We’ll file this under the rapidly growing category of “Dumb Stuff Celebrities Believe.” Drew Barrymore thinks she was a dolphin in a previous incarnation, and she has enough money to take the idea way too seriously. According to National Enquirer, Drew has turned her home into a shrine to Flipper and his pals, with more than 200 dolphin statues and figurines scattered about the place. Even in a large house, that’s a dolphin pretty much everywhere you look. For her part, Bai Ling thinks she was once a cheetah, which explains the cheetah tramp stamp on her lower back.

I’ll confess I don’t understand the appeal of this notion. Despite their Ryan Seacrest perma-grins, dolphins lead rather boring lives, and they’re quite capable of being vicious little bastards. Besides, this sounds a bit like past life regression, where everyone discovers they were once a princess or a Viking warrior, and no one was ever an ignorant, disease-ridden serf. Why is everyone a former dolphin or graceful feline? Didn’t anyone experience life as a wombat, or a star-nosed mole? Of course, Robert Pattinson probably was a graceful feline.