Knocked Up Celebs

Niki Taylor and her husband, Burney Lamar, were trying for 18 months to get pregnant, and nothing was working.

“Every month it wasn’t happening, I was feeling more frantic. I needed to stop thinking about it — everybody was telling me this, including my doctor. I was so frustrated and worried.”

After another round of tests they were encouraged to keep trying and not use drugs to help them.

“I just decided, ‘Whatever,’” the model says. “Clomid was going to be the next thing we tried, in a year. I talked about it with [my manager] and she said, ‘Women were made to have babies. You are still producing eggs. You need to relax. Everything has checked out.’”

I know that I was told I would never get pregnant again and when I relaxed, that is when I got pregnant. Niki did the same thing…she started eating and sleeping better. And then she was able to reach for the pregnancy test. Then she found out she was pregnant!

Niki is due at the end of March with a baby girl and the couple couldn’t be happier. There could be complications in the delivery because of the accident she suffered in 2001. Doctors needed to rebuild “her back by implanting two steel rods to hold her spine together.” So between the two rods being right where she would need an epidural and the scar tissue on her abdomen the doctors might have troubles taking the baby out if a C-section is needed. Niki is confident and optimistic that everything will run smoothly.

“You know what? I had the worst pain I could imagine after the accident and surgeries,” she says. “I can do natural childbirth! So many people have been encouraging me … and I’m feeling really strong and optimistic about it.”

But, until the baby comes she’s enjoying getting ready for her arrival. That’s always the fun part!

“I am just really enjoying getting ready for the baby we have wanted so much,” she says. “I am a very blessed girl.”

I can’t wait to see that cute baby girl.

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Before Jodie Sweetin separated from her husband, Cody Herpin, she did an interview with Baby Couture about their 8-month old daughter, Zoie. Jodie said that Zoie is “the most important thing in our lives.” You can just see the joy in her eyes on this holiday issue of the magazine. Here are some highlights of the interview…

On how she feels about her adoptive parents: “I know [my parents] love me no matter what, and that is something that I hope Zoie will always know.”

On what baby Zoie is doing right now: “Well, she is currently finding her voice and learning to squeal. so when she gets really excited about something, or when Cody or I walk into the room, she gets the biggest smile on her face and just lets out this super high-pitched squeal. But it’s the cutest thing, because she’s so happy.”

On disciplining Zoie: “I have a feeling mom will be the spoiler — I hate to see that little lip and those tears!”

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Brad Pitt is a family man, you can tell that by his devotion to partner, Angelina Jolie, and six kids. He recently sat down with Rolling Stone and shared about his life as a kid, his future and his family. Here are some highlights of the interview:

On getting help from his kids to use his iPod: “I normally need my kids to do this. They’re so beyond me in technology, it’s hard to keep up. Our seven-year-old was searching the word ‘weapons’ on Google the other day and ended up on some white-supremacist site. I’m sure now we’re on all kinds of watch lists.”

On his hopes for the future: “I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, more and more, it’s about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.”

On if he went to church every Sunday as a child: “Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you could be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental. This Prop. 8 thing just drives me mental.”

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The first pictures of Ricky Martin‘s 4 month old twins, Valentino and Matteo, are featured in this week’s issue of People magazine. In the issue Ricky talks about his decision to have the boys and how he doesn’t have a nanny! Here are some highlights from the interview.

On this time of his life: I’m so happy! Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life.

On being a hands on father: I don’t have a nanny. I’m doing this on my own because I don’t want to miss a moment. I have a personal assistant who helps me, someone who takes care of me while I’m taking care of them, but I’m the one who changes the diapers, the one that feeds them, the one that bathes them, the one that puts them to sleep. For any parent, the first couple of months tend to get a little bit intense.

On choosing being a father and getting a surrogate: Adoption was one option, but it’s complicated and can take a long time. Surrogacy was an intriguing and faster option. I thought, ‘I’m going to jump into this with no fear.’

On  Valentino’s and Matteo’s personalities: Valentino loves to sleep. I call him ‘Mr. Peace and Love’ because he’s so chill and serene. Matteo is more alert and active. He was up at 3 a.m. the other night and just hanging!

On Ricky’s philosophy on raising his sons: I love to read books to my sons and tell them stories. I play music for them so they develop their own personalities. I want to give them information and raise them with honesty and love, and give them self-esteem and a lot of acceptance.

You can catch the rest of the interview and more pictures in the the issue hitting news stands on Friday.

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Alison Sweeney who made sure she mentioned she was due with a girl in late January-January 20th to be exact-was on the Ellen Degeneres show talking about cravings and her show, The Biggest Loser. She mentioned how they have pickles on the set of her day job, Days Of Her Lives, and how she has to restrain herself from drinking the pickle juice.

“My husband gets kind of grossed out because sometimes I don’t really understand the combinations I’m creating. Like I’ll want hot chocolate, and then I’ll want a pickle, and then I’ll find myself [having] both.”

I know I had some wicked cravings too. It’s crazy what your body wants.

After a commercial break she pretended to go into labor as part of the segment for Ellen’s 12 Days of Christmas. I thought it was pretty funny. But her rep did confirm it was a joke.

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Pete Wentz is coming clean in the latest issue of Details magazine saying that Bronx wasn’t planned but he is happy he is here now.

“It was a happy accident. But I think that certain things happen for a reason in your life, and maybe it was time to put the wild child in a cage.”

He also said how much of a better person he is now that Ashlee Simpson is his wife and Bronx is his son…

“I realized I’d found my soul mate, and it made me want to be a better person,” he says. “Now, with the baby, I want to be the best dad I can be.”

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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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