So this afternoon, the whole elaborate farce that Backseat Coach and I have been perpetrating for four years came crashing down. Do you know how hard it was to try to get people to believe that there was a straight guy who was legitimately interested in women’s football for other than lascivious reasons? I mean really. It was just exhausting. Which is why it was almost a relief when someone accidentally outed us on Facebook this afternoon while trying to provide a link to Backseat Coach’s Twitter feed:
Yes, it’s true. My boyfriend and the father of my children is, in fact, Heidi Klum. Now you know.
OK, fine, that’s not really Heidi Klum. But I don’t know that many blonde women and I just watched the season premiere of Project Runway last night so that’s what you get.
And fine, that’s not really my boyfriend. And that’s totally not at all his Twitter avatar icon thing, so I really don’t know why it showed up there. But I DO know that it made me snort lemonade up into my nose when I saw it, which is the classic journalism litmus test for whether or not something deserves to be publicized.
