Not that we haven't heard it all at least half a dozen times before, but TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi are said to be hoping to save their struggling marriage from divorce by having a baby. According to the latest gossip news updates, even that plan seems to be backfiring, however, as Ellen's said to be pushing hard for adoption, while the Scandal actress would rather find a surrogate they can have a relationship with throughout the pregnancy.
Once again the supermarket tabloids are claiming that despite their very public statements to the contrary, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are trying to hold their supposedly fragile marriage together by having a baby.
One source claiming to be close to the Hollywood power couple explains in the July 6, issue of The National Enquirer that somehow even their last ditch effort to start a family was serving to further tear them apart:
"They needed time away to discuss how to save their relationship -- and decided it could be a baby.
"Ellen wants to adopt a child, while Portia has her heart set on surrogacy."
Although the meand by which to start their new family may still be up for debate, the informant insists that Ellen and Portia are ultimately determined to become mothers one way or the other:
"They just want to start a family and see where it takes them!"
Of course, chances are that all the reports about their plans to have a baby are no more true than last week's rumors that Portia was despondent over Ellen's relationship with Tatam O'Neal.
While Star magazine claimed last week that de Rossi was particular cross after finding out that Ellen's frequent lunch date was suddenly supposed to be interested in dating women as well as men, Gossip Cop's source contends that Ellen isn't even that good of friends with Tatum -- let alone her secret lover:
"When did these secret lunches take place? I would really love to know...[it's] not true."
It's starting to get where you can hardly believe anything you read in the supermarket tabloids unless you've seen it first on TMZ, of course.
