Celebrity Baby Blog /

Gisele Bündchen: Secrets of a Pregnant Supermodel

Courtesy Harper’s Bazaar UK

No woman likes to see a supermodel reclaim her world-famous figure just six weeks after giving birth, modeling the latest looks with nary a tummy bulge. But lucky for all the mere mortals out there, Gisele Bündchen is sharing her secrets.

Bündchen and her husband Tom Brady welcomed their son Benjamin Rein just seven months ago, and the model, 30, says she owes her body to three things: kung fu, meditation and breastfeeding.

She says she practiced kung fu two weeks before giving birth, yoga three times a week throughout her pregnancy, and meditated every day.

“It prepared me mentally and physically,” Bündchen tells the UK version of Harper’s Bazaar in their September issue, on newsstands Aug. 5.

“It’s called ‘labour,’ not ‘holiday’ for a reason, and I knew that. You want to go into the most intense physical experience of your life unprepared? That doesn’t make any sense to me. I wasn’t expecting someone else to get the baby out of me.”
Read More

Vanessa Marcil: Kassius Is ‘His Own Little Man Now’

Neilson Barnard/Getty

Megan Fox isn’t the only new step-parent for 8-year-old Kassius Lijah.

Mom Vanessa Marcil is a newlywed, too, to CSI: New York star Carmine Giovinazzo. Fresh on the heels of her July 11 wedding, the actress is also preparing for a return to General Hospital — with the blessing of her biggest fan.

“Kassius is his own little man now,” she notes in a new interview with TV Guide Magazine.

“He’s in school. He has his friends. His whole life used to revolve around me but now it’s, ‘Mom, you’re so annoying!’”
Read More

Alicia Minshew Keeping the Focus on Willow

Michael Simon/Startraks

She’s played Kendall Hart on All My Children since 2002, but Alicia Minshew made a clean break from the character  during her recent maternity leave with daughter Willow Lenora, 9 months.

“I hate to admit this because it’s a terrible thing, but I didn’t [watch the show],” she reveals in a new interview with Smashing Interviews.

Not only was the actress busy acclimating to the chaotic sleep schedule of life with a newborn, she wanted to soak up every waking moment with Willow, her first child with husband Richie Herschenfeld.

“I decided I kind of just wanted to distance myself,” Minshew, 36, explains, “and just focus on my child.”
Read More