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| APRIL | | april 21, 2008 | | |  | | All hail the Queen! Elizabeth’s Cate Blanchett welcomed her third son, Ignatius Martin, on April 13.
Cue the bottom screen scroll: CNN's Kiran Chetry delivered a baby boy on April 17. | | | | |  | | Rumor alert: Newly engaged couple Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz were reported by OK!, US Weekly, and People to be expecting a baby in October. Pete denied the news to MTV, saying, “There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood. This is all news to me.” Ashlee was a bit more vague telling MTV’s TRL, “Some things, you want to keep personal and I think that when people deny [reports], it's probably because it's something they want to keep personal.”
Several outlets are reporting Tobey Maguire and wife Jennifer Meyer are expecting their second child. | | | | |  | | While Minnie Driver doesn’t want to find out the sex of her child due in August, she has been reported as saying she thinks it’s a girl. In other news, the baby daddy she’s been keeping mum about has been speculated to be musician Craig Zolezzi.
On Regis and Kelly, Desperate Housewives' Kyle MacLachlan announced that he and his wife are expecting a boy. | | | | | | |  | | Angelina Jolie was in Washington to discuss Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which she explained will be "a center that helps raise awareness and coordinate all the various efforts of people working towards education for children of conflict." During her discussion on the Iraq education policy, the pregnant mother told People Magazine she "felt [the baby] kicking suddenly."
Mary Kate Olsen attended an event for New Yorkers for Children, who, according to their website, develop “programs that make a difference in the lives of young people including college scholarships, tutoring programs, mentoring, and networking opportunities.” | | | | |  | | It’s a family affair! Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus hosted the CMT awards on April 14.
While supporting husband Keith Urban at the CMT awards, Nicole Kidman told Access Hollywood, “I’ve had severe morning sickness. Waiting for the third trimester. Everyone says that is hard work."
Mama Gwyneth Paltrow graces the May cover of Vogue and tells the mag she suffered baby blues after her second pregnancy. “I felt really out of my body. I felt really disconnected. I felt really down... I felt pessimistic.”
During a concert at NY’s Queens college, Harlow’s mama Nicole Richie stood backstage as her boyfriend Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden told the crowd, “You know, no matter how many beautiful girls there are in this audience, I must confess that three months ago, I had a little baby girl, and she's my one and only true love."
New mom Halle Berry has her next job lined up. The Oscar winning actress will star in and produce Frankie and Alice, the story of a woman with multiple personalities. | | | | |
Have some news to deliver? Let Us Know. | | | april 7, 2008 | | |  | | Fresh out of the oven! Chef and Today show contributor, Giada De Laurentiis, welcomed a baby girl, Jade Marie, on March 29. The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom host and Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold and her husband Roby Marshall’s family has been doing some growing of their own. The couple welcomed their fourth son on April 1. | | | | |  | | Thomas Beatie will give birth to his daughter in July. After having a sex change, he shared with Oprah, “I actually opted not to do anything to my reproductive organ because I wanted to have a child one day. I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am.” | | | | |  | | Jessica Alba was showered on April 6 by her manager’s wife at the Ever After Teahouse in Los Angeles. The baby is rumored to be a girl. | | | | | | |  | | On April 13, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart will host Night of Too Many Stars, a night of comedy benefiting Autism Education. (April is Autism Awareness Month.)
Idol Gives Back will air April 9, benefiting six charities worldwide, including Save the Children. Superstars such as Reese Witherspoon, Fergie, Miley Cyrus, and Brad Pitt will appear on the American Idol fundraiser that brought in $76 million last year. | | | | |  | | David Charvet and Brooke Burke announced their four-week-old son’s name on her blog. “We played with so many different names, and both loved Shaya the most. It means God's gift in Hebrew.” | | | | |  | | Madonna has beat The King! The mother of three now has more Top 10 hits than Elvis Presley. Her new song 4 Minutes is her 37th Top 10 hit. “There are no short cuts to being Madonna," she said in an interview with Elle, one of the many magazine covers she graces this month. "It’s all about hard work. There is no easy way. If you want to know how I look like I do, it’s diet and exercise and constantly being careful."
Upcoming E! reality star Denise Richards graces the cover of Shape magazine. In the article, she tells the fitness mag of her two daughters, “I'll never talk about weight around them. And they'll never hear me say, 'Mommy's feeling fat today.' That kind of attitude just makes young girls grow up to be dissatisfied with their bodies.”
Kathie Lee Gifford is returning to morning television on the Today show starting April 7. She will co-host the show’s fourth hour.
Model Mama Elle Macpherson has signed as the new face of Revlon. |
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