spotted entering the Darby nightclub in Manhattan where she told friends the incident was the most humiliating of her career.
What career?
Celeb Style: Wikileaks Chic
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court, in south-east London, early this morning dressed to impress in a hand tailored, custom made suit and scarf. Assange was facing a second day in a British court Tuesday fighting an attempt to extradite him to Sweden over allegations of rape and molestation.
Even though the full weight of the Obama administration has been placed on the court to extradite him to the U.S., the 39-year-old Australian’s lawyer Geoffrey Robertson argued that Assange could face the death penalty if extradited on from Sweden to the United States on separate charges relating to the whistleblowing website.
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Police lab tests reveal yogurt had an extra added ingredient: semen
A New Mexico woman thought she was eating healthy when she accepted a yogurt sample from a male clerk at a local grocery store. After swallowing the sample, the woman thought she tasted an extra added ingredient that wasn’t on the menu.
So she took her suspicions — and what was left of the yogurt sample — to the New Mexico police department where tests were run on the yogurt. The lab tests came back positive for ejaculated protein, aka semen, and saliva.
Police immediately took out search warrants to obtain blood and DNA samples from the grocery store clerk, Anthony Garcia, 31. Police said the body fluids were necessary to make sure the suspect doesn’t have any sexually transmitted diseases.
They busted Garcia on the spot after it was determined that he had two outstanding warrants for a 2009 arrest for criminal sexual activity with a minor.
The 28-year-old victim, whose name was redacted from the police report, was shopping with her daughter at the Sunflower grocery store in Albuquerque, when she was approached by Garcia, who worked in the store’s dairy department.
He offered her a sample of yogurt, which she accepted. But she was immediately grossed out and disgusted when she realized the sample “tasted like semen.”
In a handwritten statement, the woman wrote, “I spit it out on the floor many times cuz I was upset.”
She wrote that when she talked to the grocery store manager Catherine Flores, “she told me was a Greek yoghurt. People love it has lot of protein on it.”
The woman said she paid for her groceries and returned home where she discussed the incident with her boyfriend. She told him how Garcia “just come with one sample just for me,” and that “he was so pushy to tell me how it taste.”
Her boyfriend was sufficiently alarmed enough to accompany her back to the store, where they summoned the police. When police arrived, an “extremely nervous” Garcia told them he discarded the yogurt samples in a trash compactor after the woman complained about the taste.
This story gives new meaning to the phrase “You are what you eat.”
Source: TSG
