Celebrity Baby Blog / Parenting

Charlize Theron: My Dogs Help with My Baby

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It was love at first sight, says Charlize Theron, for her four-legged best friends and her son Jackson, whom she adopted in March.

“It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed,” the Oscar winner, 36, tells Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday’s show. “From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love.”

Theron happily considers her brood to be her family – no matter what others may think. She calls her dogs “her boys.”

They are, she says, “Berkley, a terrier mutt, and he’s actually the pacifier thief … He’ll just lay there with the [baby's] pacifier in his mouth,” and a pit bull named Blue, who help keeps the actress running on schedule.
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Alanis Morissette: I Will Breastfeed Until My Son Weans

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Amidst all the breastfeeding controversy, Alanis Morissette has added her voice to the conversation as a pro attachment parent.

In a new interview, the singer reveals she is still nursing 16-month-old Ever Imre — and, as of yet, has no plans to stop.

“I breastfeed and I’ll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,” Morissette, 37, tells Access Hollywood.

Her decision, she adds, will provide her son with the stability he needs in his future. “I think it affords the child, when he grows up, to have a lot less therapy to go to,” the first-time mom explains.

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