{"id":124492,"date":"2025-09-07T02:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124492\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:02:07","slug":"kate-mckinnon-reveals-she-was-diagnosed-with-geographic-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124492\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon reveals she was diagnosed with geographic tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate McKinnon<\/a> is making light of her medical diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n

The Saturday Night Live alum has opened up about discovering that she has geographic tongue.\n<\/p>\n

“I took a photo of my tongue and sent it to an actor friend of mine,” McKinnon said in a new interview with PEOPLE<\/a>. “We both have the same medical condition. It’s called geographic tongue. Your tongue sheds in patches and looks like an atlas, hence the name ‘geographic tongue.'”\n<\/p>\n

Kate McKinnon at ‘SNL50: The Anniversary Special’ on Feb. 16, 2025.<\/p>\n

John Nacion\/Variety via Getty<\/p>\n

McKinnon admitted that she doesn’t find the condition aesthetically pleasing. “It’s gross,” the comedian said.\n<\/p>\n

Still, she still takes pride in her tongue’s appearance in her correspondence with her unnamed friend. “We brag about how geographic we are on any given day,” she said. “Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this in a magazine.”\n<\/p>\n

Geographic tongue is a harmless condition wherein the tongue has smooth red patches that often have slightly raised borders \u2014 free of the papillae, or tiny pink-white dots, that ordinarily cover the tongue, according to the Mayo Clinic.\n<\/p>\n

The condition’s most severe symptoms are sensitivities to spices, salt, and sweets, which means there’s no reason to worry about a geographic tongue diagnosis. Many cases of geographic tongue do not require treatment, but sometimes symptoms can be a sign of a fungal infection, which can typically be treated with antifungal medication.\n<\/p>\n

Another celebrity to share their geographic tongue diagnosis: Sadie Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame, who posted a photo<\/a> of her tongue on Instagram in 2020. “Yes, it’s a thing, and yes, that’s why my tongue looks weird,” she said of the inflammatory condition.\n<\/p>\n

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Kate McKinnon at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n

Jamie McCarthy\/Peacock via Getty<\/p>\n

McKinnon plays a supporting role in the new movie The Roses, a dark comedy that also stars Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>, Olivia Colman<\/a>, Andy Samberg<\/a>, Ncuti Gatwa<\/a>, Belinda Bromilow, Sunita Mani, Jamie Demetriou, Zo\u00eb Chao, and Allison Janney<\/a>. The film is based on the 1981 novel The War of the Roses, which Danny DeVito adapted into a movie starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in 1989. Screenwriter Tony McNamara<\/a> does not consider his new film a remake, though.\n<\/p>\n

“There was the idea of remaking this, but no one really wanted to remake the movie because it’s such a great movie,” McNamara recently told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. “I had read the book as well, and so I was like, ‘I don’t want to remake it, but I would love to write a movie about a marriage rather than a divorce \u2014 and a more contemporary version of what is a marriage now.”\n<\/p>\n

The screenwriter pondered, “What if you’re watching two people who desperately want to stay married and can’t work out how to do it? … That would be a different kind of movie. That was the impetus to reimagine that story.”\n<\/p>\n

The Roses is playing now in theaters.<\/p>\n