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Say cheese! Model Kirsty Hume, actor and musician husband Donovan Leitch and daughter Violet Jean, 5, pose for a photo at a Ferragamo event to benefit the L’Aquila earthquake victims.
The event was held Tuesday evening at the Ferragamo boutique in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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When Nia Vardalos began trying for a baby, like so many women, infertility caught her off guard. She left no stone unturned in her quest for motherhood, either, including an unsuccessful attempt at surrogacy. “It didn’t work for me,” she tells the Boston Herald. “Can you believe it? Nothing worked. I tried everything.” Even traditional adoption proved problematic; For four long years Nia says she was “on every list, for every country.”
“I was trying to adopt an infant in the States and it fell through. Over and over again.”
After taking a break from her career as an actress and writer to deal with what she calls the end of her “10-year battle with infertility,” Nia found adoptuskids.org, which helps arrange foster adoptions. “These two women, social workers, came into our lives,” she recalls, and their optimism was infectious. “They just said, ‘This is going to happen. There are 129,000 kids who are legally free for adoption.’”
“That’s when I went, ‘I’m going to be a parent. This is going to happen.’”
Eighteen months ago, her now almost 4-year-old daughter arrived and the family of three has never looked back. Nia declines the opportunity to name her preschooler, explaining that she and husband Ian Gomez are “trying to give her a shot at anonymity.”
“It was just the most amazing process. All of a sudden our daughter walked in our house, and she looked up at me like, ‘What’s for lunch?’“
Source: Boston Herald
– Missy
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– Danielle
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A star in the making? Stella Doreen McDermott removes her shades and gives the waiting paparazzi — and proud papa Dean — her best look while out and about on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The pair, along with mom Tori Spelling, were arriving at Hansen’s Cakes to choose Stella’s birthday treat — baby girl will turn one on Tuesday!
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Stella wears Baby Bloch Baby Duo Flats in Hot Pink & Black ($50) and Pea Soup’s Velvet Bowtie Pinch Clip in Hot Pink ($7.25).
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Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell‘s twins may only be five months old, but their personalities are starting to show through — especially their sense of humor.
“They’re really developing their own, very specific personas,” the Ugly Betty star told PEOPLE at the Dior Beauty Luncheon Wednesday at the Shangri-La Hotel in Santa Monica. “They’re starting to think that things are hilarious, like they’re noticing the dogs as being anything other than furniture. The dogs were play-fighting the other day and they thought that was hysterical.”
Rebecca’s three pooches — Taco, Better, and Bim — aren’t the only things the girls, Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip, giggle at. The parents’ bowling skills are apparently laughable as well.
“Jerry and I went bowling last weekend and we put them in their infant seats right in the front so that they could watch us, and they thought it was hilarious,” she said. “It probably was. They were laughing at my score. Like, ‘Mommy can’t knock down any! It’s so funny!’”
The twins, who were born in December, are the first children for Rebecca, 36, and Jerry, 34. Since their arrival, Rebecca has become no stranger to the exhaustion that being a new mom brings.
“Sometimes I’m so tired, I look down at what I’m wearing, and if it’s comfortable enough to sleep in, I don’t even make it into my pajamas,” said the actress. “I’m looking down, and I’m like, ‘T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night. Sorry, Jerry!’”
Source: PEOPLE
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Ana Ortiz — and baby! — pose with Ugly Betty co-star Vanessa Williams at the listening party for Vanessa’s new album, The Real Thing, on Wednesday evening at Greenhouse in NYC.
Due late next month with her baby girl, Ana, 38, has narrowed down her list of names!
“We have a short list I’m going to walk into the hospital with. And then I figure when I see her, [we’ll know],” she says. “I have my favorite. My husband has his favorite. He gets the last name so I get the first name. I feel like that’s fair.”
A solo shot of Ana is below!
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During a Wednesday night performance Bobby Brown, 40, announced the birth of his third son and fifth child overall. “I just had a baby,” he told fans assembled at the Rok nightclub in Las Vegas. “Four days ago – my son Cassius.”
Baby boy is the first child together for Bobby and his girlfriend of two years, manager Alicia Etheridge. Cassius joins Bobbi Kristina, 16, Bobby’s daughter with ex-wife Whitney Houston, at home along with Landon, LaPrincia, and Bobby Jr., his children from previous relationships.
The pregnancy was announced in February.
Source: TMZ
– Missy
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