Rosie O'Donnell has gone public with her new romance, telling listeners of her satellite radio show her new girlfriend, Tracy Kachtick-anders, is a "lovely, lovely, lovely person".
The actress-turned-radio and TV personality officially split from her wife Kelli Carpenter last year, and now she's dating mother-of-six Kachtik-Anders.
The new couple was spotted holding hands during a day out last month and now O'Donnell admits the fuss about her love life has been strange and a little disconcerting.
During her Rosie Radio show on Monday, O'Donnell said, "Did anybody hear I have a new girlfriend...? I felt like Madonna for a moment. Truthfully, I’m not really that kind of famous where people follow me.
"It’s only happened to me when I’ve been with Madonna to tell you the truth... or when I went... to (music executive) Tommy Mottola’s wedding... because he married Talia, this huge star in Latin America. Going into that wedding was like nothing that I have ever experienced before in my life.
"Aside from Madonna, everyone else I know who’s famous doesn’t really think they’re as famous as they are, including me. I had no idea that it (new romance) would be on CNN... It’s odd for me... and quite odd for Tracy."
O'Donnell revealed she has been dating Kachtick-Anders since last autumn.
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The comedian and former TV talk show host – who in mid-November revealed that her longtime partner Kelli Carpenter moved out of their home two years ago – is now dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas-based artist, O'Donnell's rep has confirmed.
The pair were spotted walking hand-in-hand in Miami Beach on Tuesday.
Last month, when asked if she was enjoying the single life, O'Donnell, 47, said, "I'm not. But on we grow, so to speak."
And in October, in an interview with http://www.examiner.com/, Kachtick-Anders said, "Maybe for a future plan, I'd like a date with an inspiring woman!"
Like O'Donnell, Kachtick-Anders is active in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parenting and adoption issues. She launched Open Arms Campaign, a non-profit organization to recruit and foster adoptive families that targets the LGBT community. "I have become an activist and work to educate everyone, not only about the plight of foster children," she wrote on TheRainbowBabies.com, "but also the inequality that faces LGBT people in their quest to create families." Kachtick-Anders has six children, five of whom are adopted, according to the Examiner.com.
O'Donnell, meanwhile, is gearing up for the airing on HBO in late January of A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration, a documentary that challenges the traditional ideas of family.
Rosie O'Donnell has gone public with her new romance, telling listeners of her satellite radio show her new girlfriend, Tracy Kachtick-anders, is a "lovely, lovely, lovely person".
