Alison Sweeney Celebrates Her Upcoming Arrival

Eric Blackmon

The Biggest Loser host and Days of Our Lives star Alison Sweeney raked in the gifts at her November 2nd baby shower at the Treehouse Social Club in LA. But there was a twist — all presents were donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “It seemed the perfect opportunity to do something good and have a good time, too,” Alison, who’s expecting a girl with husband David Sanov on January 20th, told Life & Style at the bash, which was hosted by the Hot Moms Club, sponsored by BabyPlus and Huggies and decked out by decorator Jennifer Sbranti. The guests — who noshed on Sunflower Baking cookies and Crumbs cupcakes while sipping Bloom Tea and Izze drinks — included several of Alison’s Days co-stars, as well as her 3 ½-year-old son, Benjamin Edward.

Ali’s favorite gifts were cozy clothes from Bebabean, girly things from My Princess Closet, a Little Giraffe robe and blankets, and her pink Bugaboo stroller. Guestsleft with Hot Moms Club gift bags worth over $1500 and kids left withNational Geographic Kids swag bags as well!

Although Alison, 32, says she loves having a boy, she’s looking forward to getting her girl on with the new baby. “I love decorating her room with all this great girlie stuff,” she said. “I’ll be honest, I’m very excited about buying a princess dress. And the lip gloss and nail polish — it’s going to be so cute!” Don’t expect a name like Apple or Honor, though. “We’re very traditional,” said Alison. “We’re not at all interested in artsy, creative, trendy names.”

If you missed our CBB interview with Alison — she answered your questions! — check it out here.

Source: Life & Style; Hot Moms Club

Click ‘More’ for many additional images from the shower!

With Petunia Pickle Bottom Diaper Bag.

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With husband Dave, son Ben and Safety Mate.

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With pink Bugaboo Bee, a favorite.

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With Dream Baby CD.

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Lots of clothes!

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Gift bag filled with goodies, handed out to guests as they left the party.

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Comments

Kelly on November 13th, 2008

Aww good for you Alison!!! Ben is so cute & its good to know theres still a few celebs whos kids wont have unique names

claudiazz on November 13th, 2008

It is kind of refreshing to hear someone say they are going to name their child a traditional name. I think that we are on overload with cutesy names right about now!! I personally am “appled” out—LOL!!

Beverley on November 13th, 2008

I appreciate that the gifts were donated to charity, but imagine what a charity could have done with the money it took to make all those $1500 gift bags.

Much better than a corporate sponsored baby shower would be if the corporations donated money to children’s charities in the name of the parents and the new baby. That wouldn’t be so tacky.

Jen K on November 13th, 2008

MORE $1500 gift bags?? Why weren’t those donated as well? Over the top.

Becky on November 13th, 2008

I have never gotten a gift bag “filled with goodies” at any of the showers I have been to! I need different friends!

fay on November 13th, 2008

why did she have to call out specific children’s names?

apple and honor are real ppl, and i think it is very tactless for her to talk abt CHILDREN in this manner… she wants to name her kid a traditional name, that’s fine, it’s her right, but to call out other ppls SPECIFIC choices on what they’ve named their children is wrong… especially because these are CHILDREN…

did moon unit, ahmet and the rest of the zappa kids get this much flack?

how abt summer, river, and joaquin phoenix… JEEZ why can’t ppl just name their baby’s whatever the hell they want…

Emily on November 13th, 2008

Pregnancy suits her! She looks amazing!

Sarita on November 13th, 2008

Must be so awkward to pose with all those products as if they are your favourite…

I agree about the giftbags, those are ridiculous. The value is probably 250USD as those prices are high because of the name not the product, so at least it’s less money wasted.

Bren on November 13th, 2008

I LOVE baby shower!! lol

Why do we expect for celebrities to donate everything to charity? I mean, if she wants to not donate something is ok too…is not only their responsibility to give because they are rich, it is all of our resposability! I mean if they want to keep some of the gifts, fine with me! if they want to donate the gifts but give the friends the gift bags, fine with me too. Does everyone on this blog donate everything at their childrens birthday party or at their babyshower? and dont tell me ‘we’ shouldn’t and they should because they make more money then us. Gosh she donated the gifts, let her give her friends the gift bags!! now that said, The St. Jude children hospital is my favorite organization to give to
I can’t wait to hear the traditional name her baby is going to have!!

Oh yes and I love that bugaboo!

chloe on November 13th, 2008

since when is creative or unique a bad thing?

in my world those are positive adjectives.

Ashley on November 13th, 2008

I love following her pregnancy! My son is 3 and am expecting our baby girl Jan 11th too. What a great shower with such wonderful gifts! I think it’s great she donated them to St. Jude.

Stephany on November 13th, 2008

I agree with you, Bren. She donates gifts to the St. Jude’s center and seems to be “bashed” in a sense for not donate money, instead and letting her friends leave with goody bags! What’s up with that? I just hope people who are saying this are donating all your gifts (or MONEY!) to this charity or other charities…

Chloe, I saw nowhere in this post where Alison Sweeney said creative and unique names are bad. She says she’s “not into them.” Just as others may not be into traditional names. It’s all about preference. I do like unique and creative names but I probably wouldn’t give my child name such as Honor or Apple. I just prefer traditional names.

Anywhoo…I love these pictures. Alison looks so happy. I’m excited for her!

Sara on November 13th, 2008

These photos are wonderful! Allison looks so happy, Ben too…what a cutie! The gifts bags were generous and I agree Sarita, she went above and beyond and shouldn’t be judged in any negative way for giving her friends gift bags!

chloe on November 13th, 2008

i wasn’t referring to her comments specifically but rather the comments of previous posters in response to her.

i just think it’s strange to use the words creative and unique as negatives. not even just associated with names. i just found it strange. i’ve always thought of both of those things as positive.

fay on November 13th, 2008

i resent that you didn’t post my comment, i purposely wrote it in such a way to make it follow the rules, it wasn’t harsh, it wasn’t rude, it TOTALLY followed the rules… i think u guys were being a bit restrictive on this one…

Anne on November 13th, 2008

What charity organization receives all these new items and how are they distributed? I recall plain nighties and maybe an undershirt and light blanket but never anything fancy. If I bought something really special for a shower. I would want to know beforehand if the mother will keep it. Does Allison have enough baby girl stuff? Why bother with a shower, just donate to charity.

Anne on November 13th, 2008

The majority of us are not rich and when we go or have a baby shower, it is because we buy things for the baby. I have no intention of buying baby gifts that I personally select for the mothers in need and then have them donated to charity. Why bother having a baby shower if the mother doesn’t need anything? I donate a lot of clothes and household goods to the needy that I don’t need anymore and that is enough.

nicole on November 14th, 2008

you know… I think it is ridiculous that you all are making such a big deal about the fact that she donated things.. I know for a fact that the gifts she was opening was the gifts that were given to her.. she asked for the gifts her friends would bring to the shower to go to St. jude. She felt funny cause it was a 2nd shower and giving to st. jude is a great cause… they got lots of presents and both huggies and babyplus in the end were able to give over 5,500 to the hospital…

as for the gift bags… it might no the typical.. but these are companies that coudl not advertise necc. in other ways and they want celebs to have their product and hopefully buy more.. you would not be complaining if you got one… and you can win one life and style is giving one away.. and it is actually well worth over 2,000 they were just being modest!!!!!

Melody Glover on November 14th, 2008

Congrates on having a baby girl. Hope everything goes well with you and ur family. ur fan Melody.

Nancy on November 17th, 2008

God bless Ali for having respect for her future baby by not naming them something ‘original’(aka:stupid) like ‘Apple’ or ‘Sunday’

I appreciate a mom who doesn’t want her kid to be beaten up in the schoolyard.

Nina on December 4th, 2008

Hey CBB staff! I was watching The Ellen Show this morning and Alison was on it and I THINK SHE WENT INTO LABOR!!!!!!!!!!!! or at least false labor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mbf on January 18th, 2009

She didn’t “call out” anyone in particular (that’s why that partis not in ” “), the writer of the article was the one who used Apple and Honor as examples.

Backlash like this is why some people don’t bother giving to charity anymore. Why not bother the people who sell pictures of their babies and then pocket the cash?

T on March 17th, 2009

There’s a difference between “unique”, “creative” and “pretentious.”

Props to Ali for knowing the difference.

Barbara on October 21st, 2009

Actually it’s quite common to donate items when having a second baby shower. My daughter has somewhat of a unique middle name for the general American culture – Shoshanah. Although this may seem strange to some it’s actually a traditional Hebrew name meaning Rose or Flower. Sometimes certain name that may seem strange to us actually have a background. An example of this would be Beyonce. Her name may seem different/unique, but it’s actually her mother’s maiden name. Also these are Hollywood/showbiz kids. When they go to school with their different names their school/classmates will have different names also. In for your information Joaquin is not an odd name. It’s actually the Spanish form of Joachim (Hebrew), Jacob in English. He was named this because they were living in Puerto Rico at the time of his birth I believe. Also there are plenty of kids that were born during the late 60′s who have “Hippie” names and went to school with other kids with “Hippie” names.

Jesssica on December 4th, 2011

Good for Alli for donating all the stuff it just shows that even though she is a celebrity she is not high & mighty & expecting to be given everything! & as far as the baby names I think Celebs get the idea in their head that because they r famous their kid will be too so they have to have a more original name… traditional is good & so is creative but their is such a thing as crossing the the line “Apple”, “Honor” & even “Blanket” are all examples of crossing that line! I feel for those children having to suffer because of their parebnts stupidity…..