Kate McKinnon can often turn real-life incidents into slices of dark comedy movies, and that is exactly what she did when she announced her benign medical diagnosis. At the center of a lot of things right now, the SNL alum called her recently-discovered condition “gross.” Here’s what happened to Kate McKinnon.
Kate McKinnon discloses she has been diagnosed with geographic tongue
Kate McKinnon is on quite a ride at the moment. She is releasing Secrets of the Purple Pearl, the second in her series, The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, this month, and she is also starring in the movie Roses. She appeared in this week’s One Last Thing and discussed that she has a medical condition.
Speaking of what was wrong with her (via PEOPLE), McKinnon said, “I took a photo of my tongue and sent it to an actor friend of mine.” She continued, “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.'”
“It’s gross,” she added to this, “We brag about how geographic we are on any given day. Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this in a magazine.”
Cleveland Clinic describes the condition – “Geographic tongue is a noncancerous condition that causes smooth reddish patches on your tongue. It’s called geographic tongue because the patch patterns resemble the way that land masses and oceans are shown on maps.”
This condition is completely harmless. In her feature on One Last Thing, McKinnon also discussed various other things.
Secrets of the Purple Pearl, the second book in The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science series, will be available from September 30, 2025.
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty for ComingSoon.
