birth-related stories
Posted Oct 26th 2008 8:29AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Celebrities, Reality-Free
How appropriate!
Amy Poehler has given birth to her first child today, a baby boy. He is now officially known as Saturday Poehler Arnett. No, just kidding. The baby's name hasn't been announced yet. But considering Amy's connection to
Saturday Night Live, it's just perfect that her baby came on Saturday.
According to sources, Amy was in labor all day. Yeah, that's right. Instead of rehearsing for the show, she was in the hospital with her legs up, sucking on ice chips and generally concentrating on her breathing and listening to soothing music.
Seriously, when you consider that Amy was doing that
Sarah Palin rap just a week ago, you realize how far along she was and still doing the comedy business. Kudos to Amy! However, don't expect to see Baby Mama Amy back on
SNL too soon. She's taking a well deserved maternity leave.
Posted Aug 9th 2007 6:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: American Idol, Watercooler Talk, Contestants
Antoria Gillan really, really wants to be on
American Idol. At nine months pregnant, she was auditioning for the show in Dallas earlier this week. Maybe it was all that standing around that contestants have to do... but Antoria went into labor just before it was her turn to sing for the judges. Amazingly, she ignored the contractions and sang her heart out. Then she went directly to the hospital and gave birth to a baby boy she named Jamil Labarron Idol McCowan. He weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces.
First of all: good for her for incorporating her unique labor experience into his name in a tasteful way. Second of all: you go girl! Apparently it was worth the pain and suffering, because Antoria got the go-ahead to Hollywood! I'm sure Fox got it all on camera, so expect to see Antoria and baby Jamil next January during auditions highlights.
Posted Jul 30th 2007 12:21PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
Trista and Ryan Sutter are parents to a baby boy! The couple met on
The Bachelorette in 2002 and, unlike any other relationship on that series, these two stayed together.
According to
Celebrity Baby Blog, the little boy was born via c-section on Friday at a hospital in Vail, Colorado, which is where the couple lives. Trista had some complications late in her pregnancy, as she was suffering from both preeclampsia and gestational diabetes, and their son was born a month before his due date. An official statement from the couple says "everyone's doing great".
Trista and Ryan named their son Maxwell Alston. He was a 5 pounds, 3 ounces.
Posted Feb 21st 2007 5:50PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Celebrities
People magazine is reporting that Marcia Cross gave birth to twin girls yesterday. According to the magazine, the twins are fraternal and their names are Eden and Savannah. No word on birth weight or any of those vital stats but a rep for Cross says mom and babies are "all doing well."
Marcia Cross plays Bree on
Desperate Housewives. At the age of 44, she became pregnant with twins. Cross was
put on bed rest in January, which put a slight hitch in the giddy up for
DH, but they powered through by filming in her own bedroom.
When her pregnancy was
originally announced back in September, her due date was in April. Sometimes celebrities like to fudge their due dates to keep the paparazzi off their backs, but it seems as though Marcia's two girls are somewhat premature (not surprising when twins are involved!).
Posted Dec 30th 2006 12:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Documentary
A few weeks ago, National Geographic aired a two-hour special titled In the Womb: Animals that showed the development of dogs, elephants and dolphins while in utero through ultra sound imagery, CGI and visual effects. The special focused on, among other things, how these animals develop skills for survival while still inside their mothers.
On January 14 at 8pm, National Geographic will return to the womb with In the Womb: Multiples. The special will use 4d imagery to and CGI effects to show how twins and other muliple birth siblings develop bonds while in utero, and how those bonds continue after they're born.
Posted Dec 19th 2006 8:37AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities
I normally don't pick up the baby bump and failed marriage stories because, well, do you really need another voice in the blogosphere with two cents about the celebrity circle of life? Probably not. Yet, I couldn't resist this one because, well, who knew that 62 year-old Tambor was expecting a little bundle of trouble?
Tambor and his wife Kasia welcomed daughter Eve to the world on December 10th. Jeffrey Tambor's most recent television outing -
Twenty Good Years - with John Lithgow went south about as fast as you'd expect a network sitcom starring two AARP card holders to, but his genius card was handed out a long time ago with series like
Larry Sanders and
Arrested Development under his belt. Tambor and Kasia also have a two-year old son, and get this, his 31 year-old daughter has a son the same age. So, Tambor's children and grandchild are of the same generation. Chaplin-esque, isn't it?
Posted Nov 7th 2006 3:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
Actress Kellie Martin gave birth to a baby girl over the weekend. She and her husband, Keith Christian, named their daughter Margaret Heather Christian, but they're already calling her "Maggie". Reps for the couple say Maggie weighed in at 8 pounds and was 21 inches long.
Kellie Martin, 31, is probably best known for her role as Becca Thatcher on
Life Goes On during the early 1990s. She also had a memorable guest stint on
ER a few years ago as Lucy Knight, who met an unfortunate end in a terrific episode.
Posted Oct 10th 2006 2:32PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, Watercooler Talk
Okay sportsfans, you may have gone too far. Over the weekend, a couple in Biloxi, Mississippi named their newborn son ESPN Montana Real. That would be 'ESPN' after the sports network and 'Montana' after legendary football player, Joe Montana. Rusty and Leann Real are not the first parents to name their kid ESPN. There's an Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan. Come on! That has to be funny for, like, five minutes. Right?!? By the way, the husband picked out the name.
Would you name your child after anything (a character, actor, show, network) on television? If so, what?
Posted Oct 9th 2006 8:05AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Scrubs, Celebrities
According to
People.com,
Scrubs star Christa Miller has given birth to a boy. It's the third child for Miller and her husband,
Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence. People reports that baby Henry Vanduzer Lawrence arrived at 12:05 this morning. Henry joins siblings Charlotte, 6, and William, 3.
On
Scrubs, Christa, 42, plays Jordan Sullivan, wife of Dr. Perry Cox. Her pregnancy was written into
Scrubs, which is being filmed right now but won't appear on the NBC schedule until the new year.
Posted Oct 7th 2006 6:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Documentary
Tomorrow, the UK's Channel Five will broadcast
Five's Birth Night Live, a two-hour special during which one woman will give birth, or so the creators of the program are hoping. This is the first time a live birth will have been captured on British television, but while Channel Five and host Gabby Logan insist they'll remain unobtrusive, the series has caught a lot of flak from experts who insist the mother should be in a calm and unobtrusive environment, a situation they feel is impossible with a camera crew filming every moment. The folks behind the special say they'll withdraw if any problems arise for the mother or child, but that wasn't much assurance to those who feel they shouldn't be there in the first place. Perhaps one of out UK readers can fill me in on this, but I assume the mothers have to give permission before they can appear on camera? Whether or not you agree with this seems like a moot point if the one giving birth has agreed ahead of time.
Posted Jun 30th 2006 8:10AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Law and Order, Celebrities
As
we reported earlier this week,
Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay gave birth to a boy on Tuesday, June 28th. We've now learned that she and her husband, actor Peter Hermann, named their son 'August'. He was born by c-section a week after his due date. Baby August weighed in at 10 pounds, 9 ounces.
A rep tells People magazine, "Mother and baby are doing wonderfully. She is ecstatic--over the moon."
Her website also has the announcement, but no photo.
Posted Jun 28th 2006 10:10PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Law and Order, Celebrities
Congratulations to Mariska Hargitay! She and her husband, actor Peter Hermann, welcomed a baby boy to this world yesterday. He was a big fella... weighing in at 10 pounds, 9 oz (geez!). The baby was born by c-section one week after his due date. Mariska will be on maternity leave when
Law & Order: SVU begins shooting its fall season. Her temporary replacement is
Connie Nielsen.
No word yet on a name. Hopefully she'll update her
very groovy website with a name and a photo (so we can see whether he inherited her enviable jawline).
[Via
Celebrity Baby Blog]
Posted Apr 18th 2006 8:49PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
Former
Dawson's Creek actress Katie Holmes gave birth to a baby girl today, according to
People magazine. Katie and her fiance,
Tom Cruise, named the little girl Suri, which means 'red rose' in Persian and 'princess' in Hebrew.
Their
daughter was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 20 inches long.
Coincidentally, Brooke Shields also
gave birth to a baby girl today. Her daughter's name is Grier.
Posted Mar 20th 2006 7:28AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV Royalty, The Apprentice, Celebrities
Donald Trump announced on the morning program
Imus In The Morning, er, this morning, that his wife
has given birth to a boy, though no name seems to have been chosen yet. This is the first child Trump and Melania have
together, though this is not the first for Donald.
The question now is, would Trump
date him?
Posted Feb 16th 2006 9:17AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: CBS, Celebrities
Danny Pino, who plays Det. Scotty
Valens on CBS'
Cold Case, became a father this week. His wife, Lily, gave birth to the couple's first child on
Wednesday.
They named their son Luca Daniel Pino. He was a healthy-sized baby, weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces.
A spokesperson for the new family says everyone is doing well.
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