The blogosphere’s atwitter with news about the newest member of the Beckham brood – and her name. Joining big brothers Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz, HarperSeven was born yesterday morning in Los Angeles. Harper is relatively tame for a celebaby – it’s no Dweezil or even Apple – and People reveals that as an old English occupational name, it’s long been one of Victoria’s favourites. As for Seven, the newest Spice Baby was born on a Sunday morning in July – seven a.m. on the seventh day of the week in the seventh month of the year. She weighed seven lbs. (and 10 oz). Plus, it was the number of David’s jersey number when he played for Manchester United and the English national team… Or maybe they just think George Costanza was on to something. Read more...
Earlier this month, popstar Pink (or P!nk) and her motocross racer husband Carey Hart just welcomed a baby girl into the world. People are excited to see this new edition to their family. So excited in fact, the paparazzi were following them around trying get that first picture of baby Willow Sage. Pink was more than a little pissed about the aggressive lengths photographers will go to in order to snap that pic. Pink’s rant awakened the protective mama bear in Stephanie Potter, who has the following to say:
Back when I was swimming in my Mother’s tent covered belly, social media, let alone the internet, wasn’t on her mind. She worried about our neighborhood, what friends I would have, and how she would protect me from local strangers and potential creeps. She had no need to worry about people one city away, let alone folks in different time zones. Read more...
3. In positive breast cancer news, the government of Ontario is expanding its funding for drugs like Herceptin. Now patients like Jill Anzarut can receive the drug whereas before Anzarut had been told her tumor was too small to qualify.
1. Victoria Beckham is 6 months pregnant, but you’d never know it, thanks to help from Hollywood stylist to the super-svelte, Rachel Zoe. We couldn’t have a pregnant woman looking pregnant for goodness’ sake! Via Jezebel.
2. We’re willing to bet you try to control the amount of sugar your kids consume. What’s so bad about sugar, anyway? In New York Times Sunday Magazine
3. Hey, know what’s better for you than sugar? Apples. Via The Globe and Mail
4. The House of Fendi launched its kids’ collection in NYC last week with a fashion show at the Fifth Avenue store. What do you think?
1. A recent New York Times article argued that picture books aren’t as popular with the kids these days as they used to be. A California elementary school disagreed with the article and sent in a letter to the editor. In the form of a 15-foot scroll.
Recalling that other famous (fictional) yours-and-mine-and-ours family, Merkin’s article comes complete with a Brady-inspired blue grid with 15 key Keeping Up with the Kardashians characters. (notably missing: Kourtney’s boyfriend, who, we gather after watching the above clip, does not have a friend in Khloé)
The gist of Merkin’s article is that Keeping Up with the Kardashians is not wildly successful because it’s another sneak peak into the fabulous lives of celebrities; rather, it’s successful because however crazy and extravagant they may be, they’re truly loving and all about togetherness. Kris Kardashian (the matriarch and mastermind behind pushing to get a reality series) tells Merkin that they still do a family Sunday dinner. And it’s not just the kids that Kris and husband Bruce Jenner raised together (all the K’s plus Rob), but also the four kids from Jenner’s pre-Kris marriages. Read more...
Except they didn’t. They tore themselves away from social media and otherwise went about their day-to-day lives. (What constitutes day-to-day for Lady Gaga, we haven’t the foggiest.)
So Alicia Keys called up some celebri-pals with substantial Twitter followings and asked them to stop Facebooking and tweeting on World AIDS Day. They’ll resume their microblogging ways once the Buy Life campaign hits $1,000,000, which then goes to Keys’ Keep a Child Alive charity.
We actually think Alicia Keys is pretty great. She’s ridiculously talented, not some flash-in-the-pan one-hit-wonder-type, and we sincerely believe she wants to do all she can to support families dealing with HIV and AIDS. She’s also smart; as New York Times columnist Amy Wallace wrote, “(Keys) knows that she’s not alone in thinking that America increasingly treats its celebrities like commodities.” Read more...
