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Kanye West’s Pre Father’s Day and Birthday Celebration in Japan

Posted on June 12, 2017

Kanye West celebrated his 40th birthday on Thursday, June 8 in Asia during a family getaway which his wife, our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum, Kim Kardashian West, captured on Snapchat. In the quick videos, the couple can be seen among minimalist Japanese decor and quite happy too.

The rapper and business mogul gets a bum rap over his controversial comments, stances and decisions. But overall, I think he is a misunderstood genius who is dealing with his own personal demons but unlike most of us, he has to battle them in public.

Being married the the most photographed reality TV mega star doesn’t help but he is fortunate to have the means to escape it all and travel the world to a serene place like Japan.

With Father’s Day around the corner, I like to spend some time recognizing good dads out there so here is a dedication infographic I created as a long time fan of the man.

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12 Times Celebrity Moms Posed ‘Glam Squad While Momming’ Photos in Social Media

Posted on June 5, 2017

Alas, it looks like it now officially a must-do trendy thing for working moms in Hollywood to do: Pose for the official “momming while being serviced by a glam squad” photo.

And…look, Avatar 2 star Zoe Saldana is the latest to join the club!

You do what you have to do to be there…. Haces lo que tienes que hacer para estar ahí. #workingmom #madresquetrabajan
A post shared by Zoe Saldana (@zoesaldana) on May 31, 2017 at 9:34am PDT

The Guardians of the Galaxy actress posted a photo on her Instagram account of her tending to her infant son, Zen, while getting primped and polished for some red carpet event, perhaps. “You do what you have to do to be there…. #workingmom” she captioned the photo in both English and her native Spanish.

Before Saldana did it, the likes of Audra McDonald, Molly Sims, Miranda Kerr, P!nk, Terri Seymour, Ali Landry, Alyssa Milano, and Jessie James Decker have all share social media photos of themselves in the throws of dolling up as a working mom in Hollywood.

Gisele Bundchen may have been the unofficial mother of this genre of photos. When she did it in 2013, the Victoria Secret model she caught a lot of flak for those who said she was being vain and using motherhood to call attention to herself — not just her then-one-year old daughter Vivian Lake.

The Brazilian Supermodel’s famous breastfeeding while getting glam shot was controversial because vanity and “glamity” aren’t supposed to co-exist with motherhood and breastfeeding, socially. Aaaah humbug!

Shameless actress Emily Rossum joined in the fun of criticizing Bundchen by posting a parody of Bundchen’s photos by copying it to a tee using a doll. Okay, Emily. Sure.

But we are able to recognized the value to the image despite what the critics say. In the past, in tinsel town (and Bollywood) getting pregnant and having a family can disrupt a woman’s career but not so much anymore.

As we’ve shared before, motherhood isn’t halting opportunities and production can and do work around a star’s pregnancy. In recent years, many celebrity parents are showing their social media fans that they don’t let motherhood interfere with their work either. They can do both.

Again, since Bundchen’s photo, other celebrity women like LilyAldridge, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Kandi Burruss have shared photos of themselves tending to their babies while getting glammed up for an event.

Here are photos of 12 times when

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Miranda Kerr

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Audra McDonald

Kourtney Kardashian showed off her double-fisting the breast bump before going out.

Jessie James Decker did too.

Alyssa Milano

Ali Landry

Terri Seymour

Molly Sims

Kim Kardashian

Hilaria Baldwin

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Celeb Trend: The Band Tee Never Goes Out of Style

Posted on May 9, 2017

I LOVE a rocker or a band tee and so do a lot of the Celeb women we have”bump watched” in the past.

Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney Kardashian, Kate Hudson and Alessandra Ambrosio have all rocked the band tee well when snapped out and about. (See above collage)

Not only are these chic t-shirts great way to pay homage to a fave performer or band of the present or yesteryear, but they are iconic fashion items that are forever in style.

Sleeveless, long sleeved, under a denim or leather jacket, with a pair of jeans or cropped shorts, they can be mixed and matched in any casual look.

I’ve Insta-shared pics of myself in band tees featuring The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones and more myself. (See collage below)

Cant get enough and my collection continue to grow.

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They’re Like A Lot of Us: 40 Celeb Women Who Had Unwed Pregnancies

Posted on May 3, 2017

Bellyitch Rewind

About 4 years ago, we blogged about how tons of celebrities welcome babies with men they ar not married to and how they, unlike most women, are not shamed for it.

Several, like Heidi Klum and Kelis break up before the baby is even born. The mention is not to bash different lifestyle choices or situations but just to point out the prevalence of premarital pregnancy in Hollywood.

Of the several dozens women Bellyitch has “bumpwatched” since its inception in 2007, the lion’s share or bulk of them were technically single (though possibly attached or engaged) while pregnant.

Also, to a certain extent, these blessings, each of them, are celebrated and cheered. Meanwhile, average non-celebrity women who have children out-of-wedlock are traditionally trashed, bashed and shamed, by society.

It’s a double standard, no doubt. But alas, these are changing times and traditional notions and norms are altering too.

Here is a list of 40 celebrity women ( from our old post in 2013, there have been many more since then) who got pregnant before going down the aisle, including some that didn’t even want a ring, and some that are still happily single (in no particular order):

1. Kim Kardashian

2. Salma Hayek

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4. Amber Rose

5. Victoria Beckham

6. Kelis

7. Emma Bunton

8. Halle Berry

9. Natalie Portman

10. Jennifer Hudson

11. Snooki

12. Lauryn Hill

13. Kristin Cavallari

14. Melanie Brown

15. Heidi Klum

16. Fantasia Barrino

17. Isla Fisher

18. Nia Long

19. Drew Barrymore

20. Yandy Smith

21. Kate Hudson

22. Jill Scott

23. Britney Spears

24. Nicole Richie

25. Kate Winslet

26. Alicia Keys

27. Jessica Simpson

28. Keyshia Cole

29. Michelle Williams

30. Lauren London

31. January Jones

32. Miranda Kerr

33. Kourtney Kardashian

34. Nivea

35. Jamie Lyn Spears

36. Adele

37. Angelina Jolie

38. Kristen Bell

39. Christina Applegate

40. Jane Krakowski

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Easter 2017: How Celebrities Celebrated the Holiday (PHOTOS)

Posted on April 17, 2017

A lot of the celeb moms we’ve featured in the past shared what they did on Easter with their fans and followers on social media. Here is a roundup of some of the fun festivities!

After attending church in Bel-Air, the Kardashian-Jenner clan had an Easter Egg Hunt and Roll with animals. Chrissy Teigen and her daughter Luna were there.

Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (nee Kate Middleton) attended the Easter Day service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor, England.

Kim Kardashian-West shared a family photo of herself, husband Kanye West and their two children North and Saint on her Instagram account. Check out North with the choker and she looks just like her dad.

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Singer Monica also hosted an elaborate Easter Egg Hunt and party at her home. Her daughter Laiyah, outfitted in the cutest hot pink jumpsuit seems pleased. Monica also sparked a bunch of comments speculating that she is expecting in this photo. She too is wearing a paisley off the shoulder jumpsuit that is gapping at the center, creating the illusion of a bump. Whether one is there or not, who knows.

Ashlee Simpson Ross and her daughter Jagger Snow looked cute for Easter outfitted in matching Coachella wear Bohemian Mini-dresses.

Kandi Burruss and son Ace Tucker Wells attended Monica’s Easter Egg Roll and Hunt party too.

Lady Antebellum lead singer Hillary Scott shared a really creative looking aerial shot of herself with her daughter doing Easter activities.

Tamera Mowry-Housley and hubby Adam posed with their kids daughter Ariah and son Aden in their Easter best.

Sadly, over at her sister Tia Mowy Hardrict‘s home, all was quiet because her son Cree was battling strep, her her Instagram post.

Check out Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady‘s daughter Vivian in her bunny ears egg hunting on the beach.

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Victoria Beckham gets in the spirit, donning a bunny mask that looks like the signature bunny on her clothing. She looks great and this is the curviest I’ve ever seen her and they look good on her.

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CaCee Cobb and Donald Faison‘s kids, Wilder and Rocco, posed with the Easter Bunny.

Soleil Moonfrye is certainly blessed as she said, captioning this photo of the Easter bounty she amassed for her children.

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Buffalo Bills’ Reggie Bush and Wife Expecting Third Child

Posted on March 5, 2017

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Congratulation to Buffalo Bills running back Reggie Bush on expecting a third child with wife Lilit Avagyan. Bush famously dated Kim Kardashian for an extended period of time before marrying a woman some say is a dead ringer for Kim.

Avagyan shared the happy news of the impending birth on her private page which was picked up by some gossip blogs and sites, that added salacious news on top of hers.

It looks like #ReggieBush and his wife #LilitAvagyan are still going strong, despite the side baby drama! Would you stay with your husband after he cheated on you and had a baby with the other woman? ?
A post shared by HOLLYWOOD UNLOCKED (@hollywoodunlocked) on Mar 2, 2017 at 10:20pm PST

The announcement comes around the same time a woman claiming to be Bush’s mistress allegedly gave birth to his child but was cut off from “hush money” once she went public with the alleged news, BET.com reports.

The couple are parents to daughter Brisels, 3, and son Uriah, 1.”They both always wanted a big family,” a source told E! News in 2015.

A source told E! News exclusively that Lilit, 29, is in her second trimester and that the two are looking forward having another baby together. She was photographed with a slight bump while exercising recently.

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This Reality TV show alum turned Lifestyle Mogul is the Latest Expecting Laguna Beach Alum

Posted on January 2, 2017

Lauren Conrad is the latest of alums from the MTV reality TV shows Laguna Beach and The Hills to have announce a pregnancy.

The author, blogger and lifestyle maven shared the news on Instagram that she and her husband William Tell are expecting their first child together.

“Happy New Year! I have a feeling 2017 is going to be the best year yet…” she captioned a photo of her sonogram and of course, it was quite dreamy and perfect and quite on brand with her Instagram page with 5.5M followers.

Happy New Year! I have a feeling 2017 is going to be the best year yet…
A photo posted by Lauren Conrad (@laurenconrad) on Jan 1, 2017 at 7:57am PST

Audrina Patridge welcomed her first child, daughter, Kirra Max, early in 2016 and Kristin Cavallari is well ahead of all of them, having given birth to her third child, daughter Saylor James in 2015. She gave birth to her first child, son Camden, in August 2012 and second, Jaxon in May 2014;

Laguna Beach alum Alex Murrel gave birth to a son last July with her spouse and a month later another alum of that show about “the Real Orange County”, named after the hit show The OC ‘s fictionalized portrayal of the posh coastal region, gave birth. Casey Reindhardt and her husband welcomed their first child, a daughter they named Kensington. Christina Schuller (nee Sinclair) welcomed her first child, son Christian Sutton, in 2014. This past September 2016, Morgan Smith (nee Olson) welcomed her second child with her husband, daughter, after giving birth to son Theo in 2014.

One interesting thing I noted of all these births is that they all (minus Cavallari’s first) were with their husbands, not fiances or boyfriends. Says something about how they stick to tradition.

I’ve always admired Conrad for being one of the few people to successfully parlay a reality TV show beginning into a mini empire.

She has written a successful series of young-adult novels and oversees her successful fashion line she co-founded Paper Crown and her popular Kohl’s line, LC by Lauren Conrad.

Our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums who have done the same include Kim Kardashian West, the ultimate media and lifestyle mogul. Tamar Braxton Herbert and Evelyn Lozada have successfully leveraged their fame from reality TV to lucrative subsequent gigs, careers and other ventures. They’re not limited to marketing their online social media presence via sponsored posts or by selling digital products either, a lot of reality TV alums are doing well selling products and partnering with brick and mortar realtors! Good stuff!

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British TV Host Rochelle Humes’s Hosting Gig Forced Pregnancy News Ouster

Posted on November 29, 2016

It turns out that our guesses were right that second-time mom-to-be Rochelle Humes is in her second trimester. The British girl band member who also starred in a one-season E! TV reality TV show, Chasing the Saturdays, told the audience during a taping of the ITV show Loose Women that she was “surprised” her friends kept her pregnancy a secret.

Her husband, Marvin Humes, a former boy band member of the British group JLS and currently a Capital FM DJ said last week that she was close to six months pregnant

They would have waited longer but a TV gig thwarted that plan.

She had to go public with her news because she and Marvin were part of the hosting team for BBC charity telethon ‘Children In Need’ , the Daily Mirror reports, and her stylist told her that she wouldn’t be able to hide her bump on television.

“It’s amazing, [Rochelle] is doing so well and she’s a real trooper. She’s nearly six months – she’s only a week away from being six months,” Marvin told Daily Mail, Marvin. “She looks great and we’re so lucky we’re having a second child,” Marvin added. “We’re really, really excited.”

The couple are parents to 3-year old daughter Alaia-Mai and said they will not find out the baby’s sex until it is born.

“We thought it would be nice to keep it a surprise,” Marvin revealed. “We’re going to wait and see.”

Rochelle, who is a TV host of the British show The Next Great Magician almost found out the news when a psychic to the stars, including to Kim Kardashian West, wrote down the baby’s gender on a card and placed it in an envelope. The host of the show offered to reveal it but Rochelle passed because she suspected the psychic would be right.

Certainly, that would ruin the whole ‘wait and see’ thing for sure.

Watch the exchange:

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Election Tuesday: Hillary Clinton and Celebs Pantsuit Fashion

Posted on November 8, 2016

This Election Tuesday, US Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is responsible for a new fashion trend among her supporters: the Pant Suit. The former First Lady is known for wearing color coordinated monochromatic suits.

They have become an item which has become synonymous with her brand so much so that Beyonce and her backup dancers wore pantsuits during a political rally this weekend in Philadelphia.

Also, a recently created secret Facebook group called Pantsuit Nation has quickly garnered over 1.6M members. They have been posting photos of themselves in pantsuits as they head to the polls today.

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There is a store called Hillary in Kosovo in Easter European former Yugoslavian nation that sells suits which Hillary Clinton herself once visited in 2012.

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We couldn’t help but use the opportunity to point out all the times in the recent past when some of the celeb moms we’ve “bumpwatched” in the past such as Christina Milian, Jessica Alba and Garcelle Beauvais rocked fabulous pantsuits.

Beyonce and her sister Solange, both in hot pink Gucci suits within months of one another. Nicole Kidman looked fierce in a Valentino suit with a caped suit top one year. Jessica Biel wore a Dolce & Gabbana suit matching one worn by her husband Justin Timberlake at his Runner Runner premiere in Las Vegas.

And Angelina Jolie was known for rocking black pantsuits on red carpets when she was happily married to Brad Pitt (RIP Bradgelina). Olivia Wilde looked hot wearing a low cut ensemble at the Rush premiere in London.

Rachel Zoe looked tres stylish in a royal blue satin-trimmed tuxedo suit from her own label to the Giambattista Valli show in Paris in recent years.

Finally, Kim Kardashian did an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman a Saint Laurent black-and-white tuxedo with peep-toe checkered shoes by Givenchy.

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These 6 Celeb Moms win Halloween every Year

Posted on October 30, 2016

Some celebrity moms are known for their annual elaborate Halloween costumes.

We thought we’d share with you our faves and ask which of the following celebrity mom which we’ve featured and “bump watched” in the past does the best Halloween costumes.

Heidi Klum is the Queen and usually goes over the top each year at her annual Halloween party. She is usually unrecognizable, as a human even, some years.

Kelly Ripa has a great time dressing up as fellow celebs each year and she nails it each time.

Kim Kardashian-West usually goes with a sexy version of whatever costume she’s in…no surprise there. Her Wonder Woman, Little Red Riding Hood, Mermaid and Cat Woman costumes were saucy.

When married to ex Jordan Bratman, the diva with powerful pipes and Christina Alguilera dressed in sexy get ups and went as a sexy nurse, sexy cop, and sexy pirate wench. Once she did spooky with a ghost bride and groom.

Fergie also goes way over the top and went as a Toddler in a Tiara one year, Cleopatra another then recently she and hubby Josh Duhamel have done spooky going as Elvira and RiffRaff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Day of the Dead figurines.

No one does super pink and elaborate hot and girly like Bethenny Frankel who dressed as candy one year, Marilyn Monroe another, a sexy roller girl from the 70s and a sexy Hello Kitty! grrrrrr!

Love them all! I don’t know who is the best! You tell us!

Okay! Who rocks Halloween the best!???

photos: Getty, Starcast, Facebook, Instagram, HollyPhotos.com

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