Strollerderby : baby bump

Guess the Belly Bumps

SunnyChanel — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Can you name the baby bump? Here are six different baby bumps of the knocked up and famous.
And if you can't guess, the answers are below.

Baby Bump A

Baby Bump B

Baby Bump C

Baby Bump D

Baby Bump E

Baby Bump F

THE ANSWERS

Baby Bump A = Gwen Stefani

Baby Bump B = Angelina Jolie

Baby Bump C = Octomom!

Baby Bump D = Katie Holmes

Baby Bump E = Jennifer Garner

Baby Bump F = M.I.A

Should You Take Your Bump on a Date?

Madeline Holler — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:27:00 GMT

I'm trying to figure out why the book Postcards From Your Bump: A Chick's Guide to Getting to Know the Baby in Your Belly bothers me so much. Is it the "duh!" factor? Of course your child's personality is forming in utero and so what's on the inside is what you get on the outside.

Or is it the whole "bonding" thing in the first place. I sometimes wonder if we've overblown the notion of bonding and that some of us don't even recognize having actually bonded with our newborns. (I mean, where was the confetti drop? No one sounded the siren! Who issues the official certificate declaring mother and child "bonded"?)

Or maybe it's this piece of advice: take your bump on a date. (Should you bring flowers?)

Here's what the authors, Ame Mahler Beanland and Emily Miles Terry, tell VOANews.com:

"Take a little time to appreciate this process," Terry [said].

Good advice, sure. But that baby bump date? The writers don't mean dinner and a movie. Instead, you're supposed to take the Bump to the playground and explore places you'll eventually want to take the world-side kicking and screaming bundle of joy.

Let me be your 20-20 vision, bump daters. You'll love your baby. You'll figure out the playgrounds. So, no zoos. No pre-kid explorations. Take your Bump to a bar, a fancy restaurant, a dirty movie and a staff meeting. Read People magazine on a flight. Let your partner play with your boobs! Take a nap. Oh, for God's sake, take your bump on a nap!

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Photo: Amazon.com

When a Sitcom Actress Gets Pregnant

JeanneSager — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:22:00 GMT

The problem with hit television shows for the actors can be trying to live their lives around their TV schedule. And for actresses, that means trying to make sure their pregnancies don't intervene with shooting.

But CBS's How I Met Your Mother has taken the pregnancies of two of its main actresses (Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders) in stride. They worked around the burgeoning bellies - as most sitcoms do these days - and they played off of them.

In the past, TV shows have taken one of two tacks. They've completely hidden women's growing bellies by shooting from the chest up, making their characters do a lot more sitting or having them tote large handbags or stand behind counters - like Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz. Or they've written pregnancy into the show - most famously when Lucille Ball was expecting her second child with co-star and husband Desi Arnaz, and suddenly their characters on I Love Lucy, the Ricardos, were expecting too. More recently, Without a Trace's Poppy Montgomery had a similar go as TV mom-to-be and pregnant chick, and the baby's daddy was the same onscreen and off.

The folks on How I Met Your Mother have taken another road entirely. They've made catching sight of the actresses' bellies a sight gag. When Hannigan's character took part in an eating contest, she lept up to show off her overextended tummy - supposedly from all that extra food . . . but not really. Other times, they've had her stand near a globe or rack of basketballs, the round shapes mimicking her real stomach.

The show's executive producer has said they figured they might as well play up the pregnancies for extra laughs, and it's been working.

I do tend to notice more when an actress seems to be spending a lot of time hiding behind baskets of fruit or sitting at a desk, even those whose pregnancies I missed hearing about in the news (or on Famecrawler!). It's a goofy game, but I love trying to catch the director out, see if they miss a second of covering the bump.

Do you notice or do most of your favorite stars do a pretty good job of keeping their pregnancy off camera?

Image: Chicago Tribune

Has Our Baby Bump Obession Gone Too Far?

SunnyChanel — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:00 GMT

When you had your most recent child were you thinking to yourself “wow, all of a sudden I’m noticing that our culture is really into babies” or do you think that this onslaught of the obsession with all things baby is just a new American fascination? Five years ago would a glossy tabloid do a “who’s cuter” cover with the daughters of Christie Brinky and Cindy Crawford? I think not.

Along with things like the unstopping scrutiny of what the rich and famous’s offspring wears, the media also is also obsessed with these nubile creatures while they are still in utero with the newly popular baby bump watch.

Lenore Skenazy from the The New York Sun (yeah, I don’t read that either…thanks for doing the dirty work for me Jezebel!), did a story called Our Baby Bump Obsession. The glossies (US Weekly, People, Life & Style, Star etc) see as “nine whole months of pure tabloid gold”. Skenazy mentions that "It is an event with the potential to carry a lot of stories — the bump, the birth, the name, the baby shower — as opposed to a one-time DUI," a psychotherapist, Rebecca Roy-Jarboe, said. And since we're so involved with celebrities' lives already, their babies are almost "our babies," she said. Nine months of content, not a bad way to mine those stories. And in every issue of every magazine, every day, every week and every month there seems to be a constant stream of baby bumps and general babyness.

But babies aren’t all hugs, kisses and cute as kittens to each and everyone of us. In Jezebel’s “I Am F*cking Sick & Tired of Baby Bumps” Dodai wrote “all women are supposed to have BABY FEVER. I hate, HATE the predisposed notion that the lack of a Y chromosome means I must involuntarily drool at the sight of an infant. Cute babies are cute, but some of them look like undone suckling pigs that need to go back in the oven.”

She continues to say “But the tabloids seem to think we all have BABY FEVER, that no woman is immune, that if you have ovaries then you're gonna want to hear about someone else's. I'm not into babies! Hopefully I would be, if they were mine, but they're not! They belong to rich people I have never met. And the only thing worse than being expected to give a crap about a random kid is giving a crap about a random maybe-possibly pregnant woman!”
(click here to check out her whole rant)

I actually love a good baby bump watch, but it has gone to the extreme. Any woman of child bearing age who happens to let an oversized bag swing in front of her belly, wears one of those popular trapeze tops, or just had too much lasagna at lunch, well then she is immediately put on the baby watch list.

So are we obsessed?

via Jezebe

and New York Sun

Best of FameCrawler: Week of July 25th

Whit Honea — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Lindsay Lohan's (Fake) Baby Bump

Jen Chaney — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:33:00 GMT

Lindsay Lohan is pregnant ... with a prosthetic belly!

The actress was photographed in L.A. last week sporting what appeared to be a baby bump. Turns out she was just shooting a movie in which she plays a woman pretending to be pregnant

Let me get this straight: Lohan was pretending to be pregnant in order to play a woman pretending she's pregnant? Ladies and gentlemen, that's acting.

Rumors about being with child would be a change of pace for Lohan, who recently has spent more time dealing with gossip about her alleged lesbian relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson. My theory about all of that? Lohan is really heterosexual, but traded places with a gay woman in a "Freaky Friday"-style mix-up. My back-up theory? Three words: gay identical twin.

Photo: JFX/Retna Pictures Via Daily Mail

Best of FameCrawler: Week of May 16th

Whit Honea — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Claudia Schiffer Topless!

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Survivor Finale: Baby Scandal!

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Best of FameCrawler: Week of April 18

Whit Honea — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Rob Lowe's Former Nanny Speaks Out

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Best of FameCrawler: Week of April 11

Whit Honea — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Beyonce Bump Buzz

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Tom Cruise: Leaving Katie, Taking Suri?

Heather Mills Nude Pics Finally Surface

Jamie Lynn Spears Goes Postal