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Princess Charlotte Broke the Internet This Week

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Princess Charlotte trended this week when she appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with her parents Duchess Catherine (nee Kate Middleton), dad Prince William and her brother Prince George to watch grandmom Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday parade.

The 13-month old was adorable in a pink dress matching her mom’s Philip Treacy hat at the jubilee event. Her bro, my boy Georgie stood out himself wearing the precise same outfit dad William wore to his uncle Prince Harry’s christening back in 1984. George turns 2 next month.

The youngest princess knows how to work a crowd. She actually waved to the crowd and looked quite comfortable in front of all those people.

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Those royals know how to hold onto an old ceremonial outfit. Both George and Charlotte wore a replica of Williams’ Christening gown. (smile)

h/t Vogue

I think I Might be the Only Kanye West Fan Among my Mommy & Daddy Friends

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Yesterday, I learned that one of my all time favorite rappers, Kanye West, will be coming to my town! I squealed and immediately announced my joy to my Facebook friends only to quickly learn that I was alone in my fandom for Mr. West among my friends of moms, dads and professionals. * hrmph *

Now…granted, I understand.  The famous multi-Grammy-award-winning producer and recording artist is notorious for saying a lot of controversial things (saying President Bush doesn’t like Black people, ). And…he is also infamously known for doing a lot of off-the-wall things (interrupting Taylor Swift‘s Video Music Award Best Female Video acceptance speech, wearing a jacket with a confederate flag on it etc)

But to me, the man is a musical genius and there is a method to his madness, and insanely ginormous ego. I’m capable of looking past all the socially awkward stuff and still dig his beats, rifts, arrangements, clever verses and contiguously catchy and memorable hooks and choruses. I have adored him since “College Dropout” and before even when he sang a hook on one of Jay-Z’s songs.

So there! I’ve come clean!Love him or hate him, I still love his music. I haven’t felt this relieved since I came out as a silent member of the Bey-hive a couple of years ago. (I even reviewed her self-title album Here and Here)

And so now I’m excited to attend his “The Saint Pablo” World Tour concert which will be coming to DC’s Verizon center on September 8, two days after my birthday. How perfect!

I’ve thrown it out there in the universe and  for fam and friends who might want to gift me tickets. (smile)  Also, I’ve nagged all of my connects that work at Verizon. I even pitched it to various news outlets I freelance for occasionally to cover it.

Check out my fab Drake concert review HERE! Huh? huh? huh? Good huh? ha!

I check the blog’s analytics occasionally and we frequently get visitors from Calabasas, California so if you’re watching this Ye or anyone of your fam (old or new), hook a sister up!

Don’t make me have to buy my own ticket! lol! Okay! Glad to get that off my chest!

Back to your regularly scheduled friendly mom blog! lol

EDITED TO ADD: I attended the concert and it was bananas! The Universe must have heard my plea because not only did I get an offer to watch it from the box owned by Verizon itself (yeah, Verizon as in the corporation) but I was accidentally given two tickets so my husband could attend! Yay! And wait, there is more.

While we were on the hunt for drinks before the game, someone randomly gave me free floor tickets. An extra pair they had so I went into the concert with one gifted ticket and before it started, I had 4 tickets in my hands! I did a video about the experience you can see here. I tried to share video clips of the concert but someone on Kanye’s team filed a copyright complaint at YouTube and it was pulled. I was penalized for sharing it on Facebook and Instagram and was sent to FB jail for a few days too. It was all worth it! Yay!

 

Look Back at the 2016 Tony Awards Red Carpet Moments

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This Sunday’s 70th Annual Tony Awards was overshadowed a bit by the news of the horrific shooting inside a nightclub in Orlando Florida the night before it was held at The Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2016 in New York City. Several presenters and award recipients acknowledged the victims as did the host Late Night TV’s James Corden. 

The styles on the red carpet were super glam yet not too over the top. Fitting for the somber’ish mood. We spotted our Bumpwatch alum Jane Kracowski perform a number with her co-star from the play ‘She Loves Me’. Other “Bellyitch Bumpwatch” alums attending the event that we also saw on the red carpet included singer Thalia, models Liya Kebede and Jourdan Dunn  and actresses Keri Russell and Claire Danes.

 

Celebs Who’ve Gotten Backlash over Their Parenting Skills

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Parenting is hard. We all make mistakes.

Fortunately, we can learn from them, adjust and move on.  Imagine if you are a parent and also a celebrity. Your mistakes can turn into a public firestorm. In this era of social media, everyone shares everything with everyone. And then, celebs are papparazi magnets. Before they know it, a wayward teen’s IG share or a photog in the bushes can land them in a bunch of hot water.

I blogged about celebs whose parenting skills have been criticized. Mode followed up with a few more. Check it out:

Check out Celebrities Who’ve Received Parenting Backlash Online

by dailystab at Mode

We Kinda Dig that scary Tenant Agreement ‘Tiger Mom’ Amy Chua Made her Millenial Daughters sign 

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When you’re known as the “Tiger Mom” and you’re a Yale contracts law professor, of course you’re going to draft up a fierce enforceable tenant agreement before you let your adult children co-habitate with you in your swanky Manhattan apartment for the Summer.

We can’t be mad.

Amy Chua, who penned the infamous book “Battle Hym of the Tiger Mom” had some pretty funny, albeit strict, clauses in the contract she made her millennial daughters Sophia and Lulu sign before they moved in.

Chua’s 20- and 23-year old girls are working in NYC for the summer.

Although, she lives in Connecticut full time with her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, Chua said they had saved up their entire life for that apartment.

She was not keen on becoming a “tenant farmer” in her own life, Chua shared in a funny column she penned in the Wall Street Journal. 

The entire family signed the legally-enforceable contract.

Here are the key clauses (we secretly love) that the girls must abide by:

1. To occupy only the junior bedroom.

2. To greet Jed Rubenfeld & Amy Chua with spontaneous joy and gratitude whenever they visit.

3. To make their (joint) bed every day, and not to fight about who does it.

4. To never, ever use the phrase, “Relax—it’s not a big deal.”

5. To always leave all internal doors in the apartment wide open whenever Jed, Amy or any company whatsoever (including relatives) are in the apartment, with an immaculately made bed in full view and no clothing or other junk on the floor of the bedroom in sight.

6. Whenever any guests visit, to come out of the bedroom immediately in a respectable state, greet the guests with enthusiasm, and sit and converse with the guests in the living room for at least 15 minutes.

7. To always be kind to our trusty Samoyeds Coco and Pushkin, who Sophia and Louisa hereby agree have greater rights to the apartment than Sophia and Louisa do, and to walk them to the dog park at least once a day when they visit, within 30 minutes of being asked to do so by Amy.

8. To fill the refrigerator with fresh OJ from Fairway for Jed on days when he is in town.

9. To keep the pillows in the living room in the right place and PLUMPED and to clean the glass table with Windex whenever it is used.

ADDITIONALLY, Sophia and Louisa agree that the above duties and conditions will not be excused even in the event of illness, hangovers, migraines, work crises or mental breakdowns (whether their own or their friends’).

Sophia and Louisa agree that if they violate any one of these conditions, Amy and Jed will have the right to get the Superintendent or a doorman to restrain them from entering the apartment; and to change the locks.

Read the entire piece at the Wall Street Journal here. 

NBA Finals: Baby ‘Stuff Curry’ and ‘Cry Baby LeBron’ are Taking the Media by Storm (VIDEO)

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Ten month old Landon Benton is an Instagram star with close to 80,000 followers and is affectionately now known as Stuff Curry, after the popular Golden State Warriors player Steph Curry.

The moniker came by accident.

In fact, Landon’s mom, Jessica Benton, didn’t even know of Curry and thought a commenter calling her baby Stuff Curry was being mean like some others who have, unfortunately, criticized her cute cherubic baby’s loveable rolls.  Jessica told ESPN  that she Googled the term and found the NBA star. And the rest is history, as they say.

The Illinois mom has since taken it upon herself to outfit her baby in Warriors jerseys and gear and reclaim and play up the name to the baby’s fans, TODAY reported.

And also since then, baby Benton’s career has taken off. He’s been featured on UK’s DailyMail and other sites.

He recently starred in a spoof of an NBA Finals after game press conference along with another baby cast as  “Cry Baby LeBron on Jimmy Kimmel Live!   The Cleveland Cavaliers 5-time NBA champ and MVP, LeBron James, is dad to our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum, Savannah Brinson James

He and baby LeBron were also part of a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live video/interview too.

Benton’s mom is an advocate against bullying after her older son committed suicide at age 20. He had been bullied as a teen.

? Bullies No Bueno! ? No place for them types around here!! (Tee from @tdotkids) #babylandonlee #stuffcurry

A photo posted by Baby Landon (Stuff Curry™) Lee (@babylandonlee) on

It’s great to see her use Stuff Curry’s new found fame to raise awareness about bullying.  

Behind the scenes:

Watch Janet Jackson’s Stylist Hide Her Bump during Cover Shoot (VIDEO & PHOTOS)

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Before pop icon Janet Jackson made her surprise announcement that she would be giving birth to her first child this year, she did a fabulous photo shoot promoting her new line of diamonds, “Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable Collection”.

I checked out the very fun and electric video of the shoot for Emirates Woman and was taken away by her beauty, energy and signature wide smile.

You would never know this woman is 50-years old!? How?

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 The pregnancy led the multiple award-winning star to put on hold her Unbreakable tour, named after her  lastest album.

According to Jimmy Jam of the R&B songwriting and production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, an associate of Janet Jackson since the 1980s, the album is a testimony to “unbreakable bond with her fans and her family, with her faith and with her friends. And I think it’s an album where you have to live a lot of life in order to really be able to verbalise and lyricise those thoughts.”

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 While checking out the promo video for the shoot, I couldn’t help but notice that her stylist cinched at the waist the jacket of the platinum-selling mega star  in a protective manner, perhaps to hide Jackson’s growing baby bump from the cameras.

The shoot took place on March 21, two months before Jackson made her big announcement.

Who knows!?!

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You’ll also notice that the Muslim singer is covered per her religion  yet is glorious dripping in diamonds from the collection she launched along with business partner Paul Raps of Paul Raps New York.



Jackson and her Qatari billionaire husband, Wissam Al Mana, are expecting their first child together.

Check out these stills and Pics from the shoot and the video. You can see the coverup part at the :33 mark of the video below.

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You Guessed It, Rob & Chyna Are Taping a New Reality TV Show

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A lot of people were predicting this: Rob Kardashian, Jr. and his fiance Blac Chyna (real name Angela Renee White) are filming their first reality show, Variety reports.

The show will be called Rob & Chyna and E! has dubbed the six hour-long episodes the “newest Kardashian.”

It will cover the couple’s “whirlwind romance” as they prep for the impending birth of their first child together.

Chyna has a son named King with her ex-fiance rapper Tyga (real name Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson).

He recently dated Rob’s half sister Kylie Jenner.

She has starred in the hit family reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians throughout its 12 season history since it debuted in 2007. Other shows from the franchise spin-offs include Kourtney and Kim Take New York, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami and Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons; and Khloe & Lamar and I Am Cait.

Ryan Secrest’s production company along with Bunim/Murray (the folks behind the first reality TV show, The Real World series) produce the show. They are also the masterminds behind all of the other Kardashian series.

Rob & Chyna executive producers include Ryan Seacrest, Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Farnaz Farjam, Ailee O’Neill and Kris Jenner.

Rob Kardashian and Chyna also co-exec produce.

 

Brittney Griner’s Ex & Mom to Couple’s Twin Girls, Glory Johnson is back to Dating Men

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We spent a lot of time following the rocky relationship of WNBA‘s Brittney  Griner and ex-wife Glory Johnson. The two got engaged within weeks of having a domestic dispute last April then married a month later. Johnson, got pregnant with twins via artificial insemination only for Griner to file for an annulment before the marriage was even a month old.

Johnson welcomed twin girls Ava Simone and Solei Diem last October, 2015, but Griner denied being their parent.

The Dallas Wings Forward fought back against the Phoenix Mercury star’s claims that she knew nothing about the plans to conceive children. Johnson and won a child support case earlier this year, and Griner was ordered to pay her $40,000 annually.

After all that highly public split, Johnson has moved on and is back to dating men again. Phew!!

She is in a happy relationship with with 30-year-old Christopher Fry, who lives in Seymour, Tennessee – a short distance from her family home in Knoxville, New York Post reports. 

Recall in her petition for an annulment last year, Griner claimed Johnson was cheating on her with man. Hmmm. She probably was on to something back then. doh!

photo collage: Getty/Instagram/NY Post

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