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Laila Ali Enjoys Motherhood

Karl Erikson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Laila Ali, 30, has written about stay-at-home moms and breastfeeding in a recent blog. Her biggest surprise of motherhood so far is the breastfeeding. "When a woman decides to nurse her child, she practically becomes a 24-hour milk machine. Not to mention the soreness that comes along with it," Laila says. "You better believe that I got a hold of a breast pump machine real quick so that my husband can help feed the baby at night and during the day!"

9-week-old Curtis Muhammad is definitely keeping Laila busy, but the former "American Gladiators" host and boxer is committed to nursing him for at least 6 months. "There are so many health benefits for babies who are nursed and I can't imagine not taking advantage of the custom made supply that God gave me for my child."

She's so in love with her son. "That is a good thing because he needs so much time and attention." Because of that, she's not working on any projects at the moment. She's devoting 100% of her time to C.J. "I now know why some women quit their jobs and become stay at home moms!"

C.J. is Laila's first child with husband Curtis Conway, who has 3 children from a previous marriage. Look how cute C.J. is!

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Laila Ali's Baby Boy is a Knock Out!

Laila Ali's Baby Boy Is A Knock Out

trix — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:01:00 GMT

Laila Ali's little boy, Curtis Muhammad Conway Jr., is adorable.

Laila Ali and her husband Curtis Conway, introduced their little bundle of joy on the cover of OK! Look at that head of hair, totally cute.

Laila said that, “If all these other women have been able to do it, then so can I. I have never been afraid that parenthood was going to be too much for me.” She went on to say this experience has been the happiest “challenge” of her life.

Laila arranged a home birth but due to complications she delivered her healthy, 6 pound 8 ounce baby boy after 15 hours of labor.

Congrats Laila and Curtis!

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Laila Ali Welcomes New Champ

Whit Honea — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:13:00 GMT

In this corner, weighing in at 6.8lbs, please give a big FameCrawler welcome to Curtis Muhammad Conway, son of Laila Ali and her husband Curtis Conway.

According to Ali's website there was a bit of a scare: "Although mom and baby are both healthy and happy, there were some surprises during labor that altered Laila's birth plan."

That must have been a rough time, glad everyone is okay!

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Celebrity Bumps - Summer Edition

Sassy Smith — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:04:00 GMT

There's something in the water in celebrityland because there are a lot of actresses/singers/models who are expecting right now! It's a Tinseltown baby boom. Here a few summertime baby bumps....

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Gwen Stefani - she's due any second now - she was spotted heading into the hospital a few days ago but apparently not to give birth. Very soon though! This will be baby number two for her and husband Gavin Rossdale. Son Kingston is 2.

Minnie Driver - she's about ready to pop any time now as well! She's been seen out and about, doing some shopping, getting ready for her first child. Still no word on just who the baby daddy is.

Lisa Marie Presley - pregnant with her third AND fourth children - yup it's twins! The pretty 40-year-old daughter of the late Elvis Presley is expecting her first children with husband Michael Lockwood. She has two teens from a previous marriage. She recently bared her pregnant belly in Marie Claire magazine.

Ashlee Simpson - pregnant with her first child with Pete Wentz, due sometime in October. She's been seen sporting hippy headbands and flowy dresses. She does look great, I have to admit - well minus the headband please! She and Pete are rumored to be expecting a girl.

Naomi Watts - due with baby number two - she and Liev Schreiber have son Alexander, 1, and are expecting a girl. Watts likes to spend big bucks on diaper bags.

Gillian Anderson - she's expecting baby number 3, second with husband Mark Griffiths. Anderson has an 11-year-old daughter, Piper, with her ex and she and Mark have a son, Oscar, 20-months-old. Gillian is a lazy, eating, pregnant chick - she rocks.

Laila Ali - pregnant with her first child (husband Curtis Conway has 3 older children from a previous relationship), a boy, who they are planning to name Curtis Jr. She's due sometime in September and plans to have a homebirth.

Jen Garner - she and husband Ben Affleck have one of the cutest celebrity kids - daughter Violet. Violet, 2, will be a big sister in a few short months. Everyone under the sun has confirmed their second pregnancy even though Jennifer herself has made no announcement. Hopefully they'll have a boy this time!

See? Lots of celebrity bumps! And that's not all either - there's more celebs expecting as well - Amy Poehler, Luciana Barroso (Matt Damon's wife), Alessandra Ambrosio, Gina Lee Nolan, Alison Sweeney, Amy Jo Johnson, Jackie Sandler (Adam Sandler's wife), Caroline Rhea, Jenna Jameson, Rebecca Romijn, Charlotte Church, Erykah Badu (rumor so far), Amy Fisher and there's more still, but it's time to take my medication.

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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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Laila is in the Hood

trix — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:35:00 GMT

Laila Ali was glowing as she attended the Women of Achievement awards last Friday.

Laila Ali is 6 months pregnant and looks hot to trot. I bet she lays around in her pajamas too tired to take a shower, dreading the actual moment she has to get all dolled up and head out on the town. That's how I was (am).

I only have one question, why wasn't I invited to the Women of Achievement awards? I've achieved stuff.

Wow, I couldn't wear this now and here she is 6 months pregnant and looking fantastic.

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Hulk Gives Advice?

trix — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Laila Ali, who is six months pregnant, has recently recieved some parenting advice from co-host Hulk Hogan.

"Just teach them the right things, lead them the right way and then you have to give them the space to do their own thing," was his sage advice.

Too bad hindsight is 20/20, right Hulk?

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Five Hottest Pregnant Celebrities

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?

Maks Chmerkovskiy's Rejuvenating Effect on Mel B. and the Ladies of Dancing With The Stars

BadKitty — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:16:00 GMT

If you combined the voices of every saucy barwench in the history of film and television, you would wind up with Mel B, Gemini. And a lot of the time, she looks like a cockney wench. But you can see a change coming over her as she spends time on the set of Dancing With The Stars. With Maks Chmerkovskiy, Capricorn.

In this photo, catching her in costume before an appearance on the show, (little Angel Iris Murphy Brown is too sweet) Mel looks a bit cleaned up. The DWTS magic weight melting is starting to go into effect. Her makeup, while dramatic, doesn't scream, "Oi, whearz me tip, mate!" And she has a special dreamy look that the follows the ladies who live the dream of partnering with Maks.

First, here is Maks:

Nice ~~chest~~ smile!

Next check out the expression here on former "partner" Willa Ford, Capricorn.

Even Laila Ali, Capricorn, engaged at the time to former NFL player Curtis Conway, Capricorn, (he and Maks have the same birthday, January 13th!) was not immune:

Maks seems to have the same effect as one of those personal neck massagers from Sharper Image. From the photo evidence, that is.

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