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Bump Watch: Alexis Fields shares belly progression photo on IG

Posted on July 2, 2014

Who’s got next on our Bellytich bumpwatch list? Actress Alexis Fields who got out of bed for a few moments while on bedrest to share this beautiful and awesome belly progression photo to her followers and fans on Instagram! The former Nickelodeon child star captioned the photo:

“My booty won’t get applause like Nicki’s did, but my belly is kinda cool. Look how big it is!!! Underwear by Target. Belly by God. Please don’t degrade this post. Recognize it for what it is. I’m sharing something beautiful that I normally wouldn’t at this stage. #PregnancyIsBeautiful”

So sweet! Yes it is, mama!

Fields, who is best known for her role as Alicia in Moesha, Sharla Morrison in Nickelodeon‘s Keenan & Kel and Nicole Wilson in the The Secret World of Alex Mack, is expecting her second child with her husband Kevin Jackson. They are already parents to daughter Kaycie.

We covered Kim’s sister’s last pregnancy that resulted in her second son, Quincy’s birth last winter.

We’re looking out for a peaceful and safe bed rest, labor and delivery! Hang in there!

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CMT Music Awards Red Carpet

Posted on June 5, 2014

Several of our Bellytich Bumpwatch alums looked radiant last night, June 4, at the CMT Awards held at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.

One of my faves was Lady Antebellum‘s Hillary Scott who finally mixed up her usual black and went with a beautiful and colorful L’Wren Scott dress with Alexander McQueen (homage to designers who committed suicide?). The Brian Atwood heels were a bit clunky but other than that, fab!

Kristen Bell hosted the event and started out the evening on the red carpet in a Fall 2014 Zuhair Murad beaded V-neck evening gown. She later changed into a Monique Lhuiller Fall 2014 embroidered chiffon gown and later the designer’s long sleeved

leather embroidered cocktail dress and two other cute but dark-colored

dress. She looked very nice but could have mixed up the colors ideally.

My fave look was on Jennifer Nettles who wowed in a black sequined embellished Halsotn top with wide-legged Max Mara pants! Fab when accented with Carrera y Carerra jewels and Neil Lane bracelet.

Melissa Rycroft also looked youthful in her flare mini-dress

Nicole Kidman looked quite youtful in an embroidered Giamattista Valli Spring 2014 couture embroidered mini dress which she altered a bit to add length.

Lovely!

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Kerry Washington & 11 Other Celebs who never announced their baby news to press

Posted on May 2, 2014

So the news today is that Scandal star gave birth to her and husband Nnamdi Asomugha first child together, daughter, Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha TWO WEEKS AGO on April 21.

Congrats!

Figures though, right? She never told anyone she was engaged, never publicly acknowledged she was married before getting hitched and so this makes sense to conceal this news about the birth at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, that TMZ uncovered today.

She would not be the first to attempt to just keep it all hush hush.

Actress Neve Campbell never announced when she birthed her first child with hubby JJ Feild in August 2012 until paparazzi captured the family at a park and the baby looked to be about a month old!

Later that year, Megan Fox waited almost a month to announce in October that she had given birth in mid September.

But singer Dido takes the cake! The British crooner welcomed her first child in the summer of 2011 but didn’t mention a baby until 6 months later in a tweet in December that year! We hypothesized that maybe it was our query that perhaps prompted the UK Daily Mail to inquire.

And of male stars, actor Michael Ealy randomly mentioned during an interview on the Steve Harvey show this February that he and his wife of two years had a kid. And the kid is like a few years old.

Same deal with singer Pharell and his wife, Helen. We only recently started seeing pics of his son Rocket Man who is now 5 years old.

Not just births either.

Jennifer Hudson never revealed she was pregnant ever. A wayward cameraman accidentally discovered it when she was about 8 months along.

Same deal with actress Evageline Lily. She too was hiding away in Hawaii to avoid the prodding press when she got busted in her 7 or 8th month trying to avoid the “bumpwatch!”

Adele, Megan Fox, Drew Barrymore and January Jones all never confirmed their pregnancies either until their news leaked when they were well into their pregnancies.

And Now you know it’s not that unheard of that some celebs actually value privacy in these matters. Ha!

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10 Celebrities who DON’T want to have children

Posted on April 29, 2014

Top: Oprah Winfrey, Kim Cattrall, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Chelsea Handler, Bottom: Jay Leno, Ellen Degeneres, Renee Zelwegger, Margaret Cho and Janean Garofolo have all openly said they do not desire to be parents.

Jennifer Aniston was thought to be pregnant again as many gossip sites reported again that she was. Her reps had to deny once again, that she is not.

So many sites, like this one, are all about the celebrity “bumpwatch” and stalking pregnant celebrities’ growing bellies, but there are some that we will never get to do that with.

The Huffington Post assembled a slide show of 12 celebrities who have said they do not want to have children. We’ve put together a collage of 10 best known on the list.

Some like Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney were of no surprise as they’ve been quite vocal about their decision for years now, but there were a few surprises like Renee Zelwegger and Cameron Diaz.

Time magazine’s article “The Childfree Life – Having It All Without Children” this August was the subject of much fodder, chatter and discussions on various blogs, websites and online communities. It is also an interesting discussion either way.

I did a post back in 2010 about the struggles between those that are purposefully child-free and the challenges they face in a world that favors parenting and presupposes most people of child bearing years want to eventually become parents.

Check it out if you can HERE.

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Daphne Oz returns to ‘The Chew’ with new baby, Her Maternity Retrospect in PHOTOS

Posted on April 23, 2014

The Chew‘s Daphne Oz came back to the show after delivering her first child, daughter, Philomena Bijou Jovanovic, in February, 26.

The TV host actually announced the baby’s name on her dad, Dr. Oz’s, show last month, on March 4th and since we didn’t get to really bumpwatch her progression, we’re sharing a retro of her bump progression selfies from Instagram for ya! Philomena is Dr. Oz’s first grandchild.

Congrats Daphne and hubby investment analyst John Jovanovic, who showed up on set to show off baby today. She’s nicknamed Philo or PBJ, in honor of the popular sandwich, perfect for a host of a TV show for foodies. Daphne said picked the middle name Bijou for its French meaning, which translates to ‘jewel.’

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What celeb moms are up to on Instagram (PHOTOS)

Posted on April 19, 2014

We stalk your fave celeb mom who we have Bumpwatched in the past so you don’t have to. So…what is some of our faves up to these days?

Nicole Richie is group selfie pic’ing after a night out with the girls.

Rasheeda is looking Boss and fit and trim while out and about.

Fergie is enjoying a girls night out.

Brandy Norwood is enjoying a Friday night out

Busy Phillips is marveling at her new funky and kinda scary nail art.

Beyonce is showing off her killer abs while prepping for a tour w/hubby Jay Z.

CaCee Cobb and hubby Donald Faison are celebrating pal Zac Braf’s birthday

Gwen Stefani is sharing throwback Thursday photos of herself as a child.

Phaedra Parks is attending a celebrity event with RHOA pal Porsha Stewart

Hillary Duff is having fun going out

Kim Zolciak is marveling at how great her hubby Kroy is at cutting baby nails

Ivanka Trump is showing off her cute babies.

Melissa Joan Hart is celebrating her recent birthday.

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2014 MTV Movie Awards: What JWoww, Mila Kunis, Jessica Alba and Jenna Dewan-Tatum Wore

Posted on April 14, 2014

Some of our Bellyitch Bumpwatch first time moms-to-be and alums hit the red carpet and posed backstage at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards held last night, Sunday April, 14 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California.

TV personality Jennifer “JWoww” Farley snuggled her bump while wearing a jeweled trim black gown and rumored pregnant actress Mila Kunis posed with her “Best Villain” award while looking conspicuously preggers in a black Thakoon shift dress. Kunis is reportedly expecting with fiance Ashton Kutcher.

Meanwhile, Jessica Alba went bold with color and structure in Piece D’anarchive Bordeaux top paired with a Kenzo fall 2014 neon skirt, a clutch by Narciso Rodriguez with Jimmy Choo pumps and Jenna Dewan-Tatum went sheer and black in Pamella Roland.

Fab!

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Celebrity moms rock the ACM red carpet (PHOTOS)

Posted on April 8, 2014

Many of our relatively new Bellyitch Bumpwatch moms looked FABU walking the red carpet to the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada this past Sunday, April 6th. The event, each year, honors the best in country music.

Shakira honored her paternal grandparents homeland by going with Lebanese-born designer Zuhair Murad wearing a stunning midnight gown with black mesh cut out from his Fall 2014 collection.

Jewel went glam in a white with black lace embellishments Georges Chakra dress, Jerome Rousseau shoes, Kotur clutch and Carla Amorin and Doves rings and Doves earrings.

Former child actor and newly married, Jamie Lynn Spears looked youthful in an Aztec print mini dress with red pumps on the red carpet.

Hillary Scott, wearing the Stella McCartney Ray two-tone stretch-cady dress, Tom Ford boots and Kimberly McDonald jewels, posed with her Lady Antebellum bandmates and rock icon Stevie Nicks on the red carpet before later performing on stage.

photos: Starcast, Zimbio

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Pregnant Celebrities who don’t share bump progression pics accused of faking it: The Jwoww Case Study

Posted on April 3, 2014

So this week, Jersey Shore reality TV star of the longtime MTV hit, Jenni “JWoww” Farley teased some of her 3.58 million Twitter followers on an upcoming bump photo. Since the Snooki and Jwoww star announced her pregnancy with fiance Roger Matthews last December, she is yet to share an all-out baby bump photo.

Interestingly enough, the comments to the post she linked with details about a teal one-shoulder Rissa of LaBling dress she wore October 2013 on Chelsea Handler‘s talk show this week piqued accusations that she isn’t really pregnant at all.

“Maybe she is not carrying the baby?? Maybe she has a surrogate?” one named Chloe questioned.

“I bet she faking a preg I think she adopting a baby!!” another named Joan added.

And thus the convo diverted to commentary about whether she is pretending to be pregnant as a publicity stunt.

Recall Danielle Jonas and Kevin Jonas‘ first pregnancy was similarly dogged by similar rumors and infamously Beyonce as well.

One might notice that a sure sign a celebrity woman is pregnant is when she ordinarily posts non-stop selfies of her full body on social media but suddenly shares only face pics. It could be she is uncomfortable with her changing body and not yet figured out how to dress her bump or she is just keeping the news under wraps until the critical first trimester passes.

It may very well be that Jwoww didn’t wait the three months and shared the news immediately and thus has not really started to show much.

The speculation is unwarranted even if she is farther along because many women don’t show until well into their second trimester and others do a great job in hiding the bump under baggy or loose clothing.

This incident may reveal a new disturbing trend among baby bumpwatch fans and followers of celebrities who announce their pregnancy. If they don’t reveal a bump or show a “normal” progression, they may be dogged by fake pregnancy rumors.

What do you think?

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Update on Shakira: Drops new album, Covers “Latina” magazine

Posted on April 1, 2014

One of our latest Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums Shakira dropped her latest, a self-titled album, last week, March 25th.

The new mom has been busy ever since giving birth to her son Milan Pique Mebarak last January 2013. Shortly after welcoming her first child, Shakira did her first stint as a coach-mentor on The Voice replacing a touring Christina Alguilera.

And earlier this month, the Hips Don’t Lie singer debuted on the cover of Latina magazine. Inside it, the Can’t Remember to Forget You singer talks about how motherhood has changed her life.

She tells the magazine that her son helps her with her time management.

“I used to go in circles around an idea, but since he arrived I don’t have much time—I have to rush back home – so he has helped me learn how to focus,” she told the mag.

The sultry and sexy singer is currently engaged to Spanish Football player Gerard Pique, who shares the same birthday though ten years apart. She’s a baby cougar who has said work gets in the way of her birthing a bunch of more babies.

“If it weren’t because of my music projects I would be pregnant already,” the Hips Don’t Lie singer said. “I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard – my own futbol team.”

Funny!

Check out the behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot below:

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