In these modern times, you would expect giving birth to be a straightforward and nearly painless experience with little danger. However, that’s not always the case, and things can go wrong that are beyond anyone’s control. These celebrities all had difficult, dangerous pregnancies and birth experiences that could have resulted in their deaths.
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McDonald won a Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday in the Broadway play,Lady Day,which was broadcast, with critical acclaim, on HBO earlier this year.
Swenson and McDonald married in 2012 and thought they were done being parents to young kids. She is mom to 15-year old daughter Zoe Madeline from a previous marriage and he is dad to sons, 13-year old Bridger and 10-year old Sawyer also from a previous marriage.
The Fader published an informative news story recently about how celebrity children are helping to spawn a booming industry for couture kids clothing. It was a topic we’ve blogged about here.
The insightful article also explored the world of Instagram baby swag moms who outfit their children in fashionable chic clothing, and get famous doing so.
We’ve blogged about that trendy phenomena too as discussed before here.
Still, it was great to see the piece quoted an author who validated a concern I have with those baby swag Tumblr and IG pages:
In Kids and Branding in a Digital World, published last year the media theorist Barrie Gunter argues that the success of designer diffusion lines “play[s] on the idea that parents are the source of earliest social learning for their kids,” thereby encouraging parents to project their own brand valuations onto their children. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as Gunter hypothesized, unless children become “overly sensitised to a need to be seen as trendy and fashionable and where self-identity is centrally defined in terms of commercial brand associations.”
One small correction: The Fader piece states that luxury brands started getting into the children’s market beginning in 2010. But on the contrary, beginning in 2008, we began posting a biennial most expensive baby clothes list and Gucci, Chanel and Dior were on it back then too.
Big brands been in the rich babies game.
I did appreciate the inclusion of Australian-based designer Winnie Aoki who dresses Blue Ivy and other celebrity kids in her 5-figure costing originals that each take 300 hours for Aoki to complete.
Aoki, the site pens, was
responsible for the $2,000 dress Blue Ivy wore to her grandmother’s birthday, specializes in kid couture. Aoki crafts dresses from confectionery layers of tulle, sequins, and luxury fabrics under the label Mischka Aoki, named after her own 8-year-old daughter. The dresses, which can take up to 300 hours to craft, frequently come with five-digit price tags. According to her website, Aoki started the brand after she realized there weren’t any clothing options “good enough for her daughter”; for her, “clothes represent style and luxury at the same time.” While it may have been difficult to locate high-end designer clothing for children in 2008, when Mischka was born, the line’s explosive popularity — Aoki has dressed not just Blue Ivy, but North, Penelope Disick, and Suri — is an indicator of the steadily increasing desirability of luxury children’s wear.
It was a well written and researched article. You should check it out here!
Bryant shared photos of some of the sights that she is enjoying on the big island.
And a couple of weeks ago, on the way home from the Adele concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, she enjoyed a nice foot massage to soothe her achy pregnancy ankles.
“#Adele #Concert #Prego#TinyAnkles #BigBelly #PregoProblems#AcidReflux #SpriteBurp #FootMassageThx baby! ” she captioned the photo of Kobe rivaling Jay-Z for the best celeb hubby.
She also shared photos from the concert.
The former high school sweethearts are parents to 10-year old daughter Gianna and 13-year old daughter Natalia. Baby #3 is certainly a blessing because Vanessa suffered a miscarriage loss in between giving birth to her two daughters when she had an ecoptic pregnancy in 2005.
Kim Kardashian West is on vacation in Mexico with her children Saint West and North West.
She and her 3-year old daughter wore matching nude bikinis.
The family was trending in social media this week.
Kim showed off her 70 lb weight loss since having her second child by sticking with a strict Atkins diet.
Very fun pics.
Photos: Starcast, YouTube screen grab
Angela Simmons took her followers behind the scenes to a recent maternity shoot she did, perhaps promoting the next season of WE TV‘s Growing up Hip Hop because she tagged each photo #GUHH2.
“Fun day of shooting !!!” she captioned the last of a few photos of the Run’s House alum in gorgeous couture flowy pieces set in a studio. “So many more to come.”
Alright now! We previously posted about how the business mogul has elevated the maternity fashion game for celebs and it looks like she isn’t stopping. Check out her IG for more inspiration.
BTS from today !!! ? #GUHH2 Stylist : @bryonjavar Hairstylist : @maishaoliver Mua: @melissahibbert
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Actress Kerry Washington put off filming her hit show Scandal while pregnant because it was challenging hiding her bump on set during her first pregnancy.
And now Grey’s Anatomy alum actress Katherine Heigl is experiencing the deme thing while filming new legal drama, Doubt.
The Knocked Up star is expecting her third child and admitted to InStyle magazine that finding ways to disguise the fact she’s pregnant has started to become very difficult.
“We’re working really hard to try to hide it, and it’s a challenge, because every day my body changes a little bit more,” she said. “We started out with really high hopes of, like, fitted, pencil skirts, and those really great Victoria Beckham dresses, and that became impossible pretty quickly.”
That’s a great endorsement for VickyB, one of our alums.
First time mom-to-be Tika Sumpter looked radiant in white while attending the Chicago premiere of her new Michelle & Barack Obama love story movie, Southside With You. The gorgeous and talented actress walked the red carpet and posed alongside her co-star Parker Sawyer who plays Barack and executive producer John Legend.
This movie could be the breakout role for the Gossip Girl alum who, up until now, has been known for supporting roles alongside Kevin Hart in the Ride Along movies or other small screen roles. She also stars on the OWN Network hit show The Haves and Have Nots.
The film is a fictional portrayal of the first date of the president and First Lady back in 1989 when President Obama was a Harvard Law Student and a community organizer and Michelle was an associate in a big Chicago law firm. And from watching the trailer, we must say that Sumpter got inflection down pack. It was part of her plan.
“I wanted to make sure you heard inflections of Michelle,” she told Nylon magazine in an August feature. “I studied every word, how she curved her tongue, how she kind of sings when she talks.” The result is a carefully drawn and recognizable portrait of Michelle Robinson, an ambitious and whip-smart lawyer who would go on to become one of the world’s most famous women, Nylon summarized.
It did well at the Sundance Film festival earlier this year. The film wasn’t sanctioned by the White House. The film’s screenwriter and producer Richard Tanne said the White House was “aware and slightly puzzled” by the existence of the film, but officials there did verify locations and the menu of their first date.
This is just but one of a plethora of untold stories of historic African American figures yet to hit the big or small screen. Sumpter also jumped in early as one of the producers .
“The great part about being a producer is you’re in the room when decisions are made,” she added, especially given that good roles are so hard to come by for black female actresses. “Usually, there aren’t any black people in the room…I’m in a place where I want to create because these characters aren’t being written for me.”
And she plans to do more.
“I have stories I want to tell,” she says. “My thing is making sure women know how dope they are, regardless of what the story is.”
She didn’t reveal who her boyfriend and father of her child is to the interviewer but did say he is also a lawyer who is mature, and representing the Obamas in her new film, Sumpter says they are “Relationship goals.” Sumpter also accidentally revealed she is having a baby girl on a radio show while promoting the film.
The New York Times did a write up recently too, revealing that, to prepare the actress worked with a vocal coach to master Mrs. Obama’s speech patterns, and watched videos to see how she walked and carried herself.
“Once we started rehearsing,” said Mr. Sawyers, “I was like, oh, that’s it! She nailed it.”
In one scene, Michelle talks about the racism she encountered at Princeton and Harvard — some subtle, some less so — and how, even at her current firm, she has to navigate between “Planet Black and Planet White.” Ms. Sumpter admitted that there were parallels in her own field. “You see the differences in the way certain movies are treated,” she said. “But once you come to terms with that, you have to go, O.K., I’m not going to allow that to hold me back. Which is what I love about Michelle. She never allowed the color of her skin and all the things she was up against to keep her from breaking through.”
A lot of that confidence came from Mrs. Obama’s family, just as it did for Ms. Sumpter, who is expecting her own daughter this fall. “Because of my mom, I never felt less than,” she said, looking back on her early days trying to make it in the business. “I never came into this world thinking, I’m a brown-skinned girl going to Hollywood. I was always like, I’m talented and I’m beautiful and I’m smart. Why wouldn’t you want me?”
The movie opens this Friday, August, 26 nationwide. Date night movie for sure!
Photos: Miramax, Twitter, Starcast
On the cover of a tabloid or briefly captured on the news, the first ladies of the United States attract a certain level of media fascination. The markers of first ladies’ legacies vary, ranging from the lasting humanitarian efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt to the cultural phenomenon that was Jacqueline Lee Kennedy.
While each presidential wife to occupy the White House leverages her influence toward the causes of her choosing, the team at MooseRoots used data from the U.S. Social Security Administration to identify one interesting — and unintentional — aftereffect of their tenure: a general decline in the popularity of their first names. A trend that becoming first lady had little effect on.
By using the popularity of a first lady’s name the year she entered the White House as the base year, the MooseRoots team was able to compare the frequency of babies given the name in the 10 years preceding and following her arrival at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
To be fair, these instances appear to be on the more extreme end of the spectrum. To gain a more holistic picture of the trend, we combined the popularity data for the last 15 first ladies’ names.
Ten years before calling the White House home, first ladies’ names were 57 percent more popular than upon their arrival. While the average drop in popularity is steepest several years before candidacies are declared and first wives receive country-wide notoriety, the downward trend continues over time.
On average, the names of first ladies dropped 29 percentage points in frequency 10 years after their arrival at the White House.
When segmenting the first ladies by party affiliation, we see a slightly different story for Republicans versus Democrats. The names of Republicans started off higher but ended up being less popular in the long run. The opposite occurred for first ladies of the Democratic party.
Against expectations, the notoriety of first ladies doesn’t positively influence the popularity of their names. Perhaps changing tastes is the predominant factor at play. The prestige of a first lady doesn’t seem to change the path of a name that’s deemed out of vogue, no matter how popular she and her husband are among Americans.
“Being a mom and an elite athlete is difficult, but it’s very rewarding. I wouldn’t have it any other way,” said brand new Rio Olympics 100 meter hurdles silver medalist, Nia Ali, one year after a surprise pregnancy sidetracked her professional track career.
The 27-year old and her teammates gold medalist Brianna Rollins and bronze medalist Kriari Castlin swept the podium. It was the first sweep of any category in US Track & Field history.
The road to Rio was bumpy for the new mom who only have birth to her son Titus Maximus in summer of 2015.
Way before welcoming her first child, she was shaken when, in 2009, while a sophomore at USC, her dad killed himself in a murder suicide. He shot the woman he was involved with in front of her 11-year old daughter before turning the gun on himself. The tragedy messed her up in academics and athletics.
But she overcame it and didn’t let an unplanned pregnancy sidetrack her for long either.
After taking a year off from competition following the birth of her son, the Philly native returned to win the 2016 World Indoor Championships and successfully defend her gold medal. After winning, she carried her son on the victory lap. Now, he is an expected and welcome fixture on the track after each of mom’s wins.
Young Titus was a blessing and pregnancy was not career suicide. Ali was determined to not make it so. As IAAF reported:
“It’s one of those things when you know it’s great”, said Ali, who always wanted to have a lot of kids, especially coming from a family with 25 siblings. “But in our sport, it’s considered a career suicide. I was 26 and I wanted to make the best of it. And immediately, I started looking forward to defending my world indoor title in 2016.”
After maintaining her usual training regimen for the first four months of pregnancy, Ali went back from Los Angeles to her family in Philadelphia and decided to relax.
“I talked to Jasmine Chaney (the US 400m hurdler), who’d just had a baby, and she told me: you should take it all in. I followed the advice, as I knew once I got back, there was going to be some serious training, and I wanted to be ready for it.”
They also wrote about her excellent support system:
The now twice world indoor champion was thrilled that her son Titus was actually there to witness her triumph.
“I don’t take him to the track too often when I train, because I haven’t mastered that whole ‘focusing when he’s around’ thing,” she laughed. “I get into a parent mode too quickly. Unless my mom or his father (400m hurdler Michael Tinsley) are there, I can’t focus.
“I love my son, love coming back home after long days. It puts what I do on the track in a perspective, and I have an amazing support system that helps make it happen. I can’t take the full credit.”
And that support system was right there in the stands witnessing Ali make history.
Good stuff! Congrats, mama!
Photo: Getty, screen shot, Wiki Commons
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