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ITW: Camilla Parker Bowles is telling people Kate Middleton may be infertile
Arnold’s mistress threatened to go public when he fired her
Kirsten Dunst goes golden at Cannes: Lovely or mustardy?
Brad & Angelina are fighting over “Jennifer Aniston lookalike nanny”
LeAnn Rimes is marking her territory while Eddie Cibrian tries to work
Asinine sitcom based on Chelsea Handler’s life is coming to NBC (trailer)
Elisabetta Canalis’s modeling gig for Cavalli seems really budget
Gwyneth Paltrow covers Bon Appétit, claims she doesn’t have time to bathe
Jessica Alba advocates hypnobirthing classes: “I highly recommend it”
Why is Rachel McAdams doing the tired Marilyn Monroe thing?

ITW: Camilla Parker Bowles is telling people Kate Middleton may be infertile

Posted: 18 May 2011 08:58 AM PDT

I think this In Touch Weekly cover story crosses a line, but… I also kind of think that this is what Kate Middleton signed on for. It's not like Kate is going to sue an American tabloid for reporting the rumor that she's infertile. Plus, she should be able to prove everybody wrong soon enough. Anyway, the basic gist of ITW's story is that CAMILLA has been telling everybody Kate's fertility business. Which I could believe, because I have such a low opinion of Camilla. According to various sources, Camilla has been telling people that Kate has a history of health complications and she might not be able to conceive:

Kate's new mother-in-law Camilla has been telling friends the royal bride has fertility problems which may prevent her from getting pregnant — according to sources. If the claims are true, the newlyweds are facing up to the fact that they may never produce an heir to the British throne!

"Health complications from Kate's adolescence raised red flags that may have an impact on her ability to conceive," sources close to Camilla have told In In Touch Magazine.

The consequences would be devastating for the British monarchy. Both William, 28, and his father Prince Charles were born soon after their parents married, and the royal couple are under intense pressure to produce an heir soon.

Royal biographer Andrew Morton tells In Touch, "If Kate is not pregnant within the next nine months, she'll be defying 200 years of British tradition."

The last reining monarch to die without producing a legitimate heir was Will's great-great-great-great-great uncle King William IV, more than 170 years ago!

If William does indeed die heir-less, the throne would defer to the eldest male child of his younger brother Harry.

Unlike most couples, adoption isn't an option for William and Kate, 29 — only a biological child can be heir to the throne.

But sources tell In Touch the Duke and Duchess chose to ignore Kate's medical problems for a marriage "based on love."

[From HollyBaby]

Oh for the love of God. It's way too soon for this kind of story. I can't believe I'm defending my beloved Waity, but give the chica TIME. She's on her honeymoon. Let's see if William did his royal duty. If that doesn't work out, there are many other options in fertility treatments. ITW should really take it down a notch.

By the way, regarding William and Kate's honeymoon - Us Weekly reports this week that the whole cost of renting out all eleven villas on the North Island Resort in Seychelles has cost $720,000. For something like TEN days. Sources also claim that Will and Kate "participated in all the resort activities. They got involved in water sports with the best instructors in the world and even had golf carts and mountain bikes to explore the island on!" Sounds like a lot of work to avoid having honeymoon sex, right? No, I jest.

Meanwhile, regarding our new princess, the other Middleton, Pippa: Us Weekly also has a hilariously detailed story on how Pippa got her cute booty. The answer: Pilates. It didn't take a whole article to say that!

ITW cover courtesy of CoverAwards. Additional photos courtesy of WENN and Fame.

Arnold’s mistress threatened to go public when he fired her

Posted: 18 May 2011 08:47 AM PDT

Radar and Star Magazine have an inevitable follow-up in their story of Arnold’s housekeeper mistress. (When I first started writing this story I wrote “Mel’s mistress,” just look at the URL.) According to Radar, the woman threatened to go public with her story when Arnold fired her for some reason just a month ago. This doesn’t jibe with the timeline of when Arnold supposedly told Maria about his 14 year-old lovechild in January. I would think he would have kept this a secret as he’s done for years unless the mistress threatened to tell her. It’s still confusing to me, and this account may come straight from the mistress, who could be changing the timeline to make herself seem like the wronged party. Publicly she’s sort-of defended Arnold, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been selling her story behind the scenes. It’s also possible that Arnold didn’t tell Maria until the sh*t was about to hit the fan and tried to spin like he told her back when they first separated. Here’s Radar’s report:

The mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child threatened to go public with sordid details of their illicit affair — all because the Governator TERMINATED her employment.

A blockbuster RadarOnline.com and Star Magazine joint investigation has uncovered the real reason behind the former California’s governor’s admission that he fathered a son out of wedlock — it was because a shameful Schwarzenegger fired his mistress from her job as a housekeeper in a desperate attempt to save his marriage to wife Maria Shriver.

The woman, Mildred Patricia Baena, known as “Patty,” was identified for the first time in our world exclusive report.

To protect his privacy, RadarOnline.com is not publishing the teenager’s name.

“Mildred was furious that the father of her 14-year-old son would callously fire her from her job after decades of loyal service,” one of the Mildred’s closest confidantes told RadarOnline.com, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“She admitted to friends how she finally wanted to tell the secret — that she had kept faithfully for 14 years — to the world.”

Mildred even entertained the idea of coming forward and speaking with a magazine, the source said.

“It was a nuclear blow-up between her and Arnold,” said the pal.

It’s not known if the Mildred’s tell-all plan was ever executed or whether the threat prompted 63-year-old Schwarzenegger’s disclosure about his illegitimate child.

What’s clear, however, is that this revelation is in direct contradiction to claims that the ex-maid ‘retired’ in January after two decades working at the Schwarzenegger/Shriver estate in Brentwood, California.

“Mildred did not retire… she was working for Arnold and Maria until about four weeks ago,” a source told RadarOnline.com.

“But all of a sudden and out of nowhere, she was told there was no longer work for her.”

Said the insider: “Mildred took it hard.”

The woman’s apparent move to go public is particularly noteworthy given she had remained silent for so long about what inevitably has become one of the most scandalous political and Hollywood cover-ups.

[From Radar]

I still don’t get why Arnold supposedly told Maria back in January if this woman only threatened to go public a month ago. The whole thing is fishy.

Never one to give Radar credit for running an exclusive, TMZ posted this woman’s MySpace photos after a lead from The Daily Mail and put their logo all over them and acted like they had the exclusive. They also repeated already published information about her without crediting their sources. (I’m really surprised she hasn’t deleted her MySpace yet, but it’s still before 9 on the West Coast and maybe she’s sleeping in. It’s also possible she created it with an old email address she doesn’t have access to anymore.)

TMZ does have an exclusive (from what I can tell, who knows where they got the pics) with photos of this woman’s baby shower back when she was pregnant by Arnold. (At the same time that Maria Shriver was pregnant with her last.) To answer the question that many of you have been asking - no, she wasn’t a lot cuter 14 years ago. Is that harsh? Probably.

Kirsten Dunst goes golden at Cannes: Lovely or mustardy?

Posted: 18 May 2011 08:41 AM PDT

At the Cannes photocall for the Lars von Trier-directed Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst breezed through as a (mostly) polished-up version of her usual grungy self in a sunshiney golden dress, red lipstick, and tastefully restrained jewelry. I do like the cut of this dress and the fabric is gorgeous as well, but something about how it’s put together (the waist?) seems a little bit matronly. Still, Kiki pulls it off and manages to look rather endearing here.

That is, she looks pretty good until we get to the feet. Why bother with a manicure without a pedicure to match? Also, I’m not loving these sandals, which probably cost more than most of my shoes combined but look like they came from Walmart.

Also present at the photocall was Kiki’s Melancholia co-star, Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is quite pregnant and (presumably) deemphasizing her bump in an all black outfit. Somehow, she pulls it off without looking like a douche (unlike, say, the hattastic Adrien Brody). How to explain this discrepancy? I’ve got no idea except to point towards the fact that Charlotte is French, so she should be allowed to wear black in Cannes.

Much further along on the bad behavior scale would be Danish director Lars von Trier, who “pulled a Mel Gibson” by turning a Cannes press conference into a rather tasteless joke about how he’s a Nazi who loves Jews but sympathizes with Hitler. All of the following verbal diarrhea arrived in response to a question about von Trier’s Germanic ancestry:

“For a long time I thought I was a Jew and I was happy to be a Jew,” [von Trier] began, “then I met (Danish and Jewish director) Susanne Bier and I wasn't so happy. But then I found out I was actually a Nazi. My family were German. And that also gave me some pleasure. What can I say? I understand Hitler…I sympathize with him a bit.”

Von Trier qualified that “I don’t mean I’m in favor of World War II and I’m not against Jews, not even Susanne Bier” before digging himself deeper. “In fact I’m very much in favor of them. All Jews. Well, Israel is a pain in the ass but…”

As Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg, sitting on either side of Von Trier, stared at him agog, the director paused.

“Now how can I get out of this sentence? Ok. I’m a Nazi.”

It was a grandiose performance by European cinema's premiere enfant terrible as Von Trier managed to shock just about everyone in the room. And also made them laugh with the sort of chuckle that gets caught in the throat.

The Nazi comments came at the end of a sprawling routine in which Von Trier said his new movie “may be crap…there’s quite a big possibility that it might not be worth seeing” and mused that his next project with Dunst and Gainsbourg would be a 3 to 4 hour porn film “with lots of uncomfortable sex.”

Von Trier’s deadpan delivery and cheerful cherub-like smile hinted to the audience that everything was one big joke.

Certainly no one took the director seriously when, asked if he would like to do a film on a larger scale, answered: “Yes. We Nazis like to do things on a big scale. Maybe I could do The Final Solution.”

[From Hollywood Reporter]

Of course, it’s always wise to never take anything seriously if it comes out of von Trier’s mouth, but I do believe he’s gone too far with this little off-topic rant. There’s such a thing as being “politically incorrect” and then there’s also such a thing as being “an insensitive, unfunny jerk.” Not to mention a self-indulgent, pretentious circle jerk as well. By the way, here’s the trailer for Melancholia, which is billed as “a beautiful movie about the end of the world” and the cast of which includes Alexander Skarsgard and Kiefer Sutherland:

Photos courtesy of WENN

Brad & Angelina are fighting over “Jennifer Aniston lookalike nanny”

Posted: 18 May 2011 08:25 AM PDT

Having covered the many, many tabloid stories about Brangelina throughout the years, I truly appreciate it when a tabloid gives me new material to work with. Some tabloid concepts are overdone and overwrought - "Brad is calling Aniston! Angelina takes away his phone privileges!" Or: "Angelina nags Brad, Brad cries!" But every now and again, a tabloid will come up with a new twist that amuses me. This is one of those times. Star Mag took a standard issue story - "Brad speaks to [random woman], Angelina gets pissed" - and combined it with a genius add-on. The random woman in this case was a nanny Brad was interviewing for a position (in his pants). The nanny is "a dead ringer for Jennifer Aniston." So Brad and Angelina aren't fighting over the actual Aniston, just the Aniston Avatar.

Another day, another rumor of a massive blowout between super-couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. This time, they reportedly fought when Brad interviewed a nanny behind Angelina's back — and according to Star, the nanny is a dead ringer for Jennifer Aniston!

"When Angie found out, she absolutely lost it, and the two had a horrible fight the day after Mother's Day," the source says. "She is livid; she feels lied to and deceived."

According to the mag, Brad met with the sexy nanny while Angie was away in Cambodia — and Angie didn't exactly appreciate his proactivity. In fact, she reportedly hates the idea of having a blonde nanny, because it would make her think of Brad's exes, Jen and Gwyneth Paltrow.

And it sounds like Angie's really upping the requirements for all future applicants: "The first applicant Angie vetoed has a degree in child development, speaks three languages and knows how to box," the source reveals. "Unfortunately, she's also 24 years old, shapely and adorable."

[From Hollywood Life]

I really, really wish people would stop referring to Jennifer Aniston as "blonde". She's NOT. She's a natural dark brunette who lightens her hair to a honey-caramel color, which in my book means she's still a brunette. Gwyneth is also a natural brunette (judging from her super-dark roots), but she lightens her hair to full-on blonde.

As for the fight and stuff… well, whatever. I did like the part about Angelina not wanting to hire the nanny with "a degree in child development, speaks three languages and knows how to box." Because what mother wants a "shapely, adorable 24-year-old" around? Are you going to judge Angelina for that?

And let me just be clear, because apparently my Brangeloonie status in question this week: I don't think Brad and Angelina are fighting. I don't think Brad is making eyes at any kind of nanny person. I think Brad thinks that he won the lottery with Angelina. I would think that too, after these photos.

Star cover courtesy of CoverAwards. Additional photos by WENN.

LeAnn Rimes is marking her territory while Eddie Cibrian tries to work

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:44 AM PDT

If you've been following this site for a while, you know that we used to cover lots of LeAnn Rimes stories. At some point, that changed. Part of it was that LeAnn is such a crazed, delusional famewhore, and by covering her every insanity, it felt like we were feeding her delusions of grandeur that she really was and is some kind of major celebrity, instead of a hilarious oddity ripe for mocking, a la Lindsay Lohan. Another part of the reason why we stopped covering LeAnn so much was because some commenters started going a bit overboard on LeAnn posts. So I'll say this - if you'd like us to start covering LeAnn stories on the regular again, dial it down. I'm not judging. LeAnn is fun to hate on. But don't go overboard.

So, I've been seeing the odd report about Eddie Cibrian's new gig, and I think it's a disaster waiting to happen. Not the show itself - the show, The Playboy Club, actually seems like it could be a half-decent show if the writing is any good. No, the disaster will be with Eddie Cibrian and his wandering dong history. The Playboy Club is a show set in the late 1960s, in a Playboy Club (you might be too young to remember). They were clubs full of lovely young women all dressed up as Playboy bunnies, serving drinks and providing entertainment. Sienote: Gloria Steinam's time as a Playboy bunny at a Playboy Club inspired a really wonderful feminist treatise, by the way. Anyway, Cibrian is playing the manager of this club, I guess, and the show just got picked up by NBC. Meaning that next year, Eddie is going to be working full time on a show with dozens, if not hundreds, or scantily-clad, pretty women.

Of course, we know Eddie has a type, and it's not… let's say… "traditionally pretty." So should LeAnn be worried anyway? Sure. Why not? I don't think Eddie is picky, in general. So LeAnn is starting to feel the pinch, so how does she react? By going completely overboard and marking her territory like an animal:

Chalk it up to the honeymoon phase? Newlyweds LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are packing on the PDA everywhere they go!

A source tells Us Weekly that Rimes, 28, and husband Cibrian, 37, attended an NBC upfront party at Del Posto in NYC on Monday night and were “making out in the middle of [everything].” The source adds Rimes was “making a compete scene and holding up her camera as they are making out so she [could] take pictures of them making out — it was unreal.”

“We were like, ‘Who the hell is that?’” the source says. “And of course it was them. It was so beyond ridiculous.”

Another source on the set of Cibrian’s new show The Playboy Club tells Us: “LeAnn never left [Eddie's] side when they shot the pilot.”

[From Us Weekly]

Do you think LeAnn is going to be on the set every single day while they shoot the series? Will she cling to Eddie like her life depends on it? Probably. She'll try. My guess is that she's also going to try to get knocked up really soon. But I doubt she is now - she's still way too, too skinny. Check out these photos of LeAnn and Eddie last night, here at The Mail. Yikes. That does not look like a woman who is confident in herself. I think she's been hitting the Botox too.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Asinine sitcom based on Chelsea Handler’s life is coming to NBC (trailer)

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:27 AM PDT

I vaguely remember hearing that there was some kind of Chelsea Handler sitcom coming, but I didn’t realize that it was based on her life, not her show, and that it would be rolling out soon. Chelsea is inexplicably popular despite what a bitter nasty person she is (ok, takes one to know one, etc.) and she does have two books on the NY Times non-fiction bestseller list. So I guess it’s inevitable that someone would try to turn her story into a sitcom. Laura Prepon stars as the Chelsea character and Chelsea plays her Christian conservative sister with her own characteristic deadpan humor.

Chelsea Handler’s got a starring role in the brand new NBC show based on her memoir. Weird, then, that she’s playing her own worst enemy.

NBC, which announced last week the series pickup of the memoir-based “Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea,” unveiled a long teaser trailer for the show, which actually stars “That 70’s Show” alum Laura Preppon in the thinner-than-paper “fictional” role of Chelsea Hanson. With the series based on her younger, wilder days, Handler herself plays Sloane, her (well, Preppon as her) older, pregnant, born again Christian sister.

The trailer contains plenty of canned laughter for what are largely easy jokes about DUI, alcoholism and STD’s. So, for now, what seems to be a network-scrubbed version of Handler’s talk show on E!, “Chelsea Lately.” The show doesn’t have a slot in the initial NBC lineup, but considering the shuffling the network has produced each season, it should hit airwaves sooner than later.

[From Huffington Post]

The good news is that NBC has announced its Fall schedule and this is not included. It’s like a backup show from what HuffPo is reporting.

After watching the trailer I have to admit I did laugh once - when the roommate had scratch marks from the cat and said “he’s angry ’cause he can’t talk.” Other than that it looks like a stock sitcom with typical jokes and cardboard characters. I’m annoyed that this will be on NBC, which has my favorite sitcom, Community, and my favorite drama, Parenthood. If they mess up the time slots or screw with either of those shows to give Chelsea Handler a platform so help me. NBC has no idea how to handle their decent shows, but at least they finally announced that Parenthood has been renewed. They’re waiting for a ratings dip somewhere to wedge this show in.

I like Laura Prepon, she was really good on That 70s Show, but it’s not like I’m going to watch this because she’s in it. I changed my opinion of Prepon slightly when I found out she was a Scientologist, probably because she used to date Christopher Masterson from Malcolm in the Middle. He and his brother Danny were raised in the cult.

Elisabetta Canalis’s modeling gig for Cavalli seems really budget

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:07 AM PDT

As we saw yesterday, Elisabetta Canalis is partying and "working" in the South of France. She showed up on a yacht in Cannes and she was happy to be pap'd in various stages of sunbathing. Now we know a little bit more about her trip - the yacht she's on is Robert Cavalli, the designer who adores George Clooney enough to give Clooney's girlfriend a gig as a "model". And today Eli did some "modeling" aboard the yacht in this interesting red thing. She's actually posing for photos, but I'm struggling to know what to call this. Is this a "photo shoot"? Is it for an ad campaign? Or does Eli just get paid to show up in a yacht, put on what appears to some kind of "harem ensemble" and just pose for whoever wants to take her picture?

Before you judge me for my confusion, I should note that Elisabetta also seemed to "pose" for photos before she put on the presumably Cavalli harem outfit. She was "pap'd" (if you want to call it that) in various stages as she prepared for her "modeling gig"…? It's all so bizarre. I feel like the Cannes Film Festival is where the traditional rules of "jobs" and "gigs" and "modeling" don't apply. So I have no idea what's going on. All I know is that it pays to be George Clooney's girlfriend, right?

You can additional photos of Eli in various stages of undress here. She does have a stunning body. But the whole deal - the body, the face, the attitude, the Adam's apple - just seems very drag queen to me. I know, I know. She’s what I would call a “handsome” woman from some angles, but most of the time she just looks like a pretty drag queen.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Gwyneth Paltrow covers Bon Appétit, claims she doesn’t have time to bathe

Posted: 18 May 2011 06:41 AM PDT

Gwyneth Paltrow covers the new issue of Bon Appetit, because, you know, she's a master chef now. The photo shoot is okay - it looks a lot like the one she did with Vogue last year, only there's less WHITE. Gwyneth looks colorful and healthy, like she isn't racked with vitamin deficiency and bird-like bones. I do like that she's biting her lip on the cover. It reminds me of Kristen Stewart. It also makes it seem like Gwyneth is just about to laugh at all of us for almost buying her "I'm one of you, I can act like a peasant too" act. She's having a giggle because she thinks she's pulled it off. You can read the full article here, and see the slideshow (of Dame Goop cooking) here. Here's an excerpt from the article:

She’ll tell you herself: She’s not Wonder Woman. “Don’t know how that rumor got into the papers,” she says of the magazine project. “It could not be further from the truth. I literally do not have time to bathe let alone start a magazine.”

Oh, yeah—time. That can be hard to find when you’re raising two kids and your husband, Chris Martin, is the lead singer in one of the world’s biggest bands, Coldplay. (Martin makes a brief appearance during the shoot post-morning workout, breezing into the kitchen amid the lights and stylists to crank up a purple energy shake in the family’s Vitamix blender.)

As a cook, Paltrow has vacillated between obsessively health-minded and just-like-the-rest-of-us indulgent, finally settling somewhere in the sensible middle. When her father, the late Bruce Paltrow, was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998, she immersed herself in research of all things good for you, hoping, as she writes in her book, to heal her dad: “Of course I couldn’t cure him, but I found that my body felt really good.” She ended up going vegan for several years—that is, until she became pregnant, at which point grilled cheese and Baskin-Robbins Jamoca Almond Fudge ice cream won out. When she began raising her children, Apple and Moses, she wanted them to eat well and enjoy food. “Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral?” she writes. “Yes, I could.”

Few of Paltrow’s recipes—which she develops with her kitchen assistant Julia Turshen, whom she credits prominently in her book—are what you’d call complex. And that’s by design. There’s a fresh simplicity to them; they’re healthy-ish without being preachy. In the book, for instance, she gives a great recipe for an oyster po’boy, but also provides a vegan option. And she has recipes for dishes like roasted fish with salsa verde, chicken and dumplings, and spaghetti alle vongole. If you like Jamie Oliver or the River Cafe cookbooks, My Father’s Daughter will speak to you.

What’s most engaging about Paltrow’s recipes is that there’s usually a reason and a story behind each. “It’s how I think as a cook,” she says while slicing grilled chicken breasts on the bias, just like a catering chef. “I wouldn’t say I’m a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I’ll want to take it further or adapt it in some way. I’m not going to be doing molecular gastronomy; I’m a wife and a mom and a home cook.”

The only request Paltrow makes during the shoot is that it wrap by 3:00 p.m. so she can pick up her kids from school. At 2:58, we get the last shots of her. A few minutes later she reappears in beat-up jeans and a snug leather jacket, having transformed from cover girl to concerned mom. “You guys aren’t going to let all this food go to waste, are you?” she asks the crew as she gathers up the chicken breasts and slides them into a mega Ziploc bag.

“Make sure you take some home with you. Okay,” she says on her way toward the front door. “I gotta go! Gotta get the kids.” And that’s it. School’s out, shoot’s over. And the chicken is delicious.

[From Bon Appetit]

Several things surprised me in the article. One, Chris Martin made an appearance, and he didn't come across like a curmudgeon who despises his wife. Although… you notice that Chris isn't eating what Goop is cooking, right? Ha. Two, Dame Goop didn't name-drop anyone. It's been so long since I've read an interview with her where she didn't toss in a "My best friend Beyonce loves my spinach puree with sapphire truffle oil, but my dearest fishmonger told me that that I was the only one who could properly do the halibut with crème d'baby seal, which is what I did for my amazing friends Bill Gates and those Chilean miners."

Photos courtesy of Bon Appetit.

Jessica Alba advocates hypnobirthing classes: “I highly recommend it”

Posted: 18 May 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Although she’s undeniably beautiful, Jessica Alba has always revealed herself to be a rather dimwitted piece of work whose “acting” leaves much to be desired. Most recently and after years of substandard performances and less than impressive box-office pull, Alba decided to diss screenwriters by claiming that good actors don’t use the script unless it’s just phenomenal writing; she then attempted to blame her own failures as an atress on first-time directors. It’s not like Alba never had any say in what scripts she approved and/or decided to actually follow as a “good” actress, right? Anyway, Dame Alba has completed a great portion of her second pregnancy and, as such, has decided to dispense some pregnancy advice to fellow expectant mothers. Surprisingly, she doesn’t sound like a complete idiot here either:

Jessica Alba has some unique advice for other expectant moms.

The 30-year-old actress recommends “hypnobirthing classes” — which are increasingly popular among pregnant women. Hypnobirthing involves the use of hypnosis during childbirth.

“It’s different for everyone, although I do recommend the hypnobirthing classes.” Alba told Us Weekly on Monday at the RIMOWA store opening in Beverly Hills. “I highly recommend it. It just makes you chill.”

The actress wasn’t quite so “chill” before the birth of daughter Honor Marie, 2: “I was freaked out going into it my first time going into labor. Like what if I panic? What if I just freak out and I don’t know what to do?”

So is the second pregnancy easier for Alba? “Oh yeah! But a little bit harder on the body because my daughter still wants to be picked up. Ever since my belly popped, she really is on me!”

[From Us Weekly]

The initial response to most things that come out of Alba’s mouth is to initially discount them. Even I find myself skeptical although I’ve been through one childbirth experience, but a good friend of mine has been through the hypnobirthing classes and insists that they actually do help in easing both the pain associated with childbirth and the actual process itself. In fact, a 2006 NYT article makes a pretty good case for using the “subconscious mind” as a means to relaxing the initial stages of labor. So is Alba crazy, or does she have an actual point? Let’s hear it, bitches.

Photos courtesy of Fame Pictures

Why is Rachel McAdams doing the tired Marilyn Monroe thing?

Posted: 18 May 2011 06:09 AM PDT

I hate to say it, but I beginning to think that Rachel McAdams has significant style problems. I've been in denial about it for a long time, but her tacky-ass style on full display at the Cannes Film Festival, and now she's brought it stateside. These are photos from last night's NYC screening of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Rachel managed to make this Louis Vuitton dress look like a pageant gown. And she was all done up in some kind of homage to Marilyn Monroe too, what with the shorter blonde curls, the near wardrobe malfunction in the wind. I would have thought Rachel is more original than a cheap Marilyn homage.

Sure, I guess the dress isn't really BAD (although I don't think it's good either). It's certainly better than the ice-skater's Marchesa and that hideous beige thing that I want to forget. But here's my theory for young Hollywood celebrity women: The Marilyn thing is so overdone, over-played and tired. It's the styling choice of last resort for ladies who view themselves as some sort of deep, tragic blonde bombshell. Considering Rachel isn't even known as a blonde, her style choices just frighten me at this point. Do you think Michael Sheen prefers her as blonde?

You want to see something even worse though? Here you go.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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