We thought she’d be pregnant forever, but Jessica Simpson has finally delivered her baby. The singer/businesswoman gave birth to a baby girl today, May 1.  She and her fiance Eric Johnson announced the happy news on her website:

“Eric and I are elated to announce the birth of our baby girl, Maxwell Drew Johnson.  We are grateful for all the love, support and prayers we have received. This has been the greatest experience of our lives!!”

Little Maxwell’s androgynous name has familial origins.  Maxwell is Johnson’s middle name, while Drew is the maiden name of Simpson’s mother Tina Simpson.

And small wonder mama’s baby bump was so big:  Max was 9 lbs. 13 oz. and 21 3/4 in.  at birth.   Um, ouch!

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Congratulations to Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard!  Gyllenhaal gave birth to their second child, a daughter, on April 19th. Gloria Ray Sarsgaard joins big sister Ramona (5).

Gyllenhaal has been open about the demands of parenthood and how hard it is to balance working and being a mom.  In 2009, she told The Daily Mail:

“…motherhood is all-consuming.  Ten or 15 years ago there was this idea that women could do everything, and that they should be able to have these great careers and be mothers too. And I think that was a very helpful way of looking at things for a while.

“But now, with my generation, I think that there’s a sense of, ‘I can’t do everything, and nor should I have to. I need help and I need a husband and another set of hands, and even then I still might need help with babysitting.’ Working and mothering is extraordinarily difficult.”

Gyllenhaal recently appeared in a Got Milk? ad, touting the health benefits of the milk in her morning latte.  She and Sarsgaard have been a couple for a decade but married only since 2009.

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Is that really you, Snooki?

Now five months pregnant, Jersey Shore‘s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is already taking the responsibility of parenthood quite seriously.  She’s turned over a new leaf, and is giving all the credit to her unborn child.   She recently said:

“I guess (pregnancy) just made me more mature…I’m not drinking.  I’m usually partying and going to clubs, but the pregnancy made me grow up a lot.  [And] I haven’t tanned since August.”

No drinking AND no tanning?  Seriously, how do we even know it’s really Snooki?!

Polizzi’s new reality show, Snooki & JWOWW, chronicles the life and times of mom to be and her best friend Jenni “JWOWW” Farley.  It premieres on June 21.  Meanwhile, Jersey Shore‘s 6th season is set to start filming this summer.

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There’s another little Buffy on the way for Sarah Michelle Gellar!  She and husband Freddie Prinze, Jr. are expecting their second child.

The couple have been married since 2002 and are already parents to the adorable Charlotte (2).

A friend tells People:

“[Sarah] and Freddie are thrilled.  They love their little girl more than anything in the world and know that love will only multiply.  She is such a fantastic mom; it is just great news.”

Gellar currently appears in the CW show Ringer.

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Most of us moms find we need a little extra help sometimes to look our best, and Molly Ringwald claims to have found her own personal fountain of youth.   When she was recently asked by fan, “How did you manage to get hotter with age?”  Ringwald quipped:

I drink the blood of Kristen Stewart.

Nice.

Ringwald was answering fan questions in an Ask Me Anything session (AMA) on Reddit.  Fun!

Enjoy these pics of Ringwald, her husband, writer Panio Gianopoulos, daughter Mathilda (9) and a pal at the March premiere of Mirror, Mirror.

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Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta has just launched a new show, Don’t Be Tardy For The Wedding, and she hit the promo trail in New York  to chat it up.  Also on the agenda, evidently, was displaying her growing baby bump.   Zolciak is pregnant with her fourth child, just ten months after giving birth to a son, KJ.  While KJ was an accident, this pregnancy was “totally planned,” she says.

In addition to her son and the baby on the way, Zolciak has two daughters, Brielle (14) and Ariana (9).  She married Kroy Biermann of the Atlanta Falcons last November, and her new docu-series chronicles her wedding preparation process.

Catch Don’t Be Tardy For The Wedding on Bravo, Thursdays at 9:00 pm.

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Congratulations are in order for American Idol runner-up Bo Bice and his wife Caroline.  They welcomed their fourth child, a girl, on Monday, April 23rd.

Merrin Elizabeth Joy Bice weighed 8 lbs. 11 oz.  She is the couple’s first daughter, bound to be entirely spoiled by her big brothers Aiden (6), Caleb (3) and Ean (2).

Since losing the Idol crown to Carrie Underwood in 2005, Bo has been busy touring, writing songs, forming his own record label, and performing on two USO tours in Kuwait and Afghanistan.  He and Caroline have been married for seven years.

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Tamera Mowry has been having such a great time playing auntie that it seems she decided to have a baby of her own!    She and her husband Adam Housley are expecting a child in November.

Tamera and her husband, a FOX News correspondent, were married just under a year ago, on May 15, 2011.   Just a month later, Tamera’s twin sister Tia Mowry gave birth to her first child, Cree (10 mo.).  In October, Tamera told Us Weekly that she loved being an aunt but was in no rush to have children of her own.

“When my sister was pregnant, she told me everything that I needed to know about pregnancy, so I am not having kids anytime soon.”

Famous last words.  Congratulations to the couple!

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Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley have given their daughter Naleigh (3) a baby sister!  The couple adopted a second child, confirms Heigl’s rep.

No huge surprise: in February, Heigl told Scholastic Parent & Child that she’d “like to adopt again.”

Heigl and Kelley adopted Naleigh from South Korea in 2009.  There were no details revealed about the origin of their new little girl.

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Grandpa Ozzy?

Jack Osbourne has made his dad Ozzy Osbourne a grandfather!  Jack’s fiancee Lisa Stelly has given birth to a daughter.

Pearl Osbourne weighed 8 lbs. 6 oz.

Her arrival was eagerly anticipated by her grandmother Sharon Osbourne and auntie Kelly Osbourne, who both threatened to “spoil her rotten.”

Let the spoiling begin.  Congratulations to the family!  (Now when are Jack and Lisa getting married?)

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