The last time we covered Kate Mulgrew, whom you might know as Red from Orange is the New Black or Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, she was narrating a documentary claiming that the sun revolved around the earth. It’s unclear if she holds these beliefs personally, although judging from this interview she seems to have some bizarre ideas. Kate, 61, has a memoir called Born with Teeth, and it’s been out for a year but this is the first time I’ve heard these details reported. She told Lorraine on the UK’s ITV that she was born with “a set of perfect teeth” and that her parents had to have a cage built for her because she had “no sense of pain” until she was four.
Orange Is The New Black star Kate Mulgrew claimed she was born with a set of perfect teeth, during an interview with Lorraine on Thursday.
The actress, 61, who stars as Galina ‘Red’ Reznikov in the series, also claimed she had ‘no sense of pain’ so her parents kept her in a cage for her own safety.
She said: ‘I was born with teeth. Yes, I was born with a set of perfect teeth. They’re actually sort of pearlescent, and they’re very dangerous because the baby can swallow them.’
She told Lorraine Kelly: ‘They built me a little cage because I had no sense of pain until I was four years old.
‘So I was born with teeth and I had no sense of pain. Imagine what Shakespeare would have done with that.’
There’s a video on The Daily Mail too, so she did say these things. I read through the excerpt of Kate’s memoir available on Amazon and she wasn’t put in an actual cage, it was more of a special crib with bars to protect her. Plus she didn’t have a full set of perfect teeth according to her book, just two on top and two on the bottom. The details about her not feeling pain as a child are vague. Here’s the part about her cage/crib and her teeth being pulled out
My father was not surprised when Dr. Sharp visited and announced that I would need a special crib, one with bars on all sides as well as over the top because would you believe it, said the good doctor, but this kid has no sense of pain. Mother was delighted by the novelty of this condition and stood stoically by as my baby teeth were pulled, quickly and without incident, so as to prevent my eating them.
[From Born with Teeth, print edition]
That was all that she wrote about that apparently, because the next excerpt is about how she cared for an infant sister who later passed. So I get the impression that the “didn’t feel pain” and cage part was quite exaggerated. She didn’t write anything about being in that cage at all. Also, how is she saying she had a “set of perfect teeth” when in her book she wrote of her teeth “Two pearls on top and two, nonpareil, on the bottom.” That’s four teeth not a perfect set. Plus congenital insensitivity to pain is not something people grow out of from what I can find. It sounds like it’s just something a doctor told her parents because the real condition is quite serious and I would assume she would have written more about it.
Kate is promoting the new season of OITNB, which is out June 17 and is getting excellent reviews. They really need to send out Laverne Cox to do promotion for this show. Taylor Schilling has been doing interviews too but she’s not making headlines like this.
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