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• Remembering Celine Dion: Good-Bye to My Pregnant Celebrity

  This is about Celine Dion. But please, bear with me. She ended her show in Las Vegas, said her good-byes and apparently cried a bit. All this Celine attention is taking me back. Remember when she was just so darn big? Way back in the “Titanic days.” We heard, time and again, her story: roraied in poverty in Quebec, voice of an angel, gets a manager as a young teen, and (this is where we all start to squirm) falls in love with said manager, career goes pretty well, sings hit theme ballad to hit cloying love story movie and for years – literally years – her big nasally voice played on a loop inside our heads, near, far, wherever we were? Remember? And some people loved her, they just loved her. Read this for a taste of that crazy. But this is not my good-bye to Celine Dion, because I never cared for her music or her voice or her uplifting life tale, rags to riches, all that. Never had a burning desire to see her show in Vegas. Ever. This isn’t about Celine the entertainer. This is about how I still give her bits of my attention, because we have a connection, me and Celine: Read More... Posted Dec 18 2007, 09:19 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, pregnant celebrity, celine dion, post-partum clothing, weight gain

• Keri Russell's Baby Talk

  One of Strollerderby's fave D-listers, Keri Russell, is talking about pregnancy and all those things that consume mothers-to-be in the final weeks before the baby arrives. While Russell will forever be known to zillions of fans simply as the loveably bumbly Felicity, she will soon also be known as Mama to a child who's gender she's chosen to not yet know. Russell says she's happy to be surprised at the birth but thinks partner Shane Deary secretly hopes their babe's a girl. On the off-chance Hollywood works differently than the Midwest (just in case), I have loads of yellow duckie newborn stuff I'm willing to loan her that are the standard gift of irritated baby shower invitees and my mother's friends who just could. not. understand why in this day and age you'd choose not to know the gender. I'm just saying, it's here if you need it, Keri. Russell's admissions of getting bloated and feeling out of breath, craving yogurt and freaking out over the responsibility of caring for a human being counter's our culture's expectation that being pregnant is all dreamy and idyllic. Oh no, she says, "that's just not real." And the parents in the house said, Amen, Felicity! Amen. Posted May 06 2007, 03:28 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: keri russell, pregnant celebrity, d-list celeb

• Elisabeth Hasselbeck to Produce Another Young Republican

  Amidst confetti and courtesy smiles, Elisabeth Hasslbeck, the co-host on The View who sits opposite Rosie O'Donnell on all things political, announced she's expecting a second child. She is mother to two-year old Grace Elisabeth and is reported to have long wanted to add to her family with New York Giants QB hubs Tim Hasselback.  What's creepy/predictable about the announcement is that Barbara Walters seemed most excited that the birth will take place in November, just in time for sweeps. And since the attention-starved ratings-hiker herself Rosie O'Donnell will soon leave the show, I imagine Babs fuhreaking out about who or what will bring in The Viewers.  I personally abandoned the show when the only interesting and non-nerves-grating woman (love you almost as much as Matt and Ann, Meredith) bailed on what seemed on all counts to be a sinking ship. Strangely, people kept tuning in to see Star's abrupt resignation (firing, "contract blunder," whatever"), a revolving door of guest co-hosts to fill her chair, Joy's supposed comic commentary and regular looks of complete disinterest, self-promotion after self-promotion for Barbara's slow-dying specials, O'Donnell's fourth grade rants and, of course, Hasselback's mini-soapboxes as scripted by the conservative Right. Dang it. Clearly, I know way too much about this show that I really can't even stand to flip past as I make my way over to Martha Stewart cooking up croissants with a bumbly Josh Duhamel.  Truth be told, I'll probably even read the write-up in Us Weekly when Hasselbeck is wheeled off in her green gown to give birth to baby #2. Don't worry, though, all this attention giving will be duly countered by a rising sense of self-hatred for semi-celeb gawking addiction. [photo credit: Heidi Gutman/ABC] Posted May 01 2007, 02:29 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with no comments Filed under: rosie o'donnell offends Asians, the view, pregnant celebrity, elisabeth hasselbeck, celebrity mothers

• Salma Hayek Engaged, Expecting

  Actress Salma Hayek, 40, announced today that she is expecting her first child and embarking on her first marriage.  The lucky guy is French millionaire François-Henri Pinault.  Salma is known for her curves, her sultry Mexican accent, and for her portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.  She is also a producer, and recurring guest star, on Ugly Betty.  Salma's new fiancé, Monsieur Pinault, 44, is the CEO of luxury goods firm PPR, which owns Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as a French department store and national music chain. His father, François, is a famous art collector, and the entire family is well known on the European and American fashion and art circuits.  Baby Hayek-Pinault will be well taken care of - the family fortune is estimated in excess of $7 billion. Congratulations - y felicitaciones! - to the happy couple! Posted Mar 09 2007, 07:38 PM by Alisyn with | with no comments Filed under: celebrity, salma hayek, pregnant celebrity