Isla and Olive are both so cute!

Bibi, that was Carrie, not me.

BTW, I’m guessing Olive was breastfed. My kids were, so we never even had bottles. They went directly from breast to cup. I didn’t want to have to wean twice.

You’re dealing in stereotypes, Southern Belle. And you should be aware that parents dealing in stereotypes may cause identity problems for children of partial Jewish heritage in the future.

As to the Cohen/Fisher situation, I’ve read that it’s his father who’s religious, not his mom. His mom is Israeli, they tend to be rather secular. I’d also guess that their objection to Isla has as much to do with her prior career as a pin-up girl and to her highly publicized engangements to actor/coke addict Darren Day and to record producer Anthony de Rothschild as they do with religion.

I have to say that I’m really perturbed by the way older Jewish women are portrayed as domineering and Jewish men are portrayed as mother’s boys on these forums. In my own experience, Jewish but married to a non-Jew, I can tell you that a gentile mother-in-law can be as big a problem as Mrs. Baron Cohen is said to be.

I can’t speak for other Jewish families, but my husband comes from a Jewish family. He is a Christian, however, so we only hear of stories about other family members that are Orthodox Jews. Again, I am only speaking from our experience, but we know of mothers in the family who have their sons so tied to their apron strings that they are more afraid of crossing their mothers than they are of anything. And the Jewish mothers in our family rule the house…what they say goes. And none of them would ever accept their sons bringing home Gentile girls to marry. We’ve heard from other Jewish couples that this is a common conflict, but it may have absolutely nothing to do with the Fisher/Cohen families. I’ve wondered what the dynamics of their relationship are, but at the end of the day, realize it’s their business. There are LOTS of other “engaged” Hollywood couples with a child or children. I think many of them say they are engaged thinking it will make it easier on their children or more acceptable in the public eye. Many of them break up and never go through a messy divorce. But, I still think the children may suffer the same emotional traumas of being torn between two parents as the children of divorce. Anywho, nobody really knows what is going on in the Fisher/Cohen household. Olive is a cutie!

I love the dress Isla is wearing. Does anyone know the designer name?

Vicky, your situation is a lot different than Isla and Sascha’s. You waited because of college. Isla is 32 so she was around 28 when they were engaged so being engaged for 4 years with no wedding in sight (seemingly).

I LOVE Isla! She’s one of my favorite actresses and little Olive is so, so cute! I also wonder why they haven’t gotten married yet. Only time will tell, eh?

There is nothing wrong with a 10 month old and a sippy cup. My daughter just turned 10 months and her pediatrician recommended at her 9 month appointment to start her on one to help ease the transition after her first birthday. She is still taking a bottle, just not at meal times and while we’re out and about. To each their own though!

I knew there would be comments about a 10 month old with a sippy cup. Janie, the “rest of us” aren’t breaking from the bottle that young. To each their own.

There is nothing wrong with being engaged for a long time. I started dating my bf at 15 and we were engaged at 18. I didn’t want to get married until after I graduated college, so at the age of 22, a week after I graduated, we finally got married. It had nothing to do with not wanting to get married, we just wanted to wait till the right time. (my mom was also in Iraq for 2yrs before we got married and wanted to wait till she was home).

There were a number of pictures of all three of them, Isla, Sacha and Olive, on the beach in Hawaii a couple weeks back. That’s where her gorgeous red bikini pics came from!

While I don’t care if they do or do not get married, I hope they stay together because I just adore them both as actors so much!