Kim Kardashian is pregnant! After struggling with infertility while trying to conceive her and Kanye West's second child the reality star is telling the world she's expecting.
The big announcement came in a preview clip for an upcoming episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians that first aired Sunday night. Take a look:
Say what you will about Kim and Kanye (and their ability to make the most press out of every moment of their personal lives), but I'm happy for them. It pains me to hear of anyone longing to have a baby and being unable to get pregnant.
First of all I'm hoping Kim Kardashian's 2015 pregnancy goes smoothly, after the swelling and likely preeclampsia she went through while carrying North. Secondly -- I hope they name the baby Easton West! I mean, if you've gone down that road already you may as well keep on it.
A quick look at other pun-tastic names parents (some fellow celebs!) have previously picked:
Gwen Stefani absolutely loves motherhood, but the sleepless nights that come along with having a little one aren't exactly her favorite. The songstress, who is raising sons Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo with husband Gavin Rossdale, has opened up about what she'd do with the day all to herself and it sounds like perfection.
"I've always loved sleeping," the 45-year-old No Doubt star, whose youngest is now 15-months-old, toldElle for their latest issue. "Even in my 20s, I would be like, 'Oh my God! We are playing at midnight?' So my perfect day would be sleeping in and falling back asleep as many times as possible without an alarm."
Speaking of dreaming, Gwen Stefani has a very specific place in mind for where she'd like to see her family settle one day.
"I'm definitely a tea girl," she told the magazine while talking food and drinks. "I could drink tea all day long. As for breakfast, Gavin and I once travelled to Morocco and stayed in this little riad. They would make these pancakes that were almost like crepes, but drizzled in honey. I fantasize about them, about having the children there, eating those pancakes surrounded by the trees and chameleons and other crazy-cool animals."
Crazy-awesome! I'm starting to feel like Gwen and I might just be kindred spirits, because not only would I too love to travel to such a -- cough -- sweet escape and eat magical foods, but I love hearing from someone who loves sleep as much as I do. Such a shame I can't marry it and have its little nap babies.
I think you're either a person who feels that way about sleep or not straight from the get-go. I was the same as she was in my 20s, and having kids only complicated the matter. Oh, the things I would have given for uninterrupted rest! I will say though, as not only I have gotten older but my kids have too and I actually am getting regular sleep, my love affair with shuteye has mellowed out a bit. Currently my dream day would be a long, challenging hike followed by some amazing food and then nodding off. Sleep is still in there, don't get me wrong, but it's now the icing on the cake instead of the entire goal.
Nicki Minaj, the booty-jiggling rapper who isn't afraid to push the boundaries, has a future in mind you might not expect. Just one month after announcing her engagement to rapper Meek Mill, the 32-year-old star has opened up to Cosmopolitanabout what's down the road for her.
"Ten years from now, I will have two children, unless my husband wants three," Nicki, who doesn't yet have any children, told the magazine.
She went on to elaborate, "I will be into my fitness a lot more, I will stop yo-yo dieting, and I’ll be a housewife with careers that I can run from home. I want to be able to cook for my children, bake cookies for them, and watch them grow up. I just want to be Mommy. Take them to school, go to the parent-teacher conference, help them with their homework, and put their work on the refrigerator."
I can relate to the notion that working from home offers some great flexibility when it comes to also being a parent, but wow -- she's planning to do the whole nine yards way more thoroughly than I ever have!
There are some ways I'm a traditional mom, but in general I don't think of myself that way. On the one hand I am here for my kids after school nearly every day, and I do pretty much all of the grocery shopping and cooking for our family while my husband takes on the yard and remodeling projects. I'm not sure how we fell so squarely into those roles, but it seems to work pretty well for us.
I'm terrible about being involved in the kids' school, however. My husband is the one who checks in on their homework, and he's also the one who chaperones on the field trips and occasionally volunteers in the classroom. The teachers go nuts over having a dad be the one to spend time helping the kids out, and I'm happy to let him take in all the praise.
Isn't it interesting how some musicians and actors plan to take baby with them, mix parenting right into their traveling schedule, and then others think the best route to go is settling down?
Nicki Minaj -- who was born Onika Tanya Maraj -- is just one of the many stars out there who go by something other than what their birth certificate reads. Take a look at our gallery of celebrity name changers:
Jaime King is determined to further conversation about infertility and miscarriage, even if that means taking a risk with her celebrity image.
A look at what the beauty, who is currently pregnant with a little brother or sister for her and Kyle Newman's 19-month-old son James, had to say in a recent interview with FitBump:
Q: You’ve been very open about your difficulties getting pregnant, giving birth, breastfeeding, going back to work and the like. Why is it important to be so vocal?
A: I think that in Hollywood it’s so put upon us to put out there that somehow our lives are perfect and we live this glamorous, unattainable, beautiful existence. That’s just not the truth. My journey with having polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis and not finding out until I was 28 and having years of suffering and pain and not knowing why and being very confused about it -- it took basically seven years from the first time I got pregnant to have my first child. I would see in the press 'Jamie King is so beautiful and her beautiful baby and her beautiful family and her perfect existence and blah blah blah' and it really irritated me.
Q: Those are things a lot of people don’t want to discuss at all.
A: I was scared to come out and talk to people about what I went through because it’s so taboo and it’s not sexy. But it’s like, welcome to the real world. If I want to make an impact here, I’m going to use my voice so that I can change things. And if that means a young woman is diagnosed early because I bring out the awareness of what the symptoms are than I know I’ve done something right with my life. That I haven’t hidden in the shadows just because I thought it was the cooler, sexier way to sell myself.
I totally get what she is saying and commend her choosing to be vocal, but at the same time I know I've seen others try to have these conversations as well.
A look back at what other celebrity moms have had to say about their experiences with infertility and loss:
I think each of these women, who has stepped out of the celebrity image that's been crafted for them, has been brave. Like Jaime said, it's not easy to show others you're a real human who is vulnerable to pain and heartache when you've been carefully displayed and marketed as a brand.
But even knowing that and appreciating what they've shared I'm at a loss as to what we can do to improve the conversation further. We've been trying in recent years to talk of the realities of infertility, miscarriage and loss, but how do we make that big change for the better?
Seven months pregnant and traveling alone with her toddler, Sarah Blackwood's flight from San Fransisco to Vancouver would probably have been a challenge at the best of times. However, the 5-hour travel day turned into a 12-hour nightmare when she was publicly embarrassed and eventually kicked off the plane all together. Why? Her 23-month-old's crying was apparently deemed a "safety risk" by United Airlines staff.
Sarah, a singer with the Canadian band Walk Off the Earth, was en route to Vancouver, where they are set to play on Friday. She freely admits that her son Giorgio was upset as the plane prepared for take-off. In fact, she says, he was crying "very loudly." Still, she was surprised when a flight attendant told her that if she couldn't "control" her child the plane would be turned around.
"I looked at her and said 'I'm doing what I can here, I'm holding him. This is what I'm supposed to do,'" Sarah tells CTV. After she was approached a second time, "My eyes were welling up, I was so embarrassed."
Not long after that the plane was diverted from the runway - to refuel, the captain announced. When the plane arrived back at the airport another attendant arrived to tell Sarah that she and Giorgio - who was by that time asleep on her lap - had to leave, citing "safety concerns."
The 34-year-old, who is expecting her second child with her partner and band-mate Gianni Luminati, says she was in tears as she was escorted off the plane with her son.
United Airlines seems to have messed with the wrong mom, though.
Sarah later took to Twitter to share her story with her almost 30,000 followers, and it's quickly gone viral since.
As the story gained momentum, United Airlines issued a statement explaining the "difficult decision" to remove Sarah and her son, saying, "Despite numerous requests, the child was not seated, as required by federal regulation to ensure passenger safety, and was repeatedly in the aisle of the aircraft before departure and during taxi."
Sarah disputes this, though she admits her son was "very squirmy" and upset, and says that she's since received many emails from passengers on the same flight who are willing to back up her version of events.
She also later posted an audio recording of a United employee back at the airport explaining that the safety issue had been with the seat belt - that she neglected to secure the belt around her child as well as herself.
As the story of her ill-fated journey explodes online, Sarah says she's just hoping to be compensated for the trip - and for an apology.
"There is no reason why any mother should be apologetic to the people around her because her baby is having a hard time on a flight," she says. "They're not adults. They are not always consolable the way that people think that they are."
The Child United felt was too Dangerous to Fly Giorgio Michael
My heart goes out to this mama. I shied away from flying with my kids when they were young because I worried that they'd start screaming and I wouldn't be able to calm them down. I worried about other passengers' reactions, about my wailing baby ruining the flight for everyone.
Every mom I know cringes at the thought of their kid kicking up a fuss on a flight. We all arrive armed with an arsenal of toys, snacks and whatever else we can stuff into a carry-on to help cut the odds of that happening. If a baby is crying on a plane, I can pretty much guarantee that mom and dad are doing everything they possibly can to make it stop.
To roll your eyes or quietly complain about it is one thing, but humiliation and punishment seems to cross the line.
Simon Cowell swore he would never change a diaper, and by golly it turns out he's a man of his word. In a new interview with Hello! magazine the father of 15-month-old Eric with girlfriend Lauren Silverman opens up about just how much he loves being a dad as well as his hopes for more kids
.Simon Cowell on loving fatherhood: “I still haven’t changed a nappy, but I love being a dad. I never expected to be a father, but I love it. Eric makes me laugh. He and I communicate very well because we basically like the same things — Scooby Doo, Disney movies, laughing at the dogs.”
Simon on the possibility of having more children: “It would be lovely to have two and, yes, I would like to have a little girl."
Lauren, who also has a 9-year-old son named Adam from her previous marriage, also got in on the interview.
Lauren on their relationship: “Simon’s house is now a family home. I have three boys now, including him. He’s lots of fun, he makes us all laugh a lot. I think Simon has changed me. He makes me laugh all the time. I can’t get angry with him because when I’m trying to be cross, he just makes me laugh."
Lauren on incorrectly predicting Eric was a girl: “When I was pregnant with Eric I was told by the doctors he was a girl. But he just fooled them. There were a few names floating around, but we had our name picked out and it would be lovely to have a girl. The only problem is that I will feel sorry for her when she is older because she won’t be able to leave the house, and no man would dare come near here because Simon would be so protective.
It makes me smile to hear about how much Simon Cowell is surprised he likes fatherhood, but I am absolutely shocked he still has yet to change a diaper. I totally get that no one really wants to wipe eight shades of baby poo off a tiny, squirming bum, but come on! Does this mean Lauren is doing all of them -- or that there's a nanny always on hand?
Just when you start to think we as fellow parents all go through the same highs and lows along the journey, rich and famous or not, there comes a reminder some among us aren't doing quite as much of the grunt work.
What would you say if your partner swore they were never going to change your child's diaper?
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Despite managing to get out of diaper duty, Simon Cowell does seem to be a doting father. A look back at pictures of him as a new dad, when he hit the beach with Lauren Silverman and newborn baby Eric:
Live action Disney remakes are a pretty hot trend these days: We've seen the Sleeping Beauty based Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, Cinderella, starring Lily James, and two separate takes on Snow White - Mirror Mirror starred Julia Roberts and Lily Collins while Snow White and the Huntsman featured Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart.
All of these films have done fairly well the box office, so it comes as no surprise to hear that there are plans for yet another one.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest Disney classic to get a live action redux is everyone's favorite tinker fairy, Tinkerbell.
Though details of the project are being closely guarded, THR does have the inside scoop on which actress will be bringing Tink to life. It's a name you're sure to recognize.
The 39-year-old mom-of-three is reportedly set to produce the film, said to be "the story you don’t know" about Tinkerbell and friends, as well as star in it.
Spot the resemblance?
Physical similarities aside, I think Reese is a great pick! I can definitely see her pulling off Tink's sweet, perky, slightly mischievous personality.
Of course, that still leaves the rest of Tinkerbell's crew. We'll have to wait and see who else joins the cast of famous fairies.
Chrissy Teigen is not yet a mom, but she's noticed a thing or two about those of us that are. The model, who is looking forward to having children with husband John Legend, has opened up about parents losing perspective after their baby arrives and more.
Take a look at what she and the singer had to say to DuJour magazine:
John on falling in love with Chrissy: “The more I got to know her, I started to realize how funny and cool she was. You meet all kinds of good-looking people, but she was so vibrant and engaging. Even when we’d text, she was always saying something clever.”
She wants to have a baby next year: “We want a lot of kids. I would love to have three or four of my own, and then adopt a few. So basically I’ll be pregnant the rest of my life. … [The thought] of getting boobs thrills me. And John looooves pregnant women, so–”
John is hoping for a girl: “She thinks I’m not athletic enough to have a boy. I’m a musician, I’m good with women and I’m a feminist, so I think I’ll be a good ‘girl daddy.’ Part of my goal in making money is so that our kids won’t have to fly on regular planes and embarrass us. I’m saving up so they can fly private.”
Chrissy on the kind of parent she won't be: “I feel like sometimes when people give birth, they give birth to a tiny part of their brain. Whatever they thought they would be goes out the window and they kind of lose their minds. I am 1,000 percent not going to have an Instagram account for my baby. It will not have a hashtag. If I have a hashtag for my baby, just kill me.”
Kill me? Obviously that's said in jest, but it seems to me Chrissy has some mighty strong opinions on moms without even having walked a mile in our shoes yet.
For the record, there is neither a hashtag for my kids nor do they have their own social media accounts, but all the same I try and take it easy on judging those that do decide to go that route. For me, the whole idea is along the lines of those giant hair bows some moms stick on their baby's head. It's not for me, but I'm not going to get all caught up in caring if other people like them.
Parenting, I'm starting to suspect, is one part figuring out how you want to do it and two parts learning to let others do as they please.
What do you make of the assertion we lose a bit of our minds when we give birth?
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When Chrissy Teigen is pregnant, do you think they'll find out if it's a girl ahead of time? Here's what other stars had to say about finding out baby's sex:
