# Fanboys Mourn - Natalie Portman engaged and pregnant
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 27, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548 "2010-12-27T21:05:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/1 "2010-12-27T21:05:19Z")
to her boyfried ballet dancer
[http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40819601/ns/today-entertainment/](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40819601/ns/today-entertainment/)
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/2 "2010-12-27T21:18:33Z")
Shall we put Skald The Rhymer on suicide watch?
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/3 "2010-12-27T21:21:56Z")
Okay, I’m going to be cynical and childish for a moment . . .
The fact that her fiance’s name is dangerously close to millipede and he’s a ballet dancer is making me giggle. Like, how long does it take him to tie all those tiny toe shoes?
I do not have much confidence in marriages where the couple met on a movie set. I certainly wish them the best, or at least the best one can wish a total stranger, but I don’t see it lasting.
While I respect the art and discipline of ballet, I don’t enjoy watching men perform it and regardless of the phenomenal shape he must be in, I don’t find it masculine.
Not that anyone asked.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/4 "2010-12-27T21:24:51Z")
Watch it be twins.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/5 "2010-12-27T21:27:47Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> The fact that her fiance’s name is dangerously close to millipede and he’s a ballet dancer is making me giggle. Like, how long does it take him to tie all those tiny toe shoes?
I was going to chide you for this immature, insensitive and childish comment.
Then I opened the link and read his name. I can’t stop giggling now.
Is there room in this handbasket for both of us? 😃
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/6 "2010-12-27T21:31:19Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> Shall we put Skald The Rhymer on suicide watch?
I can haz flying monkeys?
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/7 "2010-12-27T22:02:31Z")
Natalie did claim to not be a role model. She even claimed so in rap-form, which makes it even more true.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/8 "2010-12-27T22:13:39Z")
Fanboys fear not.
It’s just her double.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/9 "2010-12-27T23:26:59Z")
> [@Enderw24](#):
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> Fanboys fear not.
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> It’s just her double.
Keira Knightley? Oh no, it’s worse than we thought!
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/10 "2010-12-27T23:30:53Z")
[Here’s an article about him](http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/men-of-the-moment/201006/benjamin-millepied-nyc-ballet-choreographer-natalie-portman-boyfriend) in Details magazine. He sounds like an interesting, talented, creative and ambitious person (and oh lord, [gorgeous](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCZLsbgq1w) when he’s clean-shaven), it’s no wonder Natalie was attracted to him.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/11 "2010-12-27T23:38:56Z")
He’s a little pencil-necked for my taste, but he’s definitely a cutie. I had actually started to think she was gay, because I never heard about her dating anyone. I would have gone gay just for her for an hour or two. 😛
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/12 "2010-12-28T00:07:21Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> Watch it be twins.
[Heh. Everything’s on youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXrN1qMADJQ).
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### Author:  [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/13 "2010-12-28T00:18:02Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> I would have gone gay just for her for an hour or two. 😛
Me too, but I’m a guy, so it doesnt make any sense.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/14 "2010-12-28T01:23:32Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#):
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> Me too, but I’m a guy, so it doesnt make any sense.
Have you spoken to your Minister or Physician?
🙂
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/15 "2010-12-28T01:27:56Z")
Man, Hayden Christensen’s going to be crushed. By big falling rocks, I hope.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/16 "2010-12-28T01:40:27Z")
Cue the Luke Skywalker-ish “NOOOOOOOOOooooooo!”
> [@WordMan](#):
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> to her boyfried ballet dancer
Best typo of the week.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/17 "2010-12-28T01:42:47Z")
> [@WhyNot](#):
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> I was going to chide you for this immature, insensitive and childish comment.
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> Then I opened the link and read his name. I can’t stop giggling now.
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> Is there room in this handbasket for both of us? 😃
I got a mental image of a millipede-with all 1000 legs stuck in 1000 pies. 😃
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/18 "2010-12-28T01:43:18Z")
Why would I mourn this? It’s like Shakespeare said: the beautiful are nearly morally compelled to breed, that their beauty not fade from the earth. And I wasn’t converting for her.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/19 "2010-12-28T03:01:38Z")
He was one of the dancers in Black Swan
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fanboys-mourn-natalie-portman-engaged-and-pregnant/565548/20 "2010-12-28T03:55:50Z")
Straight Mail Ballet Dancer.
Clearly, it’s a hoax.
(I keed, I keed)
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