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(Almost) Like A Virgin: Happy 50th Birthday Madonna!

sweatpantsmom — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:10:00 GMT

Okay, maybe you can't even mention her in the same sentence as the word 'virgin', but I still say Madonna looks pretty good for a 50-year-old mother of three. The Material Girl celebrates her half-century mark today, and birthday tributes are all over the web.

MSNBC.com says the pop icon surpasses the Beatles in terms of her musical influence. (Although they quickly point out that it's her "impact on the course of pop music that bests the Fab Four, not her sociological importance, songwriting skills or recording innovations.")

People.com has a photo gallery of Madonna's looks over the years that makes me want to get out my torn stockings and rubber bracelets.

USmagazine.com shows us other actresses who have also recently celebrated the big 5-0. Some of them look as good as Madonna, and some of them look, uh, worse.

CNN.com even has an online poll titled, "Madonna Turns 50: Is She Better Than Ever?" Sorry, Madge, but the current results say 74% NO, and 26% YES. Better get Gwyneth and your other pals to log on and vote.

ET.com is reporting that the Birthday Girl and husband Guy Ritchie celebrated last night by attending a service at a Kabbalah center in England. Like A Prayer!

[photo: USmagazine.com]

BREAKING NEWS: Doctor Confirms to AP That Angelina Jolie Twins Are Here

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:22:00 GMT

Angelina Jolie's doctor confirmed to the Associated Press early Sunday that the actress had given birth to a boy and a girl. Dr. Michael Sussman confirmed rumors that have been running rampant all day; Jolie had given birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by cesarean section on Saturday night.

Sussman told the AP on Sunday morning that the boy weighed 5.03 pounds and the girl 5 pounds, and added that Jolie, the babies and Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt, "are doing marvelously well."

Congratulations to the entire Brangelina crew!

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Jamie Lynn: Giving Up Baby To Mom?

HerBadMother — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:24:00 GMT

Apparently, Jamie Lynn Spears is considering giving up her baby to be raised by her mother. Which, I don't know. I mean, this may be mean to say, but I'm not sure that there's tons of evidence that Lynne Spears is a dab hand at parenting. Especially when sources claim that her objective in taking the baby off her daughter's hands is to help young Jamie Lynn maintain her career. "Lynne is convinced that having a baby on her hip will not help Jamie Lynn's future in the business," said the source, who spoke to Us Magazine, "and she's expecting her daughter to pick up where she left off as soon as the baby is born."

I'm not sure that the truly maternal first concern here should be her teenager's career. I mean, look what teen career-obsession did to her other kid. Britney's gone so entirely off the rails that she isn't even within sight of the tracks anymore. So although it maybe seems prudent for a pregnant sixteen year-old to hand her child off to her mother for rearing, in this case I'm not so sure. Again, I don't know. Maybe it's better than the alternatives. I can't even speculate about what's best for these girls anymore.

God. It's almost impossible to write about the Spears clan without heaving big, tragic sighs.

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Casey Dumps Jamie Lynn; Demands Paternity Test

HerBadMother — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:58:00 GMT

Now, this story I find more believable than that Jamie-Lynn-and-Casey-Gettin'-Married rumor that I wrote about the other day. The most current rumor has it that young Master Aldridge has dumped the younger Spears girl, and is demanding a paternity test.

According to the latest issue of In Touch Weekly, Jamie Lynn is rumored to be carrying the child of an older TV producer. (This, I don't hesitate to point out, is supported by a story that Famecrawler reported weeks ago). The source of the info? Britney.

"He wants a paternity test," Britney told a Spears family friend, according to In Touch Weekly. "Casey doesn't want to be with her until he's sure that he's the father."

Okay, so Britney's not the most reliable of sources, given, you know, the drug use and the general mental health issues. But as I noted above, this is not the first time that this story has surfaced.

I'm betting that it's true, and that we're going to see a bigger scandal before we see a wedding. Stay tuned.

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Jamie Lynn Spears Getting Married?

HerBadMother — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:02:00 GMT

Entertainment Tonight Online is reporting that Jamie Lynn Spears is planning to marry boyfriend and babydaddy Casey Aldridge.

The ET story, which is based on an OK! Magazine report, says this:

Do the pregnant JAMIE LYNN SPEARS and her longtime boyfriend/father of her baby CASEY ALDRIDGE have wedding plans in the works? According to OK!, the young parents-to-be may be planning to walk down the aisle.

"They are fully committed to each other," Casey's great-uncle, Pastor ODUS JACKSON tells the magazine. "That's how love goes. Jamie Lynn can have anyone she wants, and Casey is very popular too. But they keep on finding each other, and that makes me hopeful for their future. He wants to propose to her and get married!"

Sources also tell OK! the pair have been inseparable since the pregnancy news broke last month. "Jamie technically still lives with her mama," a source says, "but she spends her free time with Casey."

OK! Magazine isn't always the most reliable source, but if ET has picked it up, there may be something to the story. Still, it flies in the face of these stories, which paint a slightly different - slightly murkier - picture of the young lovers' relationship. My guess? There ain't gonna be no weddin' bells.

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Jamie Lynn Spears' Pregnancy is "Normal"

sweatpantsmom — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Here in backwards Hollywood the idea of a 16-year old getting pregnant may have all of us doing Hail Marys, but in Jamie Lynn Spears' hometown of Kentwood, La, it's an everyday occurrence. “No one can understand why the media is making such a big deal over Jamie’s pregnancy,” local resident Mandy Knight told OK! Magazine. “That’s normal for people around here … her pregnancy really isn’t so shocking.”

Thanks, Mandy, for reminding the rest of America to never let their daughters visit Kentwood alone.

Jamie Lynn's hometown has also rallied around it's resident sperminator, Casey Aldridge. “We’re all so proud of him for doing the right thing,” says the town librarian, Cheryl Rape, oblivious to the irony of her name. "We all do wish him well."

And by 'well' they mean "try not to get your cousin pregnant next."

Jamie Lynn Spears' Baby Daddy Is Generous With His Sperm

sweatpantsmom — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:35:00 GMT

Casey Aldridge and Jamie Lynn Spears may have met at church, but she isn't the only girl he's known in the Biblical sense. According to the National Enquirer, Aldridge not only was dating another woman days before Spears' pregnancy announcement, but reportedly informed the "Zoe 101" star this past spring that he had gotten another girl pregnant. Oops. he did it again.

A close friend reveals that after Aldridge confessed to getting the other unnamed woman pregnant, “Jamie Lynn was devastated. She swore Casey out of her life forever." But according to the friend, two weeks before the other woman miscarried Spears was back with Aldridge after he promised never to do it again. That is, unless some other blonde hottie with a killer bod and nice rack sat in his lap in which case all promises were null and void.

And there's more! Two months before getting that girl pregnant Aldridge cheated on Spears with yet another woman, Whitney Seals of Magnolia, Miss. and is reportedly still dating her. I'm disappointed. I say if you can't trust a philandering, 19-year old, unemployed pipe-fitter, who can you trust?

[photo: MSNBC.com]