Shiloh Jolie-Pitt: 'gender bending' debacle

This is outrageous. We have definitely gone to the bad place if it is now appropriate 1) to make 3 year old children the subject of tabloids and 2) to attack 3 year old children publicly who have no means of understanding or responding to the things that are being written about them. If anything we should all be applauding Shiloh for her desire to look different than most girls her age (*cough* *cough* Suri Cruise).

"Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory," Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1, tells Life & Style. Celebrity stylist Gili Rashal-Niv agrees. "I get that times are tough but does Angie really need to have Shiloh sharing clothes with her brothers? Hopefully we won't be seeing Maddox in one of Shiloh's dresses any time soon."

Cross-dressing? Are you f-ing kidding me?! What pisses me off even more is that Angelina is being blamed for her wardrobe. Anyone with a 3 year old knows, children are more than capable of choosing their own clothes at that age and most parents also know that it is almost impossible to force a 3 year old child to wear something that they don't want to wear.

Life and Style you should be bloody ashamed of yourselves.

News you can use

Monday news roundup:

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada says a C-section should not be offered to a pregnant woman unless there is a valid medical reason to perform one. But, a University of British Columbia study found that 2 per cent of obstetricians were in favour of a woman's right to choose a C-section for herself, even in the absence of a medical indication.

Speaking of caesars, Charlotte Church says giving birth naturally was pretty rough: "It's absolutely, disgustingly horrendous.It's shocking I tell you that. I had both babies at home, two home births, just with gas and air. It was horrendous. I mean it was amazing and awesome and crazily whatever, a completely different experience but you know, I might do it again because I'm a little bit of a sadist that way."

Over in supermodel preggo land, the maternity style wars were on as Heidi Klum and Gisele Bundchen tooled around town with their bumps in all their glory

In case you missed it, Shiloh Pitt, 3, lost her front tooth. This has prompted such heated internet discussion, forcing Brangelina to issue a press release answering questions about the obvious gap in Shiloh's smile. Most people think Shiloh is too young to start losing teeth, so most of the web is settled on the idea that Zahara either clocked her in the face or she has been eating skittles for breakfast.

Speaking of half-pint celebs, Suri Cruise is not only a style maven for other three year olds, her mother, Katie Holmes points to Suri as her inspiration for her new fashion line she is launching with her stylist Jeanne Yang: "It has been my dream forever to be in fashion and I'm truly inspired by my daughter Suri. She just loves dressing up so I decided to launch this exciting venture with Jeanne." Um, let's just hope that her new line doesn't include sparkly shell shaped handbags or kitten heels.

Oh, and Nicole Richie has snapped back into her size zeros in just under 2 weeks. Ho Hum.

Ange breastfeeding on W magazine cover

A gorgeous photo of Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of the twins and taken by Brad Pitt is featured on the November cover of W magazine. There are not many photos of celebrities breastfeeding...this is definitely a good start. Of getting pregnant, Ange says:

“I think one of the life changing things that he [Brad] did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn’t otherwise be here.”

Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=644672

The Brangelina Bunch

Apparently Brad Pitt shot a series of photos of her and the brood for the November issue of W. He last collaborated with W in July 2005 for a series of photos of he and Ange dressed up as a 1960s married couple, very sensitively released shortly after he and Jen were splitsville.

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brad-pitt-photographs-angelina-jolie-and-kids-for-w-magazine

Mixed bag of pregnancy lollies

Information that you probably could probably do without. Sometimes it amazes me that these things are considered 'news' items:

Angelina Jolie did not conceive her twins through IVF:

"If they had been conceived through IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it," she says. "But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQchnBNzoLcNg4Ze-NPgs1i5XdggD92BNCQO1

Rebecca Romijn is craving ice cream, lots of it.
http://www.usmagazine.com/rebecca-romijns-pregnancy-craving-a-lot-of-ice-cream

And pregorexia is back in the news. Yay for moral panics!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1041605/Plague-pregorexics-How-women-dieting-exercising-pregnancy-cost-babys-health.html

I've already written about it, check out the older posts: http://babybumpproject.blogspot.com/2007/10/pregorexia-eating-for-one.html
http://babybumpproject.blogspot.com/2008/03/pregorexia-update.html

Expensive babies.

The $15 million cover photo...enough said. People just released the photos and the website has been counting down for the last three days. Zoiks.

Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20216352,00.html

With a little help from science

The interwebs is all abuzz with word that the new Brangelina spawn were conceived using IVF. It seems that because the pair want to have lots of kids while they are still young, they decided to bank on the 25% chance that they would have twins through in vitro:

The actress chose the procedure (which can cost around $12,000 a pop) so "she wouldn't have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant," the source tells Us. "She could just knock it out."

I don't have a problem with IVF necessarily and I think things become very complicated when we start judging what is 'ethical' when it comes to reproductive technology. I'm puzzled, however, because Ange is only 33. If indeed, she conceived Shiloh 'naturally' as everyone seems to assume, I would think she has many more years of viable baby-making time and eggs in order to pump out as many children as she so desires. I think it's kind of odd that she's turned herself into a baby factory. Humans carry one baby at a time for a number of evolutionary reasons. Twin pregnancies are extremely taxing on the body. Why do that by choice if you didn't have to?

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/angelina-jolie-twins-conceived-through-in-vitro

Womb raider spawns two of her own

Oh, in case you're living in bunker, Angelina Jolie has given birth to twins by caesarean section. The world can continue to turn.

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/angelina-jolie-has-twins.usmagazine.com/angelina-jolie-has-twins

The most valuable babies in the world

Word on the street is that Ange and Brad are demanding are being offered £11m for the first pictures of the twins. In a revealing article in the Daily Mail (not the most reliable source, but nevertheless...), Ange is holed up in her French hospital making demands and trying to maintain her 'tranquility quotient' which basically means her days are focused on being calm and getting massages and making obnoxious celebrity demands. She apparently travels with a coterie of doctors, midwives and has a pregnancy 'coach'. What does one do with a pregnancy coach if you are not actually in the midst of giving birth? Oh and she's already trying to adopt a boy from the same orphanage where she found Zahara. That would bring her brood up to a whopping 7. Egad.

Anyway, worth a read, if anything just for the salacious gossip:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1031946/Brangelinas-11m-bump-How-couple-planning-turn-twins-lucrative-newborns-ever.html

Ange and her bump

Headline: Fit to burst: Angelina Jolie takes her huge baby bump for a helicopter ride

I don't know about you, but I hardly think that Ange looks 'fit to burst'. Um..she's a pregnant woman, not the Michelin man.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=563945&in_page_id=1773

Angelina: very pregnant

Well. She's pregnant.

I think that's all I have to say about that.

Source: http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272619037.shtml

Angelina Jolie's 'twins' spark rumours of twin pregnancy

According to Star magazine (a highly reliable source), Angelina Jolie is not only pregnant...but pregnant with twins...because Angelina's breasts apparently are a dead give away for pregnancy.

I don't know about anyone else, but I think it's creepy and weird that women have their bellies surveilled constantly for any hint of pregnancy in the first place. Now that bump watch has expanded to 'cleavage' watch, isn't this just another excuse for the paps to perv on celebrity lady lumps? I mean hasn't anyone heard of a push-up bra?







Source: http://www.starmagazine.com/celebrity_news_gossip/entertainment/13791?cid=RSS