Celeste (My Stepmother is an Alien)

Celeste is a female extraterrestrial who appears in the 1988 movie My Stepmother is an Alien. She is sent to Earth after an apparent 'attack' on their home world to try and find out what happened and if what was done can be reversed before her world is destroyed. She is portrayed by Kim Basinger.

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Celeste is stated to be 1296 years old, with her species been 'where humanity will be in 55 centuries, if [humanity] makes it that far'. Her species reproduces by synthesis in a petri dish due to sex been 'inefficient and messy' - although after her experience from having sex with Steven, Celeste admits she felt her species' descision to simply abandon sex was a little hasty.

Her species also uses 104% of their brain's capacity, as opposed to humanity using 36%, while their lives are spent in perfect harmony - improving their civilisation with none of the erractic highs and lows that occur with humans - although Steven compares this to living in Switzerland. A negative side of Celeste's species is that they don't feel emotion, which puts Celeste into turmoil when she begins to feel love and other feelings for Steven and Jessie - most notably on whether she should stay with them or return home.

Celeste is more resilient to heat, as shown by the fact she could grab hard boiled eggs out of boiling hot water with her bare hands without been burnt. Furthermore, she is shown eating cigarettes and drinking battery acid. Other new experiences for Celeste include sneezing (which one of the council members later does) and sexual intercourse - which she intially sees as been disgusting when learning about it but enjoys it when she does it with Steven.



To help her with her mission on Earth, Celeste is aided by her commander - a one-eyed female alien creature known as 'Bag' - who hides in a designer purse which Celeste carries around with her. Bag's main abilities include been able to create any object almost instantly - such as designer dresses, ID cards, diamonds, etc. as well as providing information on different concepts, such as kissing. The purse also acts as an amplifier for Celeste's abilites, such as when she uses it to save Jessie from been hit by a car by changing her body's density - causing Jessie to just 'pass through' the vehicle without harm. In a negative attribute, Bag is capable of destroying an entire planet and tries to do this to Earth after a way is found to save Celeste's homeworld, but is killed before she can complete this task. Without bag, however, Celeste still has powers of her own - such as Telekinesis.

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My Stepmother is an Alien (1988 film)