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Meredith Baxter, a star of the 1980 sitcom "Family Ties" said Wednesday she was a lesbian, the media and published pictures of women began to embrace public.Baxter surface, 62, said: "The NBC Today Show "discovered he was gay seven years ago, several years after her divorce from her third husband. He said five children aged 25 to 42, when he supported the them.es am a lesbian and it was a side-recognition in life, "he said." I was dealing with someone who does not expect to engage, and this kind of tone. I had great difficulty connecting with men in relationships. "

Her comments came amid recent online photographs of her walking with her girlfriend of four years, building contractor Nancy Locke, and reports that she attended a Caribbean cruise with some 1,200 lesbians, which she confirmed.Baxter said she decided to speak to the media to set the facts straight. She also said she was once so paranoid the media would expose her secret that she asked Locke, who was openly gay, to park her truck farther away.

"She said, 'No'. I thought, 'All right.' I had to reach a level of comfort. It wasn't fair to push her back into some kind of secrecy, and the nice thing is that we live very 'out' lives in Los Angeles," Baxter said.Baxter played Elyse Keaton, mother of Michael J. Fox's conservative-minded teenager Michael P. Keaton, from 1982 to 1989. She has had guest and recurring television roles since then and also runs a skincare company.