# Does Kathy Bates have a daughter?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 20, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383 "2011-01-20T21:47:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383/1 "2011-01-20T21:47:28Z")

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Saw a woman who is the spitting image of her but much much younger judging Iron Chef last week. Didn’t catch the name and wiki doesn’t list any offspring, but that could just be an omission. Does she have a daughter in the entertainment industry?

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**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383/2 "2011-01-21T00:33:32Z")

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Is [this](http://www.bizbash.com/newyork/content/editorial/4945_ask_an_expert_creating_a_successful_launch.php) the person you’re thinking of? Her name is Karine Bakhoum, no relation to Kathy Bates.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383/3 "2011-01-21T00:50:25Z")

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That certainly could be her. Couldn’t tell from the pics though, as Karine looked a little chunkier than the person I saw. Maybe she slimmed down

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**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383/4 "2011-01-21T04:56:08Z")

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> [@YogSosoth](#):
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> That certainly could be her. Couldn’t tell from the pics though, as Karine looked a little chunkier than the person I saw. Maybe she slimmed down

Karine’s weight cycled in the last 18 months or so. She started quite plump, became almost alarmingly thin but quite happy seeming (there was discussion on various fan sites about possible weight loss surgery) but recently she’s put some of the weight back on.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383/5 "2011-01-21T05:42:10Z")

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Bates’ [biography on IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000870/bio) does not make any mention of any children. As the bio does mention her parents, two sisters, and ex-husband, if she did have children, I would imagine they, too, would have been mentioned.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-kathy-bates-have-a-daughter/568383/6 "2011-01-23T01:44:08Z")

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It is Karine! Caught her name on a rerun of Iron Chef. Wow, no relation at all to Bates huh?