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Amazing pictures of pregnant man as he tells Oprah 'people may try to kill my baby'
Last updated at 01:22am on 05.04.08The man who stunned the world when he announced he was pregnant gave an intimate insight into his personal life in a revealing television interview with Oprah.
Thomas Beatie stripped off for the cameras and bared his baby bump and also revealed pictures from his beauty queen days as a young woman.
However, the 34-year-old transsexual also told chat show host Oprah Winfrey that he feared for his own safety and admitted doctors had warned him his baby could be killed because of the revulsion at her birth.
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Oprah pats Thomas Beatie's pregnant stomach as he give details about his personal life
The couple revealed all to Oprah and admitted that they feared how people would react to their child
Now six-months pregnant, Beatie walked onto the show with a grey cardigan stretched over the growing bump.
The TV chat show queen was filmed patting Beatie's bulging stomach during the hour long interview with his wife Nancy.
The 34-year-old transsexual was filmed for the show undergoing an ultrasound scan and preparing for the birth of their daughter.
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The couple have been buy plenty of baby clothes in preparation for their daughter's arrival in three months
Blurred images of the baby girl could clearly be seen as a smiling Beatie looked on.
Beatie said many doctors had refused to treat him and one warned him: "People would try to kill my baby because it is an abomination."
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The couple had wanted to have a child but wife Nancy could not conceive
Beatie smiles as he has an ultrasound with wife Nancy by his side
His appearance on US TV was part of a media blitz to knock down suggestions the pregnancy was a hoax.
As well as the Oprah show, Beatie also gave a detailed interview to People magazine.
The former beauty pageant queen, who conceived through artificial insemination, confessed many people saw him as a "freak".
He said some of his own family members had referred to the baby as "monster".
He accepts that not everyone will understand why he and his 45-year-old wife decided to have a child, which is due in July.
The couple, from Bend, Oregon, said they had already thought about the task of telling their child how she came into the world.
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Pregnant man Thomas Beatie sat on the chat show sofa with his wife Nancy for an interview with Oprah
"When she's old enough, we'll sit her down and tell her everything," Beatie said.
"We will tell her how her parents love each other and love her very much.
"Our daughter is beating these incredible odds to get here - physical obstacles, social obstacles, everything.
"And in my dreams I dream the world will see her the way we do,as this amazing gift to us. As a miracle."
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Beatie struggles to fit into his old clothes as his stomach grows
Beatie,who was born Tracy LaGondino in Hawaii, caused a worldwide sensation last week when he revealed the pregnancy in the gay magazine The Advocate.
But after neighbours in Oregon poured scorn on the pregnancy it was thought to be an elaborate hoax.
Beatie legally became a man after undergoing a sex change operation - but kept her female reproductive organs.
He told People magazine he decided to get pregnant after wife of five years Nancy had a hysterectomy.
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As Tracy, Beatie took part in beauty pageants
The former beauty queen has been called a 'monster' by members of his own family after the sex change
"If Nancy could get pregnant, I wouldn't be doing this," he said.
"But who hires a surrogate if they are perfectly capable of carrying their own child?
"Why would I trust someone else when I know I'll do a better job of taking care of my body than anyone?
"And I'll be the father and Nancy will be the mother.
"Having this baby doesn't make me any less of a man."
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Beatie was born a girl and grew up in Hawaii where people thought she was a 'freak'
Beatie said he was afraid of how people would react when he gives birth.
"I want to make it easier for the next couple like us, but I'm afraid.
"Afraid of how people will react for our safety. I don't want to lose the life we have." Nancy, a mother of two, added: "We know this is a hard thing for some people to understand.
"But to us we're just a husband and wife who are having a baby."
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I am trying to understand the big deal - Thomas is genetically a woman. If you insert semen in 90% of females while they are ovulating - wow, they get pregnant. This is just a publicity stunt. Now if she had impregnated herself - wow, what a story.
- Bill, Philadelphia
I don't know why everyone is making a big deal about this? They are having a baby. We should all be happy for them. If I were in there situation I would do the same thing. Who are we to judge them? I think that it is beautiful and I don't care what anyone says. Congratulations to them they are still going to have a beautiful baby girl whether we agree with it or not.
- Donna, Hemet,CA
WELL IF YOU DID YOUR HOMEWORK YOU WOULD KNOW THAT SHE, WELL HAS A PENIS. SHE IS ACTULLY ABLE TO HAVE INTERCOURSE WITH HER WIFE. I DONT THINK ANYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO JUDGE THEM! IM SURE YOU ARE ALL JUST PERFECT PEOPLE! NEVER DONE ANYTHING THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED WRONG OR DIFFERENT. I WOULD LOVE TO MEET ALL YOU PERFECT PEOPLE! NO IM NOT GAY AND YES I AM A WOMEN! ITS HER BODY AND SHE HAS EVERYRIGHT TO DO WITH AND SHARE IT WITH WHOM EVER SHE PLEASES! GET A LIFE LOSERS!
- Holly, PENSACOLA USA
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