Beyonce's Been Lying About Her Age?

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The last few weeks we had been hearing rumors that Beyonce Knowles has been lying about her age. The rumors stated that the pop singer is not 26 years old but she’s actually 32…6 years older than the age she protested! Well now Mediatakeout.com has acquired the birth certificate from someone who claims to work for the Texas Department of Health. The paper faxed over appears to be Beyonce's official birth records. The document (a portion of which is above) shows that a Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born to a Mathew Knowles and Celestine Ann Beyonce on September 4th, 1974.

Beyonce's official biography claims that she was born on September 4th, 1981. It also claims that her mother’s maiden name is "Beyince", and not "Beyonce" as the document shows. At this point there is no official statement from Beyonce's camp.

UPDATE: TMZ has learned that the authenticity of that document could not be confirmed. The document wasn't "an official birth record, and that 1974 is definitely not Beyoncé's b-day".

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Reader Comments

1:31PM 12/15/08 obamawon

i have been waiting for someone to bring this up. don't get me wrong i am not hating on her, she is cool with me. but here's the thing, last year when she was promoting her "25th " birthday bash, a show was doing a thing on her. they showed video from star search and said beyonce was 12 and that was 1988, in 1998 she would be 22 and in 2008 she would be 32 now the last time i checked my math i was on the money with it. so she is 32 years old, she should be proud her old @ss can still do it like that. some one please tell me where to find old star search videos, i could not find it on youtube. Finally someone else picked on on this LIE. What get's me is she has always looked too old for the age she was going for. Just keep it real, i know JayZ knew she was old and experienced, and not the innocence of a 20 nothing. Shame on you Beyonce, those little young girls now are going to be older than what they already are. all because you and your cronies LIED. I'd tell her to embrace her age and come clean to her LOYAL fan who thinks everybody is against her. SHE LIED>:O

3:46AM 08/23/08 kiara

u were my friends #1 fan!!but u are not now i thought you looked 40 anyway

3:44AM 08/23/08 jess

u are such a lier beyonce ow all ur frends are not so sorry

7:36AM 06/10/08 truth

miss thang I am in the industry and it is a known fact that celebs do lie about their age all the time. Pictures/videos showing celebs as children are altered to make you think that they are the age that they are telling the public. The reason for the lie? To appear young, youthful for record and movie sales etc. It is the same reason why a few indusry women have children and are not willing to admit it to the public.

9:19AM 05/11/08 Israel

I think she is beatiful by nature and i love her no matter what either old or young and to aded on that she is good at what she does

7:57AM 05/01/08 Joseph NE@L

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2:13PM 04/30/08 Joseph A. Ne@L

I Think The Situation is Funny 4 RE@L Bec@use JusT Think @bout it @lli@h GOD BLESS The De@D Died in Her E@rly Twenties I Believe She w@s Younger Th@n Beounce and She Would Be in Her E@rly Thirties Tod@Y Hmmmmm!!!MEOW!!!mmmmm!!!WoW!!!mmmmm So JusT Think @bout Th@T I Believe She is JusT @bouT 30 or 31 Ye@rs of @ge or Beounce MusT H@ve BEEN FROZEN in TIME •?L?L?• Pe@ce

6:56AM 04/19/08 TEE TEE

32 IS NOTHIN MY MOTHER IS 30

12:02AM 04/05/08 Whatever

Well, I honestly believe that she is in her thirties, sice ALL stars lie about their ages anyway. Maybe it's the makeup that makes her look old or her genes. Because I have sister that are from the age of 25-29 and they don't look that old.

1:59AM 02/29/08 Serwah

wat's e big deal aba her age? just get urselves busy. I love u Bee

8:06AM 02/18/08 DB

now here's the funny thing everyone is so quick to respond to this blog but dont really read it the person posting doesnt know how to count to begin with if anybody was born in 1974 they would be 33 truning 34 come on now people keep up it is so easy to make people believe anything u want them 2 think if

11:05PM 01/31/08 INNOCENTBROWNEYEZ

OKAY EVERYBODY IS SAYING BEYONCE IS LYING ABOUT HER AGE THAT SHE WAS BORN IN 1974 AND NOT 81 I MEAN COME ON THAT WOULD HAVE TO MEAN THAT SOLANGE WAS BORN IN 1980 BECAUSE SOLANGE IS FIVE YEARS YOUNGER THAN BEYONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND SHE ALSO WASNT NO SEVENTEEN WHEN SHE BECAME PREGNANT AND GOT MARRIED SO HOW IS THAT SO......PEOPLE ARE SO FREAKIN DUMB THEY JUST WANNA FIND SOMETHING TO HATE ON BEYONCE ABOUT AND MAKE-UP MAKES U LOOK OLDER AND HOW BIG YOUR HIPS IS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW OLD YOU ARE I MEAN COME ON AND CUT THE GIRL A BREAK

0:15AM 01/27/08 amanda bynes

i am your # 1 fan

10:09PM 11/24/07 untold story

Beyonce did lied!!! My cousin have a tape Star Search with Ed Mcmahon as the host in the early 80s. Beyonce is on there and she was about 15 years old at the time. She was in a singing group with the 80's hairstyles an clothes. Ed Mcmahon interview them and when the show first begin they mention the year. My cousin tried downloadng it to youtube and other websites but for some reason it always get erase. Hmmm I wonder why!!!

7:10AM 11/18/07 g

so wat if shes 32 big deal but still explains y shes going out wid j-z coz his 37

0:27AM 07/26/07 asdfghjkl

she been 25 for 4 years now

0:11AM 07/23/07 zaph_fire

so... wat ever is the tru b day of beyonce,i dnt care about it..coz i love her vry much,,even she dnt know me..hehehe

2:28AM 05/17/07 lea-ellen

beyonce is my biggest fan ever and wat ever her age is she is still beauiful.

0:46AM 04/23/07 Ms. Ashley

Who cares....................................is her age gonna stop ANY of her up and coming events? DIDN'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1:12PM 04/22/07 knockreal

Well this doesnt really make a diffrence about her age, she is still a very rich young lady... "I should sue for false information"!

7:13PM 04/07/07 Sébastien

C'est totalement faux! Je n'y crois pas du tout! C'est une rumeur sensée l'affaiblir, but she is unbreakable!

7:52AM 03/21/07 toccara jefferies

hey!

7:51AM 03/21/07 toccara jefferies

11:41AM 01/18/07 amber

i went to high school with beyonce in texas (and i'm 24), so unless her and her family have been cooking up this lie since WAY before she was famous, this story is totally absurd...i'm not sure why anyone would go to all the trouble of making fake documents and whatnot, but they need to get a life!

12:41AM 01/16/07 Darryll

Why would she lie about her age? even if she is 32. Since Beyoncé came out all the media has done is critise her. They need to leave her alone.

11:48AM 12/28/06 sylvia

am a fan of beyonce but we all cant be sure coz we havent seen the real birth cert.internet has all correct and lying information so to me i dont believe she is in her 30s thou she looks older than 25 .u guys some times make up makes women look older than they are make up is good sometimes u look beautiful but on the other side some people my just look the old mama way it depends ,sure look at yo close pals today and tommorrow they will change with thier make up

2:48AM 12/22/06 lavigne's FECES

how about avril lavigne shits her stinky FECES in my mouth i want to stick my tounge deep in avril lavigne's stinky asshole so i can taste her stinky FECES i want to stick my finger in avril lavigne's stinky asshole and see her FECES on my finger i want to smear avril lavigne's stinky brown human FECES all over my nude body

7:03PM 12/13/06 x

does it really matter? Even if it is true, it doesn't change the fact that she has talent and frankly I just find the whole thing hysterical!

3:14PM 12/10/06 ava

if she's really 25 she looks damn much older

9:49PM 12/09/06 blkbttfly

Of Course she is lying about her age..she seems to be past 25..I beleive that she is in her early 30's.. Nothing to really stress aobut though...all celebrities lie about their age...and as for Amerie she will be turning 29 in January. She isn't 25 as she claims. I went to undergrad with her and I know this for a FACT!

10:19PM 12/08/06 someone

Is this really news? No one knows how old I really am except my mom and dad..Shes beautiful, so who care?

5:37PM 12/08/06 Milo

Yeah, who doesn't lie about their age??

5:35PM 12/08/06 Rockie

Well I heard that actor/ actresses lie about their age in order to say in the industry longer. So, it is possible. Well whatever age she is, she still looks good.

5:34PM 12/08/06 Sin

Anything possible. My hairdresser told me about 2 weeks ago that she went on veromi.net and saw Beyonce true age. She said it said that Beyonce was in her 30's.

4:27PM 12/08/06 Paul1550

This is a hard one to swallow. Beyonce is so on the ball that I find it hard to believe that she has any skeletons in her closet.

4:13PM 12/08/06 Ny

Now, yal play nice. LOL I dont think alot of people care if she is laying about her age. And Susan has a great point......I'm sure we've all seen THS or Driven....There was SOO much footage of them growing up together and all that. So I think its a lil hard to believe. BUT....I never thought Ciara was a hermaphrodite......... So...Who knows?

3:05PM 12/08/06 miss thang

thank you susan, i agree with you..i forgot about star search as well. sophia, i don't even write on these things that often & i don't remember your name, so that being said you must be the same person trying to pick a fight because of your immaturity. I am so better than that! My opinions are just that..and if you don't agree or don't want to take on a debate then just leave things be!

2:37PM 12/08/06 susan peters

This can't be true from all the footage of her, solange, kelly, and the other members of the group that started with them. Then there's the footage of them on Star Search. Beyonce would have looked bigger and older then she did if she really was 6 years older.

2:35PM 12/08/06 hotstuff

FIRST OF ALL, she was born in 1981. so she just turned 25. if that what is the age she claims to be. get your story right! next is, so what if she's 32. she still look good!

2:25PM 12/08/06 Sophia

your annoying either way...i'm with captain obvious. everytime i see your name it annoys me

2:18PM 12/08/06 miss thang

Captain Obvious, you must be a brit fan...lol! but I just love how maturity comes out when a simple debate. Please grow up. But to reflect on the obvious, you will not hear from her camp because this doesn't phase her and another error that was reported, she isn't saying she's 26 and using 1981 as bday yr would make her 25....

1:54PM 12/08/06 aaron

my grandma changed her age when she moved to this country so it is very possible. her passport showed the age she wanted it to show so i do believe this. its the birth certificate you cant hide.

1:40PM 12/08/06 donya

hmmm, well even though she's been getting on my last nerve lately with overexposure & back-handed compliments, her rack still looks good, whatever her age is. i wish mine looked that luscious & firm

1:36PM 12/08/06 Captain Obvious

miss thang always thinks she knows it all, she's just a bitter cunt out to try to prove everyone wrong. youre so fuckin annoying

1:29PM 12/08/06 miss thang

yes that is true but in this case, that isn't even the case. you can tell from the old photos and the band members that she isn't 32. People don't buy into the hype. Plus if this was so where people "buys" their age like you are implying, JLO who has more money than Beyonce, would had done it a long time ago instead of just hiding her age.

1:23PM 12/08/06 starr

miss thang, with enough money u can get what ever u want and be how old u want

12:48AM 12/08/06 Shawn

It's not that serious if she's 32, atleast she's not a man!

12:48AM 12/08/06 miss thang

there is no truth to this, now there are ?'s rather or not Beyonce is her true name because the father did change Solanges' name once she got into the business. Plus on Young, Black, and Fabulous blog (you can find link on tmz.com) had once showed a pic of her passport with dob on it and you know you can not get passport without the correct info...especially in today's time!

12:25AM 12/08/06 Danielle

Well that would explain why she looks so much older than 26. She definitely looks like she's in her 30's....very cute, but age appropriate.