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Whitney and Cissy were not biological mother and daughter?

Any truth to this rumor? Supposedly, actress Teresa Graves from the '70s series GET CHRISTIE LOVE! was Whitney's bio mom. John Houston had an affair with her, and after Teresa died tragically, Cissy took Whitney and raised her as her own. I never did think Whitney resembled Cissy in the slightest. Teresa would have been around 15 when she gave birth to Whitney, which could explain a backdoor adoption as John Houston was in his 40s at the time!

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by Anonymousreply 53May 13, 2025 9:45 PM

Wow, this is shocking. Whitney sure does look like Teresa Graves!

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by Anonymousreply 1December 22, 2023 5:36 PM

They both wore Eva Gabor wigs—that doesn’t mean they were related.

by Anonymousreply 2December 22, 2023 5:38 PM

Who's John Houston?

by Anonymousreply 3December 22, 2023 5:41 PM

Whitney sounds so much like a young Cissy. This rumor is unfounded.

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by Anonymousreply 4December 22, 2023 5:43 PM

He was the father of Whitney’s twin sister Angelica.

by Anonymousreply 5December 22, 2023 5:44 PM

😵‍💫

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by Anonymousreply 6December 22, 2023 5:45 PM

Whitney was actually my child. I would have been a fantastic mother, but I was scheduled to make that Costa Rica film. Not that horrible Lloyd Webber movie!

by Anonymousreply 7December 22, 2023 6:03 PM

I love you, r2!

by Anonymousreply 8December 22, 2023 6:24 PM

“Whitney Houston No Remake of Get Christie Love”

Is this supposed to be English?

by Anonymousreply 9December 22, 2023 6:27 PM

I loved "Get Christie Love"!!! ❤️

by Anonymousreply 10December 22, 2023 6:53 PM

Thank you, r6.

by Anonymousreply 11December 22, 2023 7:26 PM

[quote]Whitney sounds so much like a young Cissy.

Hi Cissy!

by Anonymousreply 12December 22, 2023 7:27 PM

r4 She does sort of sound like whitney.

by Anonymousreply 13October 22, 2024 1:17 AM

She certainly didn’t get her looks from Cissy. Her father was a handsome man but Cissy had a hard face, not so pretty.

by Anonymousreply 14October 22, 2024 1:21 AM

[quote]John Houston had an affair with her, and after Teresa died tragically, Cissy took Whitney and raised her as her own.

Teresa Graves died in October, 2002 at the age of 54.

So Cissy took Whitney in and 'raised her as her own' when Whitney was 39 years old ? Did Whitney have some kind of developmental disorder we don't know about and had to be raised by a surrogate mother at 39 ?

by Anonymousreply 15October 22, 2024 1:38 AM

Wow the striking is compelling. The only problem I have with conspiracies like this people who knew sissy at the time would have had to put together that she was never pregnant for 9 months. How could that be possible?

by Anonymousreply 16October 22, 2024 2:21 AM

Holy cow that’s one rumor i never heard a whisper of. I could believe it though.

by Anonymousreply 17October 22, 2024 2:27 AM

Teresa Graves died in 2002.

by Anonymousreply 18October 22, 2024 2:46 AM

She sure resembled Whitney r18.

by Anonymousreply 19October 22, 2024 3:05 AM

R18 that was already discussed in R15.

by Anonymousreply 20October 22, 2024 11:49 AM

Rumor fake. Cissy is gone and nobody as expose this

by Anonymousreply 21May 11, 2025 5:04 AM

Whitney looks more like her father than mother. Teresa Graves is not her mother.

I can’t see a mean ass Cissy Houston raising another woman’s daughter—especially one that was created due to an affair—and pouring so much vocal lessons into her the way she did with Whitney. There are a lot of celebrities that look alike. It doesn’t mean they’re related.

by Anonymousreply 22May 11, 2025 5:23 AM

Blacks ees no good for family stability.

Be best.

by Anonymousreply 23May 11, 2025 5:24 AM

I haven't read any prior post, but a "mother" product who wishes to have me executed with her daughter's decorations, when she wasn't sufficiently angry or protective, because there would be consequences...

I guess women up for execution among Trump's collective hatred among the "young are fighting back, right!?

by Anonymousreply 24May 11, 2025 5:47 AM

Whitney was a lot more beautiful than her so who knows

by Anonymousreply 25May 11, 2025 5:52 AM

Biologically LOW CLASS was the only thing needed to be "known" because she and her mother dragged their angry vulva, as Florida pavement to get 'special'.

by Anonymousreply 26May 11, 2025 5:52 AM

All you have to do is listen to Cissy’s early recordings to know that Whitney is truly her daughter.

by Anonymousreply 27May 11, 2025 6:21 AM

Teresa’s mouth and teeth were identical to Whitney’s. Similar eyes too. I could believe this.

by Anonymousreply 28May 11, 2025 6:40 AM

Did Teresa die in a tragic muff diving incident and that was why Cissy was so vehement Whitney never take the plunge?

by Anonymousreply 29May 11, 2025 7:22 AM

Once you see Teresa on Ed Sullivan in 1969, it is very hard to deny she’s Whitney’s Mom. Listen to that voice. Some of the mannerisms even.

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by Anonymousreply 30May 11, 2025 7:23 AM

It’s so sad this woman was as talented as she was and as beautiful as she was and her legacy was destroyed by her drug use. I love sassy bitchy Whitney.

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by Anonymousreply 31May 11, 2025 8:39 AM

Here’s Teresa singing and dancing, and she’s doing it live with no dancers behind her. It’s so refreshing! She looks great, too:

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by Anonymousreply 32May 11, 2025 8:46 AM

You're under arrest, Sugah.

by Anonymousreply 33May 11, 2025 11:10 AM

There is no way she is NOT Whitney’s mother. The tone of their voices are even the same, beyond them looking alike.

by Anonymousreply 34May 11, 2025 1:14 PM

Get Christy Love was my favorite black show from the 70s ! I loved how she tooled around the streets of LA in her Mercury Bobcat and wore hot pants when apprehending criminals!

by Anonymousreply 35May 11, 2025 1:44 PM

A fun conspiracy theory, but completely implausible. Why would a successful TV star give away her baby as though she was a starving teen mom on the street?

by Anonymousreply 36May 11, 2025 1:49 PM

Shishee hyooshnn.

by Anonymousreply 37May 11, 2025 1:57 PM

R36 You know DL LIVES for the theatah and drama. It has no foundation in reality, but if it’s soap opera logic then it must be true.

by Anonymousreply 38May 11, 2025 2:11 PM

Let me tell it like it is. Cissy was so big she always looked pregnit so we never would have known if she was pregnit with Nippy.

by Anonymousreply 39May 11, 2025 3:28 PM

Hissy never had the brightness that Whitney did

by Anonymousreply 40May 11, 2025 3:54 PM

[quote] Once you see Teresa on Ed Sullivan in 1969, it is very hard to deny she’s Whitney’s Mom. Listen to that voice. Some of the mannerisms even.

I have many of those mannerisms, too! You know, maybe Teresa Graves is MY biological mother.

by Anonymousreply 41May 11, 2025 3:55 PM

Hissy’s only biological child was Debbie Downer

by Anonymousreply 42May 11, 2025 3:58 PM

"FREEZE SUCKA!"

by Anonymousreply 43May 11, 2025 5:37 PM

R36 because she was 15 and not famous when it happened, 1961. She wasn’t a success but a victim a statutory rape.

by Anonymousreply 44May 12, 2025 9:11 PM

That still doesn't explain people who worked with Cissy Houston (a popular background singer for many of the top stars in the '60s and '70s) talking about doing sessions with her while she was pregnant with Whitney.

Cissy is Whitney's mother. Just because Whitney doesn't look exactly like her (she has Cissy's smile, by the way) doesn't mean Cissy isn't her mother. Some of you need a refresher in biology.

by Anonymousreply 45May 12, 2025 9:21 PM

You all keep believing this nonsense.

Only I know the truth.

by Anonymousreply 46May 12, 2025 9:23 PM

They do not share DNA.

by Anonymousreply 47May 12, 2025 9:29 PM

Whitney resembles her maternal great grandmother Susan Bell Drunkard.

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by Anonymousreply 48May 12, 2025 9:41 PM

Cissy is a troll and Whitney is not. Whitney looks nothing like her mom OR her brother. And it’s odd that Teresa dropped out of Hollywood the exact year Whitney signed her record deal, got famous and Whitney had her major breakdown the year Theresa died in a house fire in 2002. And Diddy’s pregnancy was sketchy anyway. John was still married to his first wife when Cissy supposedly gave birth to his kids.

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by Anonymousreply 49May 13, 2025 4:33 AM

if Cissy is the mother, SHOW ME THE FUCKIN’ RECEIPTS

by Anonymousreply 50May 13, 2025 11:50 AM
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by Anonymousreply 51May 13, 2025 12:27 PM

R45 It’s a gossip site, sweetheart. Unclench. You’d rather more political threads?

by Anonymousreply 52May 13, 2025 12:40 PM

Yeah her family is fucking ugly

by Anonymousreply 53May 13, 2025 9:45 PM
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