{"id":9281,"date":"2025-09-08T07:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9281\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:08:22","slug":"what-is-geographic-tongue-snl-alum-kate-mckinnon-reveals-gross-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9281\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Geographic Tongue? \u2018SNL\u2019 Alum Kate McKinnon Reveals \u2018Gross\u2019 Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate McKinnon<\/a> is opening up about a relatively unheard of, but thankfully benign, condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took a photo of my tongue and sent it to an actor friend of mine,\u201d the Saturday Night Live alum, 41, told People<\/a> in an interview published on Saturday, September 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both have the same medical condition,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s called geographic tongue. Your tongue sheds in patches and looks like an atlas, hence the name \u2018geographic tongue.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, geographic tongue is a \u201cnoncancerous condition that causes smooth, reddish patches on your tongue.\u201d A person can have the condition without experiencing any symptoms, according to the health organization, and it neither causes health issues or requires treatment.<\/p>\n

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Still, and despite her health condition being far from harmful, McKinnon admits she isn\u2019t thrilled by her diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gross,\u201d the actress and comedian told the publication. \u201cWe brag about how geographic we are on any given day. Maybe I shouldn\u2019t be saying this in a magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bragging about her relatively unheard of medical condition isn\u2019t the only way the Roses star is deciding to pass her time. After leaving SNL behind in 2022, and going on to star in several successful movies including 2023\u2019s blockbuster Barbie, McKinnon is busy practicing her fermenting skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can lacto-ferment any vegetable by putting them in a big clean jar with water to cover and then you weigh all that and subtract the weight of the jar, and then multiply that by .035 and then add that amount of salt (by weight), shake it up and let it sit for seven days,\u201d she told the outlet in the same Saturday interview. \u201cI\u2019ve been fermenting. Aziza made me do it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SNL<\/p>\n

Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

McKinnon has also been flexing her DIY-skills, putting up what she described as \u201cfaux-beams\u201d on her \u201cbedroom ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI sourced the wood and cut it and oiled it and treated it for bugs and installed it and fixed it and it took me three years,\u201d she explained. \u201cBut the skills I gained will last a lifetime. I love skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for her health, having a benign \u2014 and somewhat odd \u2013 medical condition puts McKinnon in an arguably prestigious category among her Hollywood peers. During a 2008 appearance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, actor Ashton Kutcher<\/a> revealed he has webbed toes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have two toes that are connected, webbed. This made headline news? \u2026 They are just a little connected. It is good to tell everyone,\u201d he explained at the time. \u201cI heard this one little kid who had webbed toes and he thought he was abnormal but then he saw that I have them too and it confirmed that he is abnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI thought everyone\u2019s toes were like that. You can actually cut it when you are born. People\u2019s toes are joined then grow apart. Mine just didn\u2019t [grow apart] all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denzel Washington<\/a>, for his part, has a crooked pinky finger, while Jennifer Garner<\/a> has a condition called brachymetatarsia<\/a>, a foot deformity that causes her pinky toe to overlap with her ring toe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon is opening up about a relatively unheard of, but thankfully benign, condition. \u201cI took a photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[11702,156,9370,9368,11701,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cleveland-clinic","tag-entertainment","tag-geographic-tongue","tag-kate-mckinnon","tag-medical-condition","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}