But who has Mrs. Keaton been eatin’?


“I was on a lesbian cruise . . . having a great time,” recalled late-in-life lesbian Meredith Baxter to talk show host Frank DeCaro in an interview yesterday on OutQ, SIRIUS satellite radio’s LGBT channel.

“I realized that being on a lesbian cruise, whether it was for work or the pleasure part of it, which was great (I had a great time), [coming out] was going to be something I was going to have to contend with. So I thought let it be my voice instead of someone else's.”

Switch “boob” for “voice” and you’ve got the plot of Meredith’s 1994 landmark TV movie My Breast, which featured the first ever naked knocker on network TV.

The wholesome-looking blonde babe is probably best known to TV audiences for her starring roles on the hit TV shows Bridget Loves Bernie, Family, and Family Ties, where she played the MILF-tastic Elyse Keaton, a grown-up hippie trying to hold on to her ideals while raising a family in the '80s.

In the '90s, after Family Ties was over, Meredith made a name for herself in TV movies like A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story; Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter; and Down Will Come Baby.

She even played a lesbian mom on a 1993 CBS Schoolbreak Special called “Other Mothers.”

But it was her unprecedented performance as a workaholic journalist diagnosed with breast cancer in My Breast that catapulted her into Mr. Skin’s Hall of Fame.

On May 15, 1994, the sight of Meredith’s massive melon while getting a breast exam made TV history and took a place as #29 in Mr. Skin’s Top 100 Nude Scenes of All Time.

Now that luscious knocker is open for business to Meredith’s lesbian lover Nancy Locke, and we couldn’t be happier for them. Maybe these two will soon be making even more TV history.

When asked about the possibility of starring in a future TV show called Bridget Loves Bernadette, Meredith replied, “I was thinking it was going to be Bridget Loves Bernice. Or both of them, just to make it more interesting.”

As always, Meredith, we like the way you think.