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Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mom Thought She Was Raising a Gay Boy

Now that he’s left California governor’s mansion cigar smoking outpost, Arnold Schwarzenegger is free to be even more candid with the press. Which means he’s Austrian newspaper Krone that not only did playing politician cost him $200 million in earnings (though “it was more than worth it”), but he’s regaling reporters with stories that because of all the posters of bodybuilders he hung up in his room, his mother thought he was a homo: “She really believed I was gay. It’s nothing bad now, but back then she could not imagine such a thing.”

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