Knocked Up Celebs

Kevin Federline and his two boys, Sean and Jayden, are on the cover of People that hits new stands on Friday. He is talking about the last five years of his life with ex-wife, Britney Spears. Now that Britney is getting back on track Kevin is sharing their new life and routines with the magazine. Here are some highlights of the interview…

What are your happiest memories of the marriage? Well, getting married. I never thought that I would get married but it wound up happening. That was a really, really, happy, exciting moment. I pretty much realized that I was giving my life to her, and I was doing it without question.

What went wrong? It’s hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything. For me, I’d become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important … I mean, we were having complications. I didn’t give her an ultimatum, but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn’t even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided.

A lot of people assumed you fought for custody of the kids because of money. My first question to [my lawyer] was, “Am I ever going to be able to see my children?” I told him that I would spend every last dime that I had to make sure that my children are okay. That’s all that mattered. I didn’t know how much power Britney had. That really scared me.

How did you react in January when Britney locked herself in the bathroom with Jayden and was later taken to the hospital on a gurney? That whole night is a blur. You want to talk about one of my lowest points of depression, that was probably one of them. I was very, very worried for her ’cause I care about her. That’s the mother of my children. Just because I’m not in love with her doesn’t mean that I don’t love her. I’m definitely rooting for her. There’s nothing more that I want than for her to be in the best health and doing what she loves to do.

Are things getting better? Oh, man, it’s totally turning around. It works out that [the kids] get to see her. There’s structure over there, there’s structure at my house. We’re trying to keep the same type of schedule. It doesn’t have to be completely perfect, but the foundation is there.

I am so happy for the four of them. I think that there is nothing that Britney deserves more than support from Kevin.

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Brad Pitt had an interview with Ann Curry to talk about his Make It Right Foundation project in New Orleans that aired this morning. He also talked about his family. Here are some highlights..

On talking about the kids: “I just walk away feeling bad about it when I do. [What I do say] seems to get cheapened somehow as it goes through the filter and the airwaves. I just want to keep it close to the chest.”

On how he is proud of his family: “I’m really proud of this family. I look at my sons and daughters. … I feel rich being around them. Each one offers so much to the mix.”

On the paps: “I have no respect for these people. I do not like them. They should not be able to follow kids like this.”

On his view of marrying partner, Angelina Jolie: “If we feel it’s important to our kids, we would [get married].”

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Britney Spears is the January 2009 cover girl for Glamour magazine. And inside the magazine she talks about her career, how she is feeling and most of all about her boys. Here are some highlights…

On the first thing she does when she gets up: “I fix breakfast for my kids when they’re here. And then we’ll go for walks. During the day I spend most of the time with my children. At night is when I go to work.”

On what she plans to teach her boys about treating women: “Hopefully they will respect me by the way I carry myself, and in doing that, they will know how to respect other women.”

On where she wants to be in 5 or 10 years: “I would love to have a lot of albums under my belt. And a couple of movies….In five years I would like to be married and have a father figure for my kids, someone who is a provider and can be really stable.”

I think Britney’s on the right track. I’m glad to see her happy again with her boys.

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Brooke Shields is on the cover of the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Cookie magazine with her two daughters, Rowan and Grier. Inside she talks about raising her two children, not sleeping and My Little Pony marathons.

On balancing Lipstick Jungle and being a mom: “I had this trainer once who said to always do two out of the three: eat well, rest, and exercise. These days it’s more like ‘Which one out of the three can I do?’”

On what she learnt about from her relationship with her mom: “I feel like there’s a reason I had girls. My mom and I were very, very, very close, but we had no separation. My daughters are teaching me that it’s okay to have boundaries, that they want them.”

On a recent epiphany she had while in her daughter’s school chapel: “I watched the children file in quietly. I was in a seat another mom had saved for me – like in high school! – and Rowan’s eyes lit up when she saw me sneaking a wave. She kept checking for me. I was just another mom sharing the experience and I thought, Wow, it took having a child for me to feel like I belong, that I’m normal. It was pretty profound.”

The issue will available on news stands December 2.

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Kate Winslet is a busy girl, she has two new movies coming out, Revolutionary Road and The Reader. I’m excited to see The Reader since I read the book. Kate is also married to Sam Mendes, and has two kids, Mia Honey, 8, and Joe Alfie, 4. She recently sat down with Parade magazine and talked about her own childhood and her best advice for her children.

On wanting a ‘normal’ life for her children: “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me. I also think that those are the things that children need in order to become normal kids. I don’t want them to feel that they are any different because of my job or Sam’s job.”

On dining out with their kids: “We like them to see those things as a treat, as they should be—and still are to me, actually. We were having lunch, and I was having a glass of wine and eating bread and putting butter on the bread, and I turned to Sam and said, ‘I am just so happy!’”

On her own childhood: “We never had any money. I really grew up in a world of struggling actors who were doing it because they loved it. We were all always told, ‘OK, if this is really something you want to do, that’s fine. Just know it’s going to be hard. It was always, ‘You might not get it. Go for it. You’ve nothing to lose. Just work hard and be yourself.’ That was the main thing we were always told. ‘Be yourself. Don’t try to be like the girl who is ahead of you in the line. Be yourself.’”

On the best advice she gives to her own children: “‘Be yourself—that’s all you need to be. Why do you want to be like that person? Be you. Be you.’”

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Debra Messing is the cover girl for Shape magazine’s January 2009 issue. Inside the issue she talks about what it was like to be constantly scrutinized for her weight after she had her son, Roman, in 2004.

“It was written about in the tabloids a lot. On one page it showed all the actresses who got skinny in six weeks or less, and on the other page was me! I was so depressed and frustrated.”

Losing the baby weight is so hard and it’s so unfair when people judge other’s for it. So many stars pressure themselves to lose it all right a way and then miss spending time with their new baby.

Debra tried using a personal trainer but said it exhausted her way too much. So instead she cut back on what she was eating and eased up on the personal trainer. Now after three years and 42 pounds later, she has pre-baby figure back.

“Ultimately I’m very proud of how I dropped the weight because I think it was the healthy approach. I’ve finally taken ownership of my body.”

Congratulations goes out to Debra. It’s something I still struggle with daily and I had my first baby almost thirteen years ago.

Photo Source: Shape

Right now, Reese Witherspoon is busy promoting her new movie, Four Christmases, a comedy who she also stars with Vince Vaughn in . I saw the trailer on tv the other day and it looks really funny. Reese took some time out of her busy schedule and talked to Parade about her life, children and marrying again. Here are some highlights of the interview:

On how she and ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe, co-parent their two children, Ava and Deacon: “My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We’re very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We’re on the same page that way. When we’re with our children, we’re very good about checking ourselves.”

On the values she hopes to teach her children: “I’m teaching the children what we were taught growing up—a real set of rules, discipline, and love. Children thrive with a sense of structure, and they’re frightened without it. The ways you behave, how you speak to other people—those things don’t leave you.”

On her worries about her children’s safety: “After my second baby, I was scared. It’s hard to protect your babies from the press and all the people out there wanting a part of you. It made me hibernate a little bit more. I got very ‘Mama Bear’ and protective. You give birth, and worry and guilt come with it. It’s a natural part of being a parent. But for me, the most difficult part is seeing my children being followed and harassed. They’ve been treated terribly. They were shouted at in their Halloween costumes, photographers screaming, ‘You don’t look scared!’ We used to take our daughter to a wonderful school, and she was so harassed that we had to take her out. I hope not to live in this place forever.”

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Angelina Jolie has some pretty awesome magazine covers this month. She seems to be covering every magazine in December. In this December 2008 issue of Madame Figaro she talks about family and how it’s her dream to raise her children. Here are some highlights of the interview…

On fulfilling all her dreams:I have only one left, the most beautiful: raise my children.
I want to be there when they have a nightmare at night to comfort their fears. My mother, who passed away, she was there all the time for me. It was my closest, my most loyal friend, we told each other everything, I miss her desperately.

On what she wants to teach her children: I want them to learn altruism. It took me a while to understand that I was not the center of the world. In Los Angeles, where I grew up, I had no sense of human misery, I couldn’t get out of my own ego. Now, I always place others before me. I also want them feel at ease everywhere as well as a Manhattan as Addis Ababa.

She is for sure one of the most elegant and humble celebrities out there.

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Rebecca Romijn is the cover girl for Page Six magazine this week. She looks so radiant! She talks about her twin girls on the way, fertility drugs and how awesome her husband, Jerry O’Connell, is. Here is some highlights of the interview…

On using medical intervention to get pregnant: “We did not do IVF… A year ago, we tried [the fertility drug] Clomid for a couple of months unsuccessfully. But by the second month, I was like, ‘Ahhh! I hate this!’ I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it’s crazy-making.”

On her body during pregnancy: “I can’t move anymore…I’m a beached whale! …I have not been without a bra this entire pregnancy. I refuse. I’m not taking any chances. I’m determined to keep the puppies up!”

On speculation that the cause of her 2004 divorce was that she did not want children: “There is absolutely no truth to that. That [story] was completely made up. I desperately wanted kids. I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I’ve always dreamed about decorating my baby’s nursery.”

On husband Jerry O’Connell’s fathering skills: “I knew early on he would be a fantastic dad. He’s a pragmatic, smart, savvy, enthusiastic person. He really lives his life with tremendous integrity, and he’s a healthy person in every single way.”

It’s also her birthday today (Thursday), so Happy Birthday Rebecca!

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Elizabeth Hurley and her son, Damian, cover the latest issue of HELLO! magazine where she opens up abouther special bond with the country, her plans to become a working farmer and how she and husband, Arun, would love a baby of their own together.

“I love being Mrs Nayar,” she adds, in the intimate interview. “Our lives are astonishingly chaotic but I live in the hope of things calming down.”

Elizabeth is looking so happy and radiant. I’m glad she’s finally happy.

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