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Beyonce 32? It's Just a Bad Dream, Girl

The Internet has been ringing with the alarming news that Beyonce Knowles is 32 years old, and not, as she's claimed all along, 25. TMZ did a little digging -- and we've got the definitive answer.

Celeb gossip site MediaTakeOut.com claimed earlier this week to have a document from the Texas Department of Health proving that the pop princess was born September 4, 1974, making her 32. But an authoritative source in Texas tells TMZ that the authenticity of that document could not be confirmed, that the document wasn't an official birth record, and that 1974 is definitely not Beyonce's b-day.

We also put in a call to the High School of the Visual and Performing Arts in Houston, which Beyonce attended, and they told us that she was a student from 1997-2000. If she was born in 1974, that would mean she attended high school from age 23 on. Beyonce might be gullible (at least enough to be ambushed by PETA), but high school at 23? We don't think so.

Beyonce's rep said she had "no idea" how the faux-age rumor began or why it was disseminated. Mediatakeout.com says that they have "thoroughly inspected" the posted document and that it looks "very real."



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181. For BLACKS, A GING is a GOOD DREAM.

For WHITES, It's a BAD DREAM. Stop trying to put us down in your league. FACE it, our MELANIN was the only thing you guys couldn't STEAL. So you're MAD.

Realize it Black People. Lets Pull the Chick Up, Not put her down as they want us to do.

Posted at 1:27AM on Jan 1st 2007 by VERONICAshley

182. Leonardo DiCaprio appears to be on CRACK ROCK. Talk about looking 90 at 32.
Leo Got It !!! Look to the lower right of this page.

Posted at 2:15AM on Jan 1st 2007 by VERONICAshley

183. PETA at Beyonce's dinner.

That Mother F***in White Bitch would have been carried out in a God D*mn body bag. Leave B' the f*** alone. Most every human being ingest some form of an animal. Milk, chicken, sea food etc. Beyonce should have busted you in your f***in God D*mn bitch ass face. I would have had a good time with your ass interrupting my meal F*** Ass. Be careful who you approach like that.
You lil F***er.

Posted at 2:15AM on Jan 1st 2007 by VERONICAshley

184. So what she's 32. She's Black and Beautiful, and will still look 32 when she's 62.
Black people just do it like that, and we can't help it. It's a little thing called Melanin

Posted at 2:54AM on Jan 1st 2007 by VERONICAshley

185. How can she be older than she says she is without being called out on it? They have interviewed teachers from her past on national television. Wouldn't those kids who went to grade school with her, the principals and remaining teachers all have contacted the rag mags and exposed her by now? Come on people, let us not be naive. Even if you think her marketing machine is making her out to be younger than what she is, black folks just would not keep quiet about something like this. So she may have been home schooled after 8th grade. What about all the kids, teachers and principals that remember her from 1st grade? You mean no one could tell the difference between someone that was 6 years old vs. 13 years old in first grade? There are some honest people out there and yes some haters too that would not have allowed her to get away with saying she is 25 when she is really 32. IMO this is a bogus story meant to stir up controversy. Success by blacks is hard enough to achieve. Let her and her family create controversy on their own, if it happens, when it happens. Let's not help them by making up it up. Let it go.

Posted at 9:19AM on Jan 1st 2007 by Patience

186. Boy, i tell ya...people have nothing to do but hate on people with real talent. But I will say this ....people will believe anything because people are stupid..and TMZ you have just proven this to the world.......Why dont you stop reporting a bunch of sh*t and go and suck on a lemon????

Posted at 12:15AM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Bella Blue

187. Alot of artists are alot older than what they say they are. Not that it matters but I believe Beyonce is actually 32. The report on mediatakeout.com is claimed to be false as if someone just typed up a false records of birth in 1974, but you can go on intelius and peopler finder and net detective and type in Beyonce Knowles, two different reports will come up. One has a birthday of Sept. 1, 1974 and the second one says Sept. 4, 1981, with possible employment coming up under 1974 birth year. Which one do u believe?

Now if people can pay 5 grand to get a phony BA, I believe you can pay for just about anything, including a fake birth certificate and ID.

Posted at 4:23AM on Jan 2nd 2007 by Renee

188. I would just like to inform all of you that melanin exists in EVERY RACE, plant, and protista kingdom. Melanin is comprised of polyacetylene, polyaniline, and polypryrrol, or their mixed copolymers and is the primary determinant of human skin color, it has absolutely nothing to do with how your skin ages. Albinism, a deficiency caused by lack of melanin, is present in ALL RACES. I myself have seen black albinos, as well as white. Now I think you black people need to work more on your edumacation and stop uttering such ignorance. You are clearly embarrassing your race with your blathering idiocy!

Posted at 3:16AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by nadia

189. whats all da f***ing fussing for? 25, 35, 45, whats d diff. u go find sth to do bout ur life and stop hating. Y dont u just find out where she schooled and check out her records pics, docs and interview peeps.
U should come to nigeria and see how easy it is to pruduce a document. documents like dat can be easily gotten and circulated by a hater. u americans should wake up, i beg u

Posted at 7:29PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by jay

190. Redally What does it matter? someone is trying to make a name on her account and if she is lying she is the one who will have to face her fans. Don't we have more important things to worry about( soldiers getting killed for nothing, homeless in usa, teen sex, etc.

Posted at 6:06PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Marcus

191. I am a black man and think that all you people who write insulting remarks about other races are just ignorant, don't you know we all came from the same place. God created us all vut because of our sinful nature we all have our own issues. grow up. Hate only breeds Hate.

Posted at 6:11PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Marcus

192. I guess when your 17 everyone older either looks 32 or almost dead. LOL. I am 46 years old and Beyonce looks every bit 24 going on 25 years old. She started out singing very young. Good for her she can retire at 32 years old. :) And I have known many young girls who blossom very early. Beyonce was never a stick thin child. I saw those pictures. But she didn't look older than she was either. Look at the eyes. You can always tell age by the hands and eyes. No matter how well you take care of yourself, excersize, eat right, even the best plastic surgery won't take away the age from your hands and eyes. Beyonce has very young eyes.
And don't all you know very well you cannot believe everything written even if it looks like a legal document. Even money the hardest thing to copy gets forged.
But no big deal, for Beyonce, because 32 is still very young. :)

Posted at 1:44PM on Jan 4th 2007 by Sharon Sotomayor

193. FIRST OF ALL SHE SAID SHE WENT TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL DIDNT ATTEND PUBLIC SCHOOL, I'M HERE IN HOUSTON AND I DO RECALL HER PERFORMING AT ASTROWORLD WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT IN THEIR LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL JACKETS WHICH HER AND KELLY ATTENDED(EVEN SOLANGE) NOW IF U WANT MY OPINION THEY BEEN LYIN SINCE SHE HIT THE SCENE. AS FOR AS THAT DESTINY CHILD BREAK UP MATTEW KNOWLES WANTED LETOYA N LATAVIA TO LET HIM BE THEIR LEGAL GUARDIAN MEANING IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO THEM HE WOULD GET ALL THEIR MONEY N GIVE THE FAMILY WHAT HE WANTED THEM TO HAVE.THEY WASNT FOR THAT KELLY DIDNT CARE SHE BEEN LIVING WITH THEM SINCE SHE WAS 9 SO.JUST LIKE MATTHEW CAUSED ALL THAT DRAMA WHEN DREAM GIRLZ CAME OUT. HE APPROCHED JENNIFER HUDSON ASKIN HER TO SIGN A CONTRACT STATING THAT SHE HAD BEEN SINGING FOR HIM ON MUSIC WORLD RECORD LABEL WHICH IS HIS LABEL. JENNIFER REFUSED AND SHE DID BETTER THAN BEYONCE IN DREAM GIRLZ N WAY.

Posted at 2:57PM on Jan 4th 2007 by Model Ladie

194. WELL, JAY Z AND BEYONCE LIE ABOUT THEIR AGE HE 40 YEARS OLD.SHE CAN'T SING SHE SOUNDS LIKE A LAMB TRYIN TO RUN AWAY FROM HIS MASTER!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:05PM on Jan 4th 2007 by Model Ladie

195. Nadia, in 191. you said "I would just like to inform all of you that melanin exists in EVERY RACE, plant, and protista kingdom. ......it has absolutely nothing to do with how your skin ages. ...... Now I think you black people need to work more on your edumacation and stop uttering such ignorance. You are clearly embarrassing your race with your blathering idiocy!"

I may not fit into the category you are insulting, but the door swings both ways. Perhaps you should reconsider your comment about melanin having nothing to do with aging. Try reading any number of dermatolgical journals, and you will read somethihg similar to the following, "Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is responsible for 90% of the visible signs of aging on the skin of whites. Blacks' skin, however, ages much slower. Most dark-skinned blacks are protected from harmful UVR rays because compared to whites, blacks possess more melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color." Your comments are demeaning to a race of people who clearly know differently. Even if the science was not there to back them up, their eyes tell them you are incorrect.

Posted at 9:37PM on Jan 4th 2007 by Patience

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