Kate McKinnon reveals she was diagnosed with geographic tongue Wesley StenzelSeptember 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM 0 Karwai Tang/WireImage Kate McKinnon attends 'The Roses' U.K. premiere on Aug. 28, 2025 Kate McKinnon is making light of her medical diagnosis.
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Wesley StenzelSeptember 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Kate McKinnon attends 'The Roses' U.K. premiere on Aug. 28, 2025
Kate McKinnon is making light of her medical diagnosis.
The Saturday Night Live alum has opened up about discovering that she has geographic tongue.
"I took a photo of my tongue and sent it to an actor friend of mine," McKinnon said in a new interview with PEOPLE. "We both have the same medical condition. It's called geographic tongue. Your tongue sheds in patches and looks like an atlas, hence the name 'geographic tongue.'"
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Kate McKinnon at 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' on Feb. 16, 2025
McKinnon admitted that she doesn't find the condition aesthetically pleasing. "It's gross," the comedian said.
Still, she still takes pride in her tongue's appearance in her correspondence with her unnamed friend. "We brag about how geographic we are on any given day," she said. "Maybe I shouldn't be saying this in a magazine."
Geographic tongue is a harmless condition wherein the tongue has smooth red patches that often have slightly raised borders — free of the papillae, or tiny pink-white dots, that ordinarily cover the tongue, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The condition's most severe symptoms are sensitivities to spices, salt, and sweets, which means there's no reason to worry about a geographic tongue diagnosis. Many cases of geographic tongue do not require treatment, but sometimes symptoms can be a sign of a fungal infection, which can typically be treated with antifungal medication.
Another celebrity to share their geographic tongue diagnosis: Sadie Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame, who posted a photo of her tongue on Instagram in 2020. "Yes, it's a thing, and yes, that's why my tongue looks weird," she said of the inflammatory condition.
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Kate McKinnon at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 14, 2025
McKinnon plays a supporting role in the new movie The Roses, a dark comedy that also stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Ncuti Gatwa, Belinda Bromilow, Sunita Mani, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, and Allison Janney. The film is based on the 1981 novel The War of the Roses, which Danny DeVito adapted into a movie starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in 1989. Screenwriter Tony McNamara does not consider his new film a remake, though.
"There was the idea of remaking this, but no one really wanted to remake the movie because it's such a great movie," McNamara recently told Entertainment Weekly. "I had read the book as well, and so I was like, 'I don't want to remake it, but I would love to write a movie about a marriage rather than a divorce — and a more contemporary version of what is a marriage now."
The screenwriter pondered, "What if you're watching two people who desperately want to stay married and can't work out how to do it? ... That would be a different kind of movie. That was the impetus to reimagine that story."
The Roses is playing now in theaters.
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