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With the world premieres of Nine behind them, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban arrive in Sydney, Australia, Friday, with 17-month-old daughter Sunday Rose in tow.
The Aussies are planning to spend their holidays Down Under with their extended families.
 Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas |
Last month, CBB had the pleasure of chatting with Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (author and illustrator respectively) of the popular Fancy Nancy series and they dished on their new book — Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas. We also hosted a well-attended (and super fun!) reading at bookstore and gallery Every Picture Tells a Story, in Santa Monica, where guests got to meet O’Connor and Preiss Glasser in person. Check out the video below!
Now the super, super-fun part: To celebrate the release of their new holiday themed book, we’re giving away autographed copies of Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas to the first 15 CBB readers who email us at giveaway@peoplemag.com. Hurry up and enter!
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| Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas |
Last month, CBB had the pleasure of chatting with Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (author and illustrator respectively) of the popular Fancy Nancy series and they dished on their new book — Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas. We also hosted a well-attended (and super fun!) reading at bookstore and gallery Every Picture Tells a Story, in Santa Monica, where guests got to meet O’Connor and Preiss Glasser in person. Check out the video below!
Now the super, super-fun part: To celebrate the release of their new holiday themed book, we’re giving away autographed copies of Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas to the first 15 CBB readers who email us at giveaway@peoplemag.com. Hurry up and enter!
Click below to check out video from the event and to read the rules!
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While some parents mellow with each subsequent child, Sarah Jessica Parker has found the opposite to be true.
In a new interview with PARADE, the 44-year-old actress says that after son James Wilkie, 7, was born she would “walk up the stairs to his room” if she heard crying. With twins Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, 6 months this week, however, there’s a greater sense of urgency! “Now I’m running up and down the stairs like a lunatic, barely holding on to the banister,” she reveals.
“I don’t think you worry less in general. I think I’m still woken in the middle of the night by some horrible thought that I’ve conjured in my brain. Every time there’s a visit to the pediatrician, I worry. Is everything all right?”
Life as a family of five continues to suit Sarah Jessica and husband Matthew Broderick just fine, with the seamless addition of the twins this summer. “It’s sort of beyond description,” she says. “It’s a very, very lucky, wonderful time in our lives that we have these two darling little girls and we’re very happy.”
Balancing her busy career with her even busier private life is tricky — but doable — and Sarah Jessica is careful to point out that she has help. “I honestly think there are millions and millions of working mothers who have far more demanding days and the rewards are nowhere near what I’ve been given,” she says.
“They don’t have the kind of help that I have if I need it. I’m allowed to be a working mother because frankly, I can leave my child with someone I trust and love and a lot of mothers can’t do that.”
Click below to read about how Sarah Jessica’s style has changed since becoming a mom.
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For actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, playing a mom in Crazy Heart came naturally. Not only is she a real life mom to Ramona, 3, Jean — her character in the film — experiences revelations about motherhood and personal sacrifice at the same time Maggie says she was experiencing them, herself.
“My daughter was almost two when I made the movie and I kind of got to this place where I felt like, ‘I am also me. I am also an actress,’” she explains to Movies Online. “I had this really strong hunger to express something that I hadn’t had for a while when she was a tiny baby.”
Although Maggie filmed Batman and Away We Go in the months after Ramona’s birth, the film shoots were short — 15 days and three days, respectively. Those movies got “a little” of her creative energy, but Crazy Heart “got almost all of it,” she adds.
“When I look at the movie now, I kind of see Jean is really going through a similar thing,” Maggie explains. “I don’t know if that’s just part of the movie inherently or I put it there, but I think for Jean it’s like she’s got this four-year-old who, at least for a big chunk of time, she’s been raising alone.”
“She’s just been trying to do good, trying to be good, trying to manage, trying to manage, trying to manage and I think she just finally says, “I need something for me. I need something that feels good to me and I don’t care if it’s bad for me. It’s better if it’s bad for me.’”
The balance between “what you need in order to be alive” and “what you have to sacrifice for your kids” is “a line every mother walks,” Maggie, 32, feels. “I think if you’re a mother, you know what I mean,” she adds.
Ramona is Maggie’s daughter with husband Peter Sarsgaard. Crazy Heart is in theaters now.
Source: Movies Online
– Missy
 Healthy Child, Healthy World |
Ever since becoming a mom to Harlow and Sparrow, Nicole Richie has been making an effort to make her home as eco-friendly and baby safe as possible — and she’s using Hollywood-approved Healthy Child, Healthy World as her guide.
Written by eco-expert Christopher Gavigan (and husband of Grey’s Anatomy Jessica Capshaw), the book boasts loads of A-list fans including Kate Hudson, Brooke Shields and Michelle Obama. Plus, it’s chock full of easy-to-follow steps and solutions to create a safe, eco-friendly home. Added bonus: Meryl Streep wrote the forward.
CBB had the opportunity to chat with Gavigan about his book and his non-profit organization, Healthy Child, and he had lots to share. Committed to helping parents raise healthy kids in this increasingly toxic world, the author shared his top ten tips for raising your baby green.
Check them out below!
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When Marissa Jaret Winokur recalls her favorite childhood Hanukkah memories, “it was never about presents,” says the actress, 36. “It was about family.”
She’s set on making it the same for Zev Isaac, her 17-month-old son with her husband, writer Judah Miller.
Since Zev joined the brood, “we celebrate Hanukkah with renewed vigor,” says Marissa, who hosted her family’s festivities for the first time in her L.A. home this year.
“Zev will learn a lot of the religious, meaningful things from his dad — and the lighter side from me.”
Take Mom’s high-stakes dreidel game, in which her parents and three siblings up the ante with candy. “We play dreidel like poker!”
Just don’t ask Marissa to make latkes — a holiday must she has yet to master. “I’m good at eating them, not making them. Zev will have his first latkes this year!”
Source: PEOPLE, Holiday issue
– Monica Rizzo
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