Get the Look: Kourtney Kardashian’s Red Jumpsuit

Posted on September 2, 2015

I am getting ready for my birthday weekend and still scrambling for that perfect outfit to wear to various events I will be attending and using as an excuse to celebrate another year of life.

After watching our Posh Mom Style Icon for 2015 winner Kourtney Kardashian wow in a fire engine red plunging neckline Balmain jumpsuit this past Sunday at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, I think I’m going to shift focus and hunt for a jump suit! She accented the look with a Cartier cuff and gold box clutch.

I usually stick with black because it is so slimming but this mom of three who looks to have been watching her diet and hitting the gym lately have me inspired to go bold! Here are some picks of red jumpsuits I found over at our partners at Shopstyle Collective.

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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is Expecting Twins

Posted on September 1, 2015

Tech industry website TechCrunch reminded us today that although it is Not gossip site TMZ and doesn’t cover celebrity news, it is making an exception in the case of Yahoo! CEO Marisa Mayer who announced today that she and her husband are expecting twins. This is her second pregnancy.

So it’s tech news…sort of.

“Mayer leads a major technology company and is a high-profile woman working in tech, so naturally many of her decisions — and particularly how she balances work and family life — are noteworthy. Certainly, carrying — and then caring for twins — in addition to a highly charged CEO role at a prominent tech company in transition (and raising an another child) is quite the workload.”

TechCrunch doth protest too much, me thinks.

Mayer caught much flak for announcing before the baby was born that she planned to take two weeks maternity leave.

Then, she got even more grief for building a nursery addition to her office so she could take her baby to work.

Thing is, she did this months after banning Yahoo employees from working remotely.

Doh!

It was also an “I told you so” moment for us who didn’t think it would be possible for a woman, who has options and is in a position of power, to just leave her baby after two weeks.

High profile business women like Mayer and Ivanka Trump, who also announced a 2-week maternity leave, usually reverse course after baby comes & realizing that it really isn’t that easy to do, emotionally, if not physically.

They don’t want to be treated differently from their male counterparts so they overlook things like the factbreastfeeding and bonding can’t be done remotely and they, and their baby need time.

As women, they are not like men, at all!

For Mayer, it was disconcerting to some that she later decided to tie her kid to her work, but also perplexing because as CEO, she has flexibility of a luxury that regular employees don’t enjoy.

But in 2013, after she had her first child, she was one of 42 female CEOs, 4.2%, of fortune 500 and 1000 companies.

So back then and now Mayer is held to a different standard.

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R&B Singer Ne-Yo is Expecting and Got Secretly Married Recently

Posted on September 1, 2015

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Ne-Yo got secretly married and is expecting his first child with his fiancee Instagram model Crystal Renay, according to Yahoo! Celebrity.

The R&B singer/songwriter shared the news of the pregnancy on his Instagram account by sharing a photo of Renay holding a photo of Ne-Yo cupping her belly, with the caption “SURPRISE!!!!”.

A source close to the couple that has dated since early last year told ET that the two already tied the knot in a secret ceremony.

He is dad to 4-year old Madilyn Grace Smith and 3-year old son Mason Evan Smith with his former fiancee, actress and reality TV star of Vh1‘s Atlanta Exes Monyetta Shaw.

The news is getting mucho hate in Ne-Yo’s IG comments because Shaw has shared that, when together, the couple decided to no longer have any more children and she went through with having permanent “burning” of her tubes and can no longer have any more children with another man if she wanted, meanwhile he’s having another kid.

Ne-Yo addressed her in a comment saying he has apologized.

Congrats to the baby blessing.

photo: Instagram

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Kim Kardashian Updates & Puts Morning Sickness Ad back Up

Posted on August 31, 2015

Today, Kim Kardashian put back up on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram the morning sickness ad that the US Food and Drug Administration made her take down for failure to state the side effects. She added the missing information about the side effects of the drug and the fact it hadn’t been tested on women with the most extreme form of morning sickness

The makers of Diclegis for extreme morning sickness should actually be glad the FDA stepped in. The amount of press the ad got because it was taken down had surpassed the number of people that follow Kim Kardashian on social media.

It harkens back to the old adage about there not being any such thing as bad publicity.

Anyway, one of my family members in her first trimester of pregnancy and she asked a group of us in an online forum for advice, and several people who are not Kim K fans and followers suggested Diclegis, partially because they had seen it discussed in the news related to the take down. There you go!

Anyway, the family member I’m referencing was also very happy to learn that the side effect to the drug is excess drowsiness because she is already too tired at work, naturally because of the pregnancy. She decided her level of morning sickness is not that severe that she would need to take a drug that would cause additional fatigue. She is going to try traditional relief remedies first. The drug is for women, for whom, traditional methods like changing diet, eating small mini meals, snacking on almonds, taking peppermint, ginger or eating things like preggie pops or wearing sea bands do not work.

Hence, the family member’s experience also exemplified what FDA warned about….the importance of having full disclosure in ads for pharmaceutical drugs.

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2015 VMA Awards Red Carpet & Show Roundup

Posted on August 31, 2015

Tonight was another celeb-studded musical event at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Several of our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums graced the red carpet before the event, took the stage and were nominated for quite a few awards.

Mega star Beyonce Knowles Carter was a no show even though she was nominated for 5 awards for her “7/11” Video (Best Female, Pop, Editing, Choreography, Video of the Year). She won only one for Best Editing.

Jennifer Hudson couldn’t make it either despite being up for the Best Video with a social message award for her song, “I Still Love You.”

On the red carpet, model Lily Aldridge stunned in a black Alexandre Vauthier couture gown with a plunging neckline, Stuart Weitzman shoes, Jen Meyer Jewelry earrings, Anita Ko bracelets, and an Edie Parker clutch.

Britney Spears showed mucho cleavage in a showgirls-esque gold sequined number with cutouts in the tummy.

Kim Kardashian West covered her bump in a long sleeve draped military style dress.

Her sis Kourtney Kardashian was giving up the sexy in a hot pink jumpsuit, fresh off of winning our 2015 Posh Mom Icon award.

Their family’s arch nemeses Amber Rose and Blac Chyna came dressed in matching nude outfits with cartoon caricture lettering featuring all the insulting names that people have called the duo who are headed for an MTV reality TV show this fall.

The show wasn’t without its dramatic moments, of course, including some toxic exchanges between show host Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj who won the Best Rap Video Award for video for “Anaconda“. It was the same video Minaj suggested was deserving for being up for the Video of the Year Award but was slighted because she felt the women featured in the video weren’t thin. Taylor Swift assumed it was a slam against her given all the women in her Bad Blood video were pretty much rail thin and the two had a brief Twitter beef which reeled their fans in on it and was more or less squashed until Cyrus added her two cents during a promo appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Cyrus said Minaj was “not nice”. The rest is history and can be seen on Twitter but since we’re about promoting positivity by and among women, we’ll leave it at that.

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Ciara showed off a new bob in a fringed black outfit and Law and Order‘s Mariska Hargitay made an appearance in all black while walking with the other members of “The #SwiftSquad” from Taylor Swift‘s “Video of the Year” winning video “Bad Blood.”

(Gigi Hadid, Martha Hunt, Hailee Steinfeld, Cara Delevingne, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Serayah, Mariska Hargitay, Lily Aldridge and Karlie Kloss)

My fave look for tonight came from singer Tori Kelly who looked stunning in a a laced long sleeved top tucked in a cute pair of high waisted shorts with a gold clutch and black bowed pumps, with tussled hair to complete the look. Her bronze sheer makeup was flawless. Yassss!

photos: Getty

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Social Media Sunday: What Celeb Moms are Up To on Instagram

Posted on August 30, 2015

It’s Social Media Sunday!

We follow your fave celeb parent and Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum so you don’t have to.

So here is a quick round up of what the ladies we watch are up to on social media these days, in particular, Instagram.

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Jill Scott/Lauren London head to FX, Amber Rose/Blac Chyna MTV Reality TV show Greenlit

Posted on August 29, 2015

Two pairs of Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums are launching or participating in new TV projects this fall.

Lauren London (Entourage) and singer/actress Jill Scott (Nanny Diaries) have signed on to play the part of a mom and sister of Director John Singleton‘s new FX drama pilot Snowfall, set in the 1980s at the beginning of the LA crack cocaine epidemic, the Hollywood Reporter notes.

Scott will play Sharon “Cissy” Saint, main character Franklin ((Damson Idris)’s no-nonsense mother, who, frustrated in both her personal and professional lives, has sacrificed her dreams to give Franklin opportunities she never had.   London, meanwhile, will play Louise Saint, Franklin’s party-girl aunt.

And on the Reality TV front, Amber Rose and Blac Chyna have signed on to star in an MTV reality TV show that follows their lives having exes that are rappers while balancing motherhood, work as party hosts and juggling the fabulous life, TMZ reports.

Both have fractured relationships with the Kardashians. Rose was previously in a long-term relationship with Kim Kardashian West‘s husband Kanye West and Blac Chyna’s son is rapper Tyga’s first child. Tyga is currently in relationship with recently legal Kylie Jenner who just turned 18-years old.

Reports are out there that the two ladies hope their show rivals E!’s Keeping up with the Kardashians.

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Lucy Liu Welcomes first Child via Gestational Carrier

Posted on August 28, 2015

I was just commenting how Lucy Liu is a great advocate for animals and a dog lover the other day. I was also wondering if she was like her Charlies’ Angel co-star Cameron Diaz, who has proclaimed in the past that she never wanted to have kids.

Well, Liu confirmed yesterday, Thursday, August 27, that she is a proud new mom to a son that she welcomed via gestational carrier.

“Introducing the new little man in my life, my son Rockwell Lloyd Liu,” the Elementary star, who had not previously revealed that she was expecting a child via surrogate, wrote in an Instagram photo “In ❤!”

Liu’s rep confirmed the happy news to Entertainment Tonight, adding, “Mom and baby are healthy and happy!”

This is Liu’s first child and it looks like she will be a solo parent.

Congrats to her!!

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RHOA’s Expecting Kandi Burruss Now and Then

Posted on August 27, 2015

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss recently shared a belly progression photo of herself with her husband Tod Tucker, a week after sharing a throwback Thursday photo of herself 13 years ago.

Back then, the singer and Bedroom Kandi biz mogul was expecting her first child Riley, who just turned 13-years old recently.

Burruss also got caught in an unsuspecting snap recently that she also shared on her IG.

Burruss announced last July that she is expecting with Tucker, a production company owner, after a brief struggle with infertility.

Keep up with all that is going on with this petite mom-to-be by following her on her very active Instagram account.

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Announce Your Pregnancy on the Meredith Vieira Show this FALL!

Posted on August 27, 2015

Are you or somebody you know pregnant and looking to make a big splash with the announcement? Whether you are waiting to tell husbands, parents, siblings, in-laws, or close friends, a national daytime talk show wants to help you reveal your big news in a dramatic fashion!

If this sounds like something you, or someone you know might be interested in, please email [email protected] with a your name, contact information, and some details of who you would want to tell, and become a part of this nationally televised, once in a lifetime experience!

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