Radar Magazine:
Fresh off her October split with her wife of five years, Kelli Carpenter, Rosie O'Donnell was spotted holding hands with a new lady on Tuesday in Miami. The couple strolled around Miami Beach, holding hands and enjoying the Florida sunshine.
UPDATED (12:00 P.M. Wednesday Dec 30, 2009)
Rosie O'Donnell and new girlfriend, Tracy Kachtick-Anders
People reports:
Rosie O'Donnell is dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas-based artist, O'Donnell's rep confirms to PEOPLE. The pair were spotted walking hand-in-hand in Miami Beach on Tuesday.
In an interview with Examiner.com, Kachtick-Anders said, "Maybe for a future plan, I'd like a date with an inspiring woman!" Like O'Donnell, Kachtick-Anders is active in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parenting and adoption issues. She launched Open Arms Campaign, a non-profit organization to recruit and foster adoptive families that targets the LGBT community.
"I have become an activist and work to educate everyone, not only about the plight of foster children," she wrote on TheRainbowBabies.com, "but also the inequality that faces LGBT people in their quest to create families."Kachtick-Anders has six children, five of whom are adopted, according to the Examiner.com.