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Sexy Jennifer Ellison: Marriage & Babies!

Sassy Smith — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:03:00 GMT

Actress, Jennifer Ellison, 25, is tying the knot! The sexy blonde from England, who has been dating Robbie Tickle, 29, for seven months, is ready to settle down - and that includes making babies!

Ellison tells Closer mag that she and Robbie will have a small, intimate ceremony. "Me and Rob haven't been together long, but when you fall in love with someone, you don't need to wait five years to take it to the next level.

"We'll get married nexy year - but it won't be a big celeb wedding, I only want an intimate affair with family and friends."

And Jennifer wants a family with her semi-pro boxer man. "I'd love children. I want three, but I'm busy with work so it's on hold."

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FIRST LOOK: Jessica Alba In Genlux Dishes On Those Hot 100 Lists

sweatpantsmom — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:05:00 GMT

I recently interviewed Jessica Alba for the current issue of Genlux Magazine. In between bites of brussel sprouts and while ignoring my pleas to autograph my box set of Dark Angel, she dished on everything from Christina Applegate to being on all those lists:

Early fashion influences?

“I loved Christina Applegate in ‘Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead!’ She was seventeen and working in fashion. I really loved her in that movie.”

On her upcoming (comedic!) role opposite Mike Myers in "The Love Guru" and how she brought her own interest in Eastern philosophy to the table:

“I dabbled in Eastern spirituality – it totally makes sense to me. Eastern religion makes you directly responsible for your actions. It feels like more of a direct path.”

On being at the top of Maxim’s Hot 100 list and FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World:

“I never put myself in those magazines, they put me in them. I never really cared about it, to be honest.”

But Alba's much more enthusiastic about her Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress:

“I love kids! I’ve always loved kids, and [I’ve chosen] to be in movies like “Fantastic Four” where [I’m] playing a superhero, and I get to become that for them. It’s great to be this iconic figure that’s not Barbie, or Bratz, but strong and opinionated and sensitive and maternal.”

Photos: Giuliano Bekor

Source: Genlux Magazine

Halle Berry: Bah Humbug!

Karen — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:03:00 GMT

Halle Berry is looking a little glum while doing some last minute Christmas shopping the other day. I wonder if she is starting to crave having her body back. She sure is a stylin' Mama though! Would you have attempted those boots while pregnant?

Maxim's List of Nine Hottest Pregnant Women

sweatpantsmom — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:45:00 GMT

Remember Maxim's last list? Well the Neanderthals over there have taken a break from smashing beer cans into their foreheads by compiling yet another one, The 9 Hottest Pregnant Women, Ever. Hey - they left off Britney.

Unfortunately I have to admit I actually agree with their picks this time, since Halle Berry takes the first spot, she of the incandescent glow and wonder boobs. Christina Aguilera and Heidi Klum round out the top three. I'm thinking this is satisfying both Maxim's MILF and breastfeeding fantasies in one shot. I'm just waiting for their 6 Women We'd Most Like To Be Diapered By list to come out.

[photo: Maxim.com]

To Hell With The 'Sexy' Lists: Who's A Good Celebrity Mom?

HerBadMother — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:23:00 GMT

I have an idea for a new list. It will be an antidote to all of the superficial and misogynistic lists that currently get all of the press, and it will make everyone feel better. Cookie Magazine or whomever could publish it, and we could all debate who should be on it: Loveliest Celebrity Moms Ever.

Christy Turlington, who is featured in this month's Cookie, would certainly have to be on it, because a) she is jaw-droppingly gorgeous in the most unaffected and unenhanced way, and b) she radiates good-heartedness and save-the-worldishness and makes me want to do yoga, maybe, if I could ever get off my ass. Also, she invented the world's best yoga-wear, which - quite apart from good for yoga, which I wouldn't know - is the very best garb for post-partum bodies and bodies that can't be bothered to iron stuff when they're exhausted from caring for babies.

I would also put Jennifer Garner on that list, because every picture ever taken of her and her daughter is the very image of motherly love and childish joy and also have you seen her dimples? (That I have a massive girl-crush on her and want her to join my Mommy-and-Me group has not biased me in any way on this issue.) Who else? Angelina, maybe, for adopting all of those children and very possibly saving their lives - recent controversies over the terms of those adoptions don't change the fact that she is making a home for children who would otherwise likely not have any - though she looks like she would cut you if you ever dared criticize her, which isn't a lovely characteristic, but I'll reserve judgment on that. Maggie Gyllenhaal, for breastfeeding publicly, and for being unremittingly cool. Jamie Lee Curtis, for remaining insistently consistent in promoting healthy body image for girls. Julia Roberts and Jodie Foster, for putting family life before their own celebrity. Salma Hayek, for being breathtaking (superficial, I know, but still.) Sarah Jessica Parker, because she proves that sexiness isn't the be-all and end-all of loveliness, in motherhood or in womanhood generally. I could on and on.

I would prefer that it not be a ranked list, because true loveliness defies ranking, but I'd understand if some sales-minded editor insisted upon such ranking. It would have to be a celebrity-specific list, otherwise it would be nearly infinite (the stock of motherly loveliness in the world being itself almost infinite), and - however sadly - not particularly newsworthy. Obviously, there'd be some notable exclusions - Britney, of course, and likely Posh (just not lovely, in my books. She snarls), among a great many others - which is not to say that those women are excluded from the possibility of loveliness as mothers, just that, at present time, they seem to have other, less-lovely concerns. There would, however, not be an 'Unlovely Moms' list, because unecessary meanness is just not lovely.

I'm not quite certain of how I'm defining 'lovely' here; I just think that I know it when I see it (and in any case, who knows how to define 'sexy' or 'hot', either? Or 'unsexy' for that matter?) And that it's a more precious commodity that 'sexiness' or 'hotness' or whatever. And that we should celebrate it. For a change.

Who would you put on the list? Who would you exclude?

Buffy Having A Baby

HerBadMother — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:23:00 GMT

It just doesn't get more exciting than this for a Buffy The Vampire Slayer-fangirl-turned-gossip-writer. Sarah Michelle Gellar knocked up!

Well, actually, it would get more exciting if we were living in an alternate, parallel, Sunnydale universe and it was actually Angel that had impregnated Buffy. Even a Spike-spermination would be pretty exciting. Disturbing too, of course, because, you know, vampire babies are maybe a bit freaky, but still. Cool!

Sadly, neither the real world story nor the alternate parallel universe story are true. That Buffy/Babies headline? Sarah Michelle Gellar was just discussing babies recently, with Maxim magazine - which has named her Woman Of The Year - to say that she wasn't quite ready for them. Which is really just a pisser of a misleading story, really - and I fully acknowledge that this post is just such an example of a pissy story, and I apologize for that - because I don't really care if Sarah Michelle Gellar isn't quite ready for children. I want to hear that she's pregnant, dammit, like everybody else - or coming back to star in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the TV series or a movie. You know, news.

But we should know better than to expect pregnancy news from Maxim. And would they ever make a mom or an expectant mom 'Woman Of The Year'? Doubtful, after the mom-razing that they did with their Unsexiest Women list. Buffy should kick their evil asses. (Now there's a dream headline: 'Expectant Buffy Slays Maxim Editors For Crimes Against Mommies.' Someone get Joss Whedon on the phone.)

Source: People.com

Britney Spears Would Like an Apology From Maxim; In Other News, Still No Sign of Hell Freezing Over

sweatpantsmom — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:25:00 GMT

So the story is that Britney Spears had no idea she was on Maxim's list of unsexiest women, and almost crashed a party that the magazine was hosting on Tuesday night at Opera nightclub. In order to avoid an awkward situation once Britney was inside the club, her friends informed her of her inclusion in the group that includes Sarah Jessica Parker and Madonna, and the pop star was shocked that such a list even existed. I hear she threatened to send in her parenting coach to kick the editor's ass, but when that didn't work she decided to demand an apology from Maxim instead.

Seeing as the mean-spirited list was meant to incite and was obviously written by a bunch of ugly lonely men with small penises, I don't see any apologies, private or public coming Britney's way. I think her best bet is to stop trying to crash parties and concentrate on her mothering skills. Otherwise, she'll definitely be in the running to make another list: Worst Parent of 2007. Move over Alec Baldwin!

[photo: People.com]

Sarah Jessica Parker Laughs Off "Unsexiest Woman Alive" Title

Karen — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:11:00 GMT

Last month Maxim lost my subscription by writing an article that got a ton of press: they named what they think are the 5 Unsexiest Women Alive. We at Famecrawler sure thought it was mean as hell but it didn't seem to faze the top condenter.

Well Maxim, it seems Sarah Jessica Parker didn't get wrinkled over your stupid and degrading article. I, for one, LOVE her for it: "What they don't know is that one day I'll wake up fat. But I'll still be happy, just like I am now. I believe in the old 'sticks and stones' philosophy, so frankly their words don't come close to hurting. And it does not bother me in the least if people don't think I'm sexy. "I don't think I am, either."

To me, there's nothing sexier than a person, male or female, who is comfortable in their own skin. Not that you asked, but I think SJP is a hot mom, totally, and your comments over here tell me I'm not alone.

Ferris Bueller's Little Superman

HerBadMother — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:04:00 GMT

This is, like, waaay past the Halloween-interest-post expiry date, but still: who doesn't want to share the superlative cuteness of the offspring of Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker?

Whatever folks might say about SJP's sex appeal or ~~Ferris's~~ Matthew's (sorry; he's eternally Ferris to me) new movie, there's no arguing with their ability to produce gorgeous children.

Who's the chick with the tatts and the ripped jeans, though? The nanny? What's she dressed up as? Mary Poppins Gone Grunge?

Republicans To Maxim Magazine: Sarah Jessica Parker Is Sexy, Dammit!

HerBadMother — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:32:00 GMT

It's not often that I find myself in agreement with Republicans, but I'm fully prepared to set aside my biases when someone's just, you know, right. Republican-American Magazine is saying that Maxim Magazine is cheap, dirty and misogynistic for comparing Sarah Jessica Parker to a horse, and I gotta admit: they've got a point.

In response to Maxim's recent 'Unsexiest Women' feature, a writer at the Republican rag had this to say about that magazine's brutal skewering of SJP and a handful of other female celebrities, most of them moms:

"To see the exquisiteness of Sarah Jessica Parker and the beauty of her nontraditional face? Well, that takes a degree of nuance and maturity that these guys obviously lack. In its place, they exhibit an abundance of misogyny, a quality that remains all too pervasive in the misguided name of wit.

It's one thing to say some celebrity committed a fashion faux-pas, or had their hairstyle askew — I've had my share of bad hair days, and off-kilter outfits. And as a journalist, I recognize the importance of brutal reality. If someone is pudgy, and it's pertinent, well, it's going in print.

But creating a magazine feature for the sole purpose of tearing women apart? Forget funny, that's just plain mean.

Part of me wants to propose making the editor who let this idea come to fruition pose in his skivvies for the next magazine cover. Let women pick his appearance apart, one freckle and errant fat cell at a time. But I don't want to sink to their level."

That last bit is where she loses me. I'd luuuurve to see a Republican magazine sink to that level. They could do features on the general skeevishnesh of the Maxim editors, and that guy who runs American Apparel, and - oooh, this would be good - Perez Hilton for scrawling 'Bad Mom' and 'Fatty' all over pictures of Britney Spears. I'd pay cash money for that. And maybe even say more nice things about Republicans.

I'm still not going to forgive them for Ann Coulter, though.

Ferris Bueller Loves Jessica Rabbit

HerBadMother — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:03:00 GMT

And not just for her body, though I'm sure that helps.

Matthew Broderick - who plays an animated bee in Jerry Seinfeld's upcoming Bee Movie - told Redbook.com recently that the cartoon character he would most compare his wife to would be Jessica Rabbit. Maxim Magazine would probably say Olive Oyl, but we hate Maxim now because they're misogynistic haters, so never mind what they would say. ~~Ferris~~ Matthew has a point: they don't come much more spectacularly built that Sarah Jessica Parker. Shame that he only gets to be a bee, though. That cartoon sex would be kinda tricky between a rabbit and a bee. And the offsrping would be kinda weird. Good thing they had kid pre-animation.

Maxim Unveils "Unsexiest Women" List: Sarah Jessica Parker Leads Madonna And Britney In Fug

HerBadMother — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:33:00 GMT

Maxim Magazine has just named Sarah Jessica Parker as the Unsexiest Woman Alive, and they weren't exactly, um, nice about it:

"How the hell did this Barbaro-faced broad manage to be the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women and still star on a show with 'sex' in the title?" they said. "Pull your skirt down, Secretariat, we´d rather ride Chris Noth."

Ouch, ouch, ouch. That's mean. Though, truth be told, I've never understood why people think she's hot. I don't think she's fug - "Barbaro-faced" is way harsh - but I certainly don't see oodles of sex appeal there. Ferris Bueller could have done better, I think. What ever happened to Sloane? She was hot.

Moms, sadly, were over-represented on Maxim's top five Unsexiest Women list: Madonna clocked in at number four ("with a mug that looks Euro-sealed to her skull") and Britney rounded out the top five in fifth place ("less than five years ago, Britney had a python wrapped around her well-toned torso onstage at the VMAs. Since then, she´s lost the ability to perform, but gained two kids, two useless ex-husbands, and about 23 pounds of Funyun pudge.") Amy Winehouse (they've got a point here; she needs detox and a good scrub-down) and Sandra Oh (I protest!) came in at numbers two and three.

Too mean, I think, even for me. What do you think?