Celebrity Babes: Shiloh,Suri,Sean P & Jayden James

Sassy Smith — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:06:00 GMT

What is the attraction to celebrity babies and toddlers? It most likely stems from the attraction to their parents - the never ending need to know what's happening in a celebrity's life, what they're wearing, eating, driving, who they're hanging out with, dating, marrying and naturally, when a famous person has a child, then that child becomes part of the desire to know all. Plus, they're adorable too!

Celebrity kids are a hot commodity and there's no end in sight, especially with what seems like some sort of Tinseltown baby boom. We're constantly on "bump watch," speculating on who's pregnant, or waiting for the next actor or singer to pop their baby out. Have to feed the demand right?

Dina Sansing, entertainment director of Us Weekly says, "Celebrities are much bigger than they were three years ago, so (interest in) every aspect of their lives has increased, and along with that is babies."

Then of course, there's the baby photo bidding wars that get the internet buzzing - have to see those first 'exclusive' photos of the celebrity newborn!

Sansing adds, "You've seen a lot of big babies in the last couple of years.

Joanne Koch, co-auther of Good Parenting for Hard Times and a professor of English at National-Louis University says, "Looking through the morning paper, you want to push past bad news, about the economy, and the gas prices, and the war, and all these things and - ah! - you can read about the celebrities.

"And what is more hopeful and promising than a baby? I think it's part of that hard-times mentality of escaping that drove people in the really hard times to the movies in the first place."

For some celebrities, having a baby makes them more famous. Dina Sansing says, "Having a baby can elevate someone's level of stardom. For someone like Nicole Richie, she had gone through all these weight struggles - everyone thought she was too thin - and then she's having a baby. And therefore her life becomes more interesting."

Pamela Brand, a marriage and family therapist, says that moms particularly want to know more about the celebs and their babies.

"It takes these young, beautiful, almost perfect-appearing women, and brings them to a different level. They open up their lives. And they're not all that open, and you can't really understand all that much about them when you see them in pictures. They're hard to read. You just see them as these beautiful beings.

"When they have children and are willing to show their children and their families, you can read a little bit more into what's going on."

Brand adds, that celebrity marriages, can also be affected by the birth of a child and we can see a glimpse of the true personality of the star.

"You can start to tell a little bit about the character of the celebrity by watching them, and I think that is fascinating to people. They want to try to understand who's who and how do they function and how do they compare with me, and how is their relationship affected?

"Marriages can be very challenged by the birth of a child, or a second child, so I think that people take fascination in knowing, oh, it's not just me. They're having trouble, too."

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HerBadMother — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:52:00 GMT

Okay, I know: all pregnant women are beautiful. They glow with the light of a thousand moons, and emanate all of the beauty and gloriousness that is within Mother Nature's power to confer. That said: all pregnant women might be beautiful, but they are not all hot. There's a difference.

Jamie Lynn Spears is an adorable little pregnant creature, but to call her hot would just be wrong. She's a sweatshirts and polka-dots kind of pregnant-pretty, not a holy fox hot mama! kind of pregnant-pretty. Ditto Melissa Joan Hart, back when she was pregnant - and this notwithstanding those nude photos she did. She was - is - just too wide-eyed girl-next-door-who-happened-to-get-knocked-up pretty to be a truly hot preggo. Tori Spelling desperately wants to be a hot preggo, but - in large part because of her insistence that she's hot - she's really more in the category of attractive-woman-misguidedly-aspiring-to-MILFdom. Which is to say, not all that hot.

Salma Hayek in her pregnancy? HOTT. Ditto Halle Berry. You know it when you see it.

Herewith, then, the five hottest celebrity preggos of Spring 2008:

Angelina Jolie. A no-brainer, really, because she could out-hot anybody, any day, under any circumstances. (Evidence? She was hot as a LIZARD in Beowulf. That's some serious mojo.) So get that pregnancy glow on her and the few extra curves that maternity provides and you have smoking partum hotness. Smoking.

That eye candy on her arm doesn't hurt, either.

Gwen Stefani. Some might think her a little too hard-edged for the title of 'HOT', but that's just the thing. Gwen, when not pregnant, is a little bit hard-looking. Like, she could and would kick your ass hard-looking. With those biceps and all that black eyeliner and all. But pregnancy softens her up, just enough, to turn that hardness into bona fide sexy. She could still kick your ass, but she'd keep one on her belly while doing it. Which is kind of sweet, yanno? And definitely sexy.

Granted, that muu-muu is a bit more 'Mrs. Roper' than it is 'pregnant hotty,' but I would never say that to Gwen's face. Because, that whole ass-kicking thing? Hot, but also a little intimidating.

Laila Ali. She's just flat-out, full caps, GORGEOUS. And she could, very possibly, out-fierce Gwen Stefani. But, like Gwen, that fierceness tamed by a little partum softness just becomes extra-strength (in all senses of the term) sex-ay.

I mean: a pregnant American Gladiator? What's hotter than that? Seriously.

Alessandra Ambrosio. Okay, so maybe it's bit too easy to name a pregnant Victoria's Secret model to a list of hot preggos, but really - it's easy for a reason. Brazilian lingerie models are the sine qua non of conventional hotness, so is it any surprise that a pregnant Brazilian lingerie model would be a must-lister here? Also, look at her. She makes pregnancy look like it's just a big fiesta at some super-club on Mallorca. She could almost convince you that it is the most fun that you'll ever have, and, also, that sex during those nine months will be incomparably fantastic.

That it's all a total lie is beside the point. Such is the power of the hot.

Jessica Alba. DUH.

What can I say? As with Angelina Jolie, if you can't grasp that this lady makes pregnancy hot, then I have nothing to teach you. Go back to your frilly high-necked maternity blouses and be secure in the knowledge that although frilly high-necked blouses might not land you any Allure covers, they at least protect your expanding mammaries from the elements. And there's something to be said for that, yanno?

So... who'd I miss? Who would YOU add to this list?

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