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  • Meredith Baxter Ties The Knot With Nancy Locke

    Family Ties star Meredith Baxter married her girlfriend of seven years, Nancy Locke, during an intimate ceremony on Sunday, December 8 in Los Angeles. The couple exchanged personal, handwritten vows in front of their close friends and family.

    Suspicions of their upcoming marriage started after Baxter obtained a marriage license in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, November 12. Marriage is not something new to Baxter considering her marriage to Locke makes her fourth. She was previously married to Robert Lewis Bush, David Birney and Michael Blodgett before she publicly came out as a lesbian in 2009.

    During an interview in 2009, Baxter said that she never expected to fall in love with Locke, nor did she expect to have the support that she received from her family and friends. “I got involved with someone I never expected to get involved with, and it was that kind of awakening,” she said. “I never fought it because it was like, ‘Oh, I understand why I had the issues I had early in life.’ I had a great deal of difficulty connecting with men in relationships.”

    Baxter also realized that there are some things that you just can’t hide from your children. When she told her five children that she was, in fact, a lesbian, they told her that they already knew. “I said, ‘I think I’m gay,’ and my oldest boy said, ‘I knew,’” Baxter said. “The support from my family and anyone close to me has been so immediate and unqualified. I’ve really been blessed.”

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  • Meredith Baxter Marries Longtime Girlfriend

    Meredith Baxter is probably best known for her role as Elise on “Family Ties”; as the headband-wearing matriarch of a suburban family in the Reagan-dominated ’80s, she was the very picture of the perfect mom. But she and husband Steven were about more than a picture-perfect existence in the ‘burbs, being all for human rights and sit-ins for peace and justice, and that’s something Baxter might appreciate as a gay woman.

    The 66-year old actress wed her girlfriend of seven years, Nancy Locke, on Sunday in a private ceremony. It was her fourth marriage and she has five grown children, which might have complicated things when she decided to come out as a lesbian in 2009. However, she says her kids were extremely supportive.

    “I got involved with someone I never expected to get involved with, and it was that kind of awakening,” Baxter said in 2009. “I never fought it because it was like, ‘Oh, I understand why I had the issues I had early in life.’ I had a great deal of difficulty connecting with men in relationships. I said, ‘I think I’m gay,’ and my oldest boy said, ‘I knew,’. The support from my family and anyone close to me has been so immediate and unqualified. I’ve really been blessed.”

    Baxter and Locke reportedly took dance lessons in order to wow their friends and family at the ceremony, but have not said whether they plan to honeymoon.

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