Gossip: Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez’s self-regard may have attained mythic proportions.
Alex Rodriguez’s self-regard may have attained mythic proportions. One of Rodriguez’s former girlfriends tells Us Weekly that the Yankee slugger, 34, has “not one, but two” paintings over his bed that depict him as a centaur, the mythical creature that’s half-man and half-horse. “He’s so vain,” said the source. “The paintings are ridiculous.”
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