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Katherine Heigl Betters Herself for Naleigh

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Motherhood has brought out the best of Katherine Heigl, for the Killers star says she’s shed her worst habits since welcoming daughter Naleigh, 18 months.

“[It] used to be smoking but I quit,” Heigl, 31, tells FOX News, “so now it’s just cursing but I’ve curtailed that because my daughter is in a mimicking phase where she’ll repeat everything I say, and that did happen once before.”

In her upcoming film One for the Money, Heigl portrays a bounty hunter and she says she has no plans to walk away from edgier roles now that she’s a mom.

“I’d hope to never do anything that I would be ashamed for her to see, but now that I’ve got a child I’m not going to only do children’s films,” she explains.
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M.I.A. Says Life Struggles Are Inevitable for Ikhyd

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In a new interview with Complex magazine, M.I.A. says that son Ikhyd Edgar Arular, 15 months, is already enjoying a childhood vastly different than her own.

“I had to spend ages on stupid s–t, like getting to know about racism on a really street level, growing up in the projects,” the singer/rapper, 34, explains. “I think he’s gonna have it in a different way.”

To that end, Ikhyd is currently living life at opposite “extremes,” staying with mom at his maternal grandmother’s house which M.I.A. describes as “the size of somebody’s closet in California.”

Dad Benjamin Bronfman, by contrast, comes from a family at “the complete opposite end of the spectrum” according to M.I.A., who feels that those differences are “where [Ikhyd's] lessons are gonna be learned.”

“I want him to grow up here and spend as much time as possible with his grandma to learn the things I learned growing up in this house,” she continues. “He needs to hang with everybody and meet people and find out what they need and find out what the problems are and what the solutions are.”
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Around the Web…

Some stories for your Thursday afternoon:

• One British woman tells the story of her 20-day labor — Daily Mail
• Five ways to treat diaper rash naturally — lilSugar
• How do you ‘break up’ with your pediatrician? — AlphaMom
• Several states plan to establish uniform standards for teaching — ParentDish
• A study claims children with burger-heavy diets may have a higher asthma risk — MSNBC