Knocked Up Celebs

Mariah Carey is excited about her post-baby weight loss, and wants the world to know it!  She appears on the cover of the May 2012 issue of Shape, showing off her figure in a bikini bottom and baby tee.

With her twins Moroccan and Monroe nearing their first birthday on April 30, Carey told the fitness magazine about the challenges she faced trying to lose weight after delivering them.

“I put on 70 lbs, but if you look at me in pictures you’d think it was more like 9,000 lbs…I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that’s changed. Since having the babies, I realise that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet…. [the rest is]more about getting and staying toned.”

Catch the whole article when the issue hits newsstands on April 23.

Photo:  Shape

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon will make an appearance on 20/20 with Barbara Walters this Friday.   They’ll show off their six month old twins, Monroe and Moroccan, and give viewers a peek into their Manhattan apartment.   This is bound to be interesting in an insane kind of way.

Catch the Carey-Cannon family’s 20/20 appearance on ABC this Friday at 10 pm Eastern.

Video: ABC

Mariah Carey is slowly coming out of her post-partum cocoon, following the April birth of her twins Moroccan and Monroe.    She appeared on HSN last month, and now she’s revealed both how she looks post-baby – and how she’s working off the baby weight.

On Wednesday, Mariah Tweeted a photo of herself in a black, one-piece swimsuit playing in the surf.  She said:

Ocean work out! It’s been a loooong time since I’ve been in the ocean

Great idea!  Swimming and water workouts are a great way to get in shape.  Mariah looks like she’s having a good time.

Photo:  Twitter

Mariah Carey popped over to the Home Shopping Network on Monday to hock some of her branded goods.  This was her first public appearance since giving birth to twins Monroe and Moroccan, and it really showed.   Mimi was in fine form, cutting off host Adam Freeman, bossing the cameramen and correcting the models – all while hyping up her collection of jewelry, shoes, bags and clothing.

She also shared a bit about her experience of being pregnant with multiples.

“[Pregnancy] was bleak for me… I was so uncomfortable.  I’m kind of proud of myself. I really am — sorry, pregnant with twins is different than anything! [People] were always saying to me, ‘Oh, but it’s all worth it!’ Yeah, but it’s easy to say when you’re not the one whose feet are this big! It turned into like a really difficult time.

My body went through so much.  Holding those twins in — you have to keep them in as long as possible. It’s a sacrifice you make for them. Literally I was like, 47-weeks pregnant.”

Forty-seven weeks pregnant!  Mariah is goofy as hell, but at least she’s real; I’m sure carrying twins to term felt like a 47 week pregnancy!  Enjoy the video.

Video:  YouTube

The apples didn’t fall far from the tree at all when it comes to Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey‘s twins, Moroccan and Monroe – in Dad’s opinion, at least.  The proud dad chatted with Extra TV about his two-month old twins, and revealed that they are quite a bit like their parents.

Nick says that while Moroccan (Roc) is “a tough guy,” sister Monroe is “just a diva.”  (No surprise there.)  However, when it comes to looks, roles are reversed.

“My son looks like my wife and my daughter looks like me.”

I’m trying to imagine a male Mariah Carey and all I keep coming up with in my head is a drag queen.  Then again, that’s probably because Mariah often looks like a drag queen to me.

Nick also claims that Roc is “already crawling,” which is hardly believable.    Sounds like a pretty typical dad bragging on his son, though!

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Mariah Carey is on the new issue of Life & Style magazine, that comes out on Friday, showing off her baby bump. Mariah says that posing for the pictures in the magazine made her very vulnerable.

“I was feeling very vulnerable about taking pictures at all right now, but then I didn’t want to miss this opportunity to document this once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Mariah exclusively tells Life & Style. “My ultimate goal was to share this incredibly personal moment with my true fans.”

And it seemed at the photo shoot that the babies were ready for the photo shoot.

“The babies were kicking almost the entire time; it was unbelievable,” Mariah tells Life & Style. “Especially the girl — clearly she’s a diva in training! We didn’t start shooting until 1:30 a.m. because I was in the hospital from the night before until the day of the shoot with contractions five minutes apart!”

And through all of this, it’s given Mariah a new perspective on things.

“Now I have so much respect for mothers everywhere, especially those who’ve had difficult pregnancies or given birth to multiples. We need to have Mother’s Day once a week!”

Her twins, a boy and a girl, are due in the next couple of weeks.

Photo Source: Life & Style

Life & Style is reporting that Mariah Carey and husband, Nick Cannon, are expecting a boy and a girl.  Mariah is telling them exclusively:

“Even before we announced it was twins, I was trying to keep everything genderneutral because I didn’t want to impose an identity on them too soon,” Mariah tells Life & Style with a laugh. “There were fan contests on Twitter about what gender they are and rumors about them being two boys or two girls — but nobody guessed this!”

That should be exciting and then they will have one of each already. Congratulations goes out to the parents to be!

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I know that sometimes it takes me forever to pick up on things but when I heard Mariah Carey refer to her baby as “they” I payed attention right away. Nick Cannon, Mariah’s husband, confirmed on his radio show that Mariah is in fact expecting twins.

“In order for my wife and I to have our life, we need to be up front and I need to be able to share things with you and be real. I didn’t even tell my wife I was gonna do this,” he admitted. “I’m probably gonna get yelled at for not getting permission…We are having twins!”

I knew it. And they just had an ultrasound on Wednesday night and the babies are doing fine. I can’t wait to see how cute the twins will be.

Photo Source: Us Magazine

Some mothers make a point of singing to their babies when they are still in their stomach. In an interview that will air tomorrow, with Radio Disney’s Ernie D, he asked if there’s a particular song from Mariah Carey‘s new “Merry Christmas II You” she’s singing to her belly and she answered…

“The whole album, because I was recording this, and that’s what was going on. I just hope that they don’t turn out hating Christmas!”

They? I wonder if she is going to have twins?

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Mariah Carey revealed to the world that she was pregnant on Thursday saying:

“Yes, we are pregnant. It is true. It’s been a long journey. It’s been tough because I’ve been trying to hold on to a shred of privacy.”

And just yesterday she said she was happy she finally revealed she was pregnant so she didn’t have to keep it secret any longer.

“We told the world what’s going on…and then I did two [Christmas] videos. It was a relief. Today I was, like, walking around, at least everybody, I feel like it made everyone else around me a little more relaxed. I feel like they were extra super-cautious about everything … “

How is she feeling being pregnant?

“Right now I feel nauseous and exhausted!”

I can’t wait to hear what her cravings will be! Congratulations goes out to Mariah and her husband, Nick Cannon.

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